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A find is only as current as its most neglected axis
Evidence younger than ninety days counts at full strength and decays towards a floor at one year — and a find's age is the age of its weakest leg.
Every candidate product is scored on three axes, and each has to stand on its own dated sources rather than on an aggregate. Urgency: is there a reason to buy this now rather than later. Scarcity: is supply constrained in a way a buyer can feel. Feasibility: can this actually be sourced, shipped and sold. A product below the floor on any leg ranks last. It is not silently removed, because a founder deserves to see what was rejected and why.
The change here is how age is computed. For each leg the engine takes its freshest source, then takes the oldest of those three. A find is therefore only as current as its most neglected axis — no amount of fresh scarcity evidence rescues a feasibility case that has gone quiet for a year.
Evidence younger than ninety days counts at full strength and decays towards a floor at one year. The effect is that the engine downgrades its own confidence as its inputs go stale, rather than holding a confident position until somebody corrects it.
Three refusals sit alongside this and did not change. A product with no real photograph is not served, because a company logo is not a product photo and a placeholder standing in for one is a fabrication. A product without a specification precise enough to distinguish it from its neighbours is withheld, because a price matched against it might belong to something else. And evidence is retrieved, never predicted: where a source will not answer, the find says so and names retrieval as our failure rather than the market's.
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