Which Industries Win by 2033, and How to Tell
A two-question screen for quantum advantage by 2033, worked through nitrogen fixation and derivative pricing, plus what would change the answer.
A Field Guide to Misleading Quantum Marketing
Quantum vocabulary moves procurement budgets, and marketing has noticed. The two shapes a bad claim takes, four questions that tell them apart, and what…
What Early Quantum Buyers Are Actually Paying For
Current quantum computers can't beat a laptop on real work, yet governments and enterprises keep buying them. Which justifications hold up in a business…
What Vendors Do When You Ask Hard Questions
A technical question deserves a technical answer. When a quantum security vendor substitutes something else, the substitution is your finding. A field guide to…
Evaluating a Quantum Company: The Technology
Qubit count is the easiest number to quote and the least informative. A working guide to the metrics, modalities, and manufacturing questions behind a…
Evaluating a Quantum Company: The Business
Technology diligence tells you whether the machine can be built. Commercial diligence tells you whether the company will still be there when it is.…
Evaluating a Quantum Company: The Claims
A quantum performance claim is scoreable when five things are present: the unit, the population, the conditions, the baseline, and the witness. Here is…
How to Read a Quantum Patent Portfolio in Diligence
A patent count is the easiest number in a quantum pitch deck to produce and close to the least informative. Here is what to…
The Diligence Questions Behind Quantum Commercialization Claims
Quantum ventures attract two bad reflexes: reflexive dismissal and reflexive enthusiasm. Both skip the same checks. Here is what an investor can actually verify…
A Baloney Detection Toolkit for Quantum Claims
Overstated quantum claims rarely contain a lie. They swap one thing for a similar-sounding thing. Six substitutions, and the questions that catch each one.