The global opportunity for AI-driven matching platforms like Cosolvent to unlock value in thin markets and long tail B2B segments represents a $3-5 trillion annual transaction value opportunity, with potential to capture $200-400 billion in incremental revenue through improved market…
Cosolvent is not a finished product. It’s an experiment—an open-source playground designed to test the possibilities and limits of AI-enhanced market matching. The Unknowns: These are open questions. Cosolvent is being released not as a polished solution, but as a…
World grain trade is dominated by large international grain trading companies who orchestrate massive shipments of bulk grains. To pay for that, grain companies typically buy the grain outright from the producers and sell it on to the eventual buyers.…
Thin Market Characteristics Assessment Information Asymmetry: HIGH Complex Matching Criteria: VERY HIGH Scattered Participants: MODERATE Economic Viability Analysis Transaction Value vs. Platform Costs: STRONG Friction Cost Reduction: VERY HIGH Risk Mitigation Value: EXTREMELY HIGH Revenue Model Potential Pricing Power: STRONG…
It’s early days, but Cosolvent’s approach to using AI to facilitate thin markets has a vast range of potential applications. Here is a list of 100 potential uses. Cosolvent probably won’t be asked to address many of them, but…
(Mostly sourced through Claude Sonnet 4.0) Western Canadian grain producers can capture significant premiums by targeting specialty markets through identity-preserved container shipping, with opportunities ranging from 10-40% price premiums over commodity pricing. The research reveals substantial financial opportunities across multiple…
As powerful as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can be, they come with real risks—especially when applied to market matching in thin and high-stakes environments. Common Risks: How Cosolvent Minimizes These Risks: Cosolvent’s approach blends automation with…
When Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth identified “thin markets” as a fundamental economic challenge, he highlighted a problem that has plagued commerce for centuries. These markets, where buyers and sellers are widely scattered and have difficulty finding each other, represent…
Question: One of the characteristics of an ai enhanced market website is that it is easy to spontaneously make galleries with subgroupings based on subtle criteria. There is a phenomenon for stores in older cities where small stores selling similar…
There are a lot of considerations that determine whether a given type of “market” is a good candidate for AI assistance (aka application of Cosolvent). No market will score high on every metric, but a lot of markets may have…
