(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 “thin market” is a good candidate for AI assistance. No market will score high on every metric, but a lot of markets may have enough of these…
Bulk Shipping (Through Grain Traders) Pros: Cons: Container Shipping (Direct to Premium Markets) Pros: Cons: Current Market Context (2024-2025) Favorable Container Trends: Cost Considerations: Strategic Implications for Premium Western Canadian Grain Your GrainPlaza concept appears well-positioned to capitalize on the…
I’ve been working through stuff I accumulated over the years and every so often, a forgotten nugget pops up. From 1985 to 1992, an automotive trade magazine (Chilton’s Automotive Industries – now Automotive Industries) sponsored an competitive event that pitted…
This is a reposting of a blog article and corresponding PDF White Paper that I wrote in April, 2015. Click the following image to view the original PDF White Paper in a popup window. [dflip id=”11161″][/dflip] Problem Statement Figure 1…
Please take a moment to watch a bit of the following video: A LOT of things in this scene might be worth measuring: The information to estimate answers to these questions is evident in the clip … but you have…
I was a late convert to Twitter. I dabbled about a year ago and then I discovered that Ukraine war news appeared there first. Everyone in the media, government and big business already seemed familiar with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok…
