Editorial policy

How Skim HQ turns public signals into opportunity briefs.

This policy explains what we look for, what we avoid, and how readers should interpret source-backed business idea research.

Selection

Signals must point to buyer pain

We prioritize public evidence of workflow friction, budget pressure, procurement intent, regulation, hiring, or repeated operator complaints.
We avoid publishing ideas that are only trend labels, generic market summaries, or unsupported “AI for X” claims.
We separate early signals from validated demand and make that distinction visible in the brief.

Scoring

Opportunity scores summarize fit, urgency, and execution clarity using available signals.
Every score can be wrong when market conditions, buyer priorities, or source quality changes.
Nothing in Skim HQ is financial, investment, legal, procurement, or professional advice.

Corrections

If a source is stale, unavailable, or materially misread, we update or remove the affected claim when we verify the issue.
Subscriber-only labs may expose more source context than public previews, but public pages should not imply certainty that the underlying signal does not support.
Correction requests should include the page URL and the specific claim in question.

Source handling

Public sources are treated as evidence inputs, not as final proof that a business should be built.
When a page uses procurement, grant, trend, or location data, the copy should explain what the signal can support and what it cannot support.
If a source is an API, registry, or public database, Skim HQ favors stable public landing pages for crawler-facing links and keeps implementation endpoints out of ordinary reader navigation.

Reader use

Use the public pages to compare categories, buyer language, and possible first wedges before spending time on outreach or product work.
Use the sample digest to inspect the brief format, scoring language, and source framing before subscribing.
Use Labs only after a signal looks worth testing; Labs is for organizing assumptions and evidence, not for implying that every idea is ready to execute.

Independence

Skim HQ sells access to research software and subscriber workflows; it does not sell placement inside the idea archive.
Pages may link to official sources, public data providers, and Skim HQ subscription flows, but those links do not change the research conclusion.
When a page is thin, stale, or unsupported by enough source context, it should be improved, redirected, or removed from indexable surfaces.

Proof format

The sample digest shows how Skim HQ labels buyer pain, source context, scoring, and first wedges in practice.