
The Opportunity Lab
The Negative Space: How to Read the Signal That Isn't There
Every source in the standard playbook is presence-based — a posting went up, a feature shipped, a customer complained. But the loudest tell in a market is often something that stopped. Here's how to find absences, how to tell abandonment from satisfaction, and why a snapshot can never show you one.
Jul 15, 2026 · 7 min read



