The demand map

Humanity's demand,measured.

Capitalism is a demand-and-supply matching system — so before making what people want, detect what they want. You can't ask (stated preference lies), but every real want leaks a costly signal: money spent, money bet, wages offered, queues joined, suffering endured. We triangulate those signals per problem; no single number can move the ranking alone.

● 14 signals live from open statistical APIs · refreshed daily · every cell cites its source

The power law of demand

Demand is not uniform. It falls off a cliff.

Every problem's composite demand score, ranked. The head of this curve is where the market's pull is strongest — match supply there and the market does the rest of the work for you.

hover a bar · click it to open the problemtop 3 = 28% of measured demand

The demand matrix

Seven currencies of demand, one problem at a time.

A demand signal's credibility is proportional to the cost of emitting it — so we read burden, willingness to pay, capital, research, policy, expert priors, and queues, and require at least two independent classes to agree. Attention is deliberately excluded: it measures crowding, not demand.

Problem	Burden	WTP	Capital	Research	Policy	Expert	Queues	Score
Extreme poverty								93
AI safety & alignment								87
Infectious disease (malaria, TB, HIV)								84
Energy abundance								82
Biosecurity & pandemic preparedness								81
Low-cost housing & construction								79
Longevity & aging								77
Climate change								77
Pedagogy at scale								73
Scientific productivity								73
Fertility decline & demographic stagnation								73
Loneliness & social isolation								71

signal strength, weak → stronglive API feedno credible signal yet — class drops from the blend

hover a cell to inspect the signal behind it — every number cites its source

Where the numbers come from

WHO Global Health Observatory ↗

feeds: burden · Open OData API, no key · rolling, per indicator

Our World in Data ↗

feeds: burden · Open chart-data API, no key (CC BY 4.0) · continuous, tracks upstream sources

NIH RePORTER ↗

feeds: research · Open API, no key · weekly

openFDA Drug Shortages ↗

feeds: queues · Open API, no key · daily

World Bank WDI ↗

feeds: scale series (problem pages) · Open API, no key · quarterly

Coming online next: IHME GBD burden (bulk load), SEC EDGAR Form D + NIH award dollars (capital & research $), USAspending (policy), and Exa Agent extraction of queue signals with no API — grid interconnection backlogs, housing vacancy, transplant waitlists.

Demand is step zero. Matching is the business.

Once you can see the power law, the play is to find the gap — high demand, thin supply — and put yourself in the middle of the match.

Find the gap → the Radar Match yourself to it → Your Fit Build or fund it → Requests

Weekly whitepaper drop

One problem.One whitepaper. Every week.

Each week we ship a deep-dive whitepaper on a top-ranked humanity-scale problem — built in the spirit of Musk’s Hyperloop Alpha and the transformer paper. Problem + market size + before/after vision + a proposed solution + the investors who would back it. Humanity’s Requests for Startups, sourced and sorted quantitatively. No spam. No marketing.

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the three routings

1 · weekly whitepaper

one humanity-scale problem per week, deep-dived to whitepaper depth. ships every monday.

2 · founder → problem match

if you’re building, we’ll route you toward the problem and capital stack you fit.

3 · allocator → deal flow

if you’re deploying capital, curated quest-mapped deal flow in the domains you care about.