How products actually live in the wild.

Watch how products live, fail and get hacked in the wild — workarounds, emerging niches, retiring categories. Build the next SKU on what people actually do, not what surveys say they intend to.

CPG DTC retail buyers
— PAIN SOLVED · OPPORTUNITY WHITESPACE

See the gap between what they do and what you sell.

06 / OPPORTUNITY WHITESPACE
Whitespace map · what they do vs. what you sell
12 categories · 30d rolling · $128M unshipped
bubble size · mention volume
momentum
declining growing
— SIGNAL · OPPORTUNITY WHITESPACE

Where you don't sell yet, but they already buy.

Every dot is a workaround your customers are doing right now. The bottom-right quadrant is what your shelf does not sell against behaviour that's already mainstream. That gap is your next SKU — and the size of the dot is how many people are waiting for you to ship it.

$128M
Total unshipped demand · 12mo
+248%
Portion control · 30d momentum
4
Whitespace SKUs ready to brief
$22M
Cut candidate · family-size frozen
— PAIN SOLVED · WORKAROUND GRAPH

A continuous read on what your customers actually do.

verilian.console
workaround graph
cohort matrix
briefs / new
● live SP 0.88
Top workarounds · live ranking
SP 0.88 · 30d
01
Freezer-meal portion control
0.88
+248%
02
Refillable razor cartel
0.84
+112%
03
GLP-1 friendly snacks
0.81
+96%
04
DIY skincare repacking
0.75
+58%
05
Costco-to-portion repack
0.68
+34%
06
Capsule wardrobe dupes
0.62
+22%
07
Reusable bottle swaps
0.58
+18%
08
Bundle-break unboxing
0.54
−3%
De-identified customer quotes
grouped by cohort
meal-prep · suburban · 28-34
"I started portioning Costco lasagna into 18 silicone trays. Saved $140/mo."
GLP-1 patient · urban · 35-44
"None of the snack aisles work anymore. I just buy almonds and split them."
skincare · urban · 18-24
"Why isn't there a Stasher-but-portioned product yet? I made one with silicone."
family · rural · 45-54
"My fridge has 14 little containers. CPG, why do you still sell me a brick?"
working parent · suburban · 35-44
"Refillable razors — I've been doing it for two years. Why is no brand normal about this?"
Category pressure & emerging niches
90d pressure · 7d niches
Category pressure · 90d
Snack aisle
38%
−14
Personal care
44%
−9
Frozen meals
26%
−22
Refill / DIY
72%
+18
Mass beauty
31%
−11
Indie DTC
64%
+8
Emerging niches · 7d
Portion-control hacks
+248%
0.88
GLP-1 friendly snacks
+96%
0.81
Refillable razor cartel
+112%
0.84
DIY skincare repacking
+58%
0.75
Capsule wardrobe dupes
+22%
0.62
Concept graph · "freezer-meal portion control"
expanding ontology
— PAINS WE SOLVE

What teams in consumer actually struggle with.

P/01

Surveys measure intent, not behavior

Stated preferences barely correlate with what shows up in baskets six months later.

P/02

Workarounds signal unmet demand

When people hack, repurpose, or DIY around a product — that's a category waiting to be built.

P/03

Niches emerge before they're named

Every breakout SKU was a small niche obvious to no one but the buyers themselves.

— USE CASES

How Verilian deploys here.

U/01

Workaround Graph

Map how customers DIY, repurpose, hack and bundle products — surfacing latent SKUs and adjacent categories.

U/02

Emerging Niche Radar

Detect new consumer cohorts and use-cases months before they reach trade press or category data.

U/03

Retiring Category Alerts

Identify when a category is being abandoned, downgraded, or substituted — and what's replacing it.

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