Product opportunity catalogue

This catalogue distinguishes facts, inferences, and opportunities. It is based on local source docs inspected in the Meridian Works workspace.

SaaS product opportunities

SiteIntel Website Smoke Alarm

Opportunity: A paid monitoring product that watches homepage/key-page availability, TLS, DNS, robots, sitemap, noindex, schema, PageSpeed, measurement tags, and important public changes.

• User/customer: Small business owners, agencies, marketers, developers.
• Problem solved: Owners do not know when obvious public website signals break or change.
• Existing capabilities: SiteIntel task registry, source workers, findings model, report story, raw artefact boundaries.
• Missing capabilities: Workspace/account lifecycle, schedules, alert delivery, billing, finding lifecycle hardening.
• Data sources needed: Existing SiteIntel free sources, PageSpeed, optional DataForSEO, email delivery.
• Monetisation/public value: Freemium one-off check, paid monitoring, agency portfolio plans.
• Difficulty: Medium.
• Strategic fit: Very high.
• First useful version: Save one domain, monitor homepage and 5 high-signal checks weekly, email only high-confidence owned-domain alerts.
• Risks/blockers: Cost controls, false positives, SSRF/crawl abuse, noisy alerts.

Trackpal Agency Spend Monitor

Opportunity: A private-beta SaaS for agencies tracking client spend, budget pacing, sync health, and simple alerts across ad platforms.

• User/customer: Small marketing agencies and account managers.
• Problem solved: Agencies need to see overspend/underspend and disconnected accounts without building dashboards.
• Existing capabilities: Trackpal template system, metric catalogue, private-beta apps, sync worker, provider registry, admin operations.
• Missing capabilities: Production OAuth approvals, robust provider sync, notifications, billing later.
• Data sources needed: Manual budgets, Google Ads, Meta Ads, Shopify/Klaviyo later.
• Monetisation/public value: Paid agency SaaS after beta.
• Difficulty: Medium.
• Strategic fit: High.
• First useful version: Manual/demo budgets plus Google Ads read-only sync for one agency and a few clients.
• Risks/blockers: Provider approvals, OAuth, scope changes, API quota, dashboard-builder creep.

BigQuery Atlas Change Intelligence

Opportunity: Dataset/schema change monitoring for public BigQuery projects.

• User/customer: Data engineers, researchers, analysts, public-data users.
• Problem solved: Public BigQuery datasets change quietly; users need alerts, history, and context.
• Existing capabilities: Candidate crawler, public cataloguer, D1/R2 read cache, Postgres backend, cautious validation.
• Missing capabilities: Alerting, user watchlists, stable historical diff UI, email/API delivery.
• Data sources needed: Existing candidate/search providers, BigQuery metadata APIs.
• Monetisation/public value: Freemium public catalogue, paid watches/API, public-good data freshness index.
• Difficulty: Medium to high.
• Strategic fit: High.
• First useful version: Watch known public projects for table/schema changes and publish weekly digest.
• Risks/blockers: BigQuery permissions, quotas, large projects, D1 scale evidence.

DataStitcher Public Data Products

Opportunity: Build multiple public-data products from the same ingestion/registry/mart platform.

• User/customer: Small businesses, civic researchers, analysts, journalists.
• Problem solved: Public datasets are too hard to turn into useful dashboards.
• Existing capabilities: CKAN connector, semantic registry, GCS/BigQuery pipeline, business/environment app samples, public audit source scaffold.
• Missing capabilities: End-to-end source pipelines, public UX, freshness SLAs, publication review.
• Data sources needed: Data.gov.au, ABR/ATO/ABS/ASIC/ACNC and other official feeds.
• Monetisation/public value: Free tools, paid exports/API, lead magnets, civic public-good dashboards.
• Difficulty: High.
• Strategic fit: High.
• First useful version: One business regional metric dashboard with source caveats and generated docs.
• Risks/blockers: Data quality, region/privacy policy, source-specific parsers, legal wording.

Bollocks Radar Claim Radar

Opportunity: A public claim-search and fact-check evidence product with possible API/widget surfaces.

• User/customer: General public, journalists, educators, platform moderators, communicators.
• Problem solved: People need source-attributed claim checks before sharing.
• Existing capabilities: Google Fact Check ingestion, verdict mapping, publisher sweeps, claim clusters, safe source metadata.
• Missing capabilities: Polished public UI, ranking/trends, source diversity, moderation/legal review, careful wording.
• Data sources needed: Google Fact Check, publishers, GDELT/DataForSEO/YouTube/Wikidata later.
• Monetisation/public value: Public-good tool, API/widget, sponsorship, media/research support.
• Difficulty: Medium to high.
• Strategic fit: Medium to high.
• First useful version: Search current fact-check reviews with disclaimers, source links, and clear "unknown" state.
• Risks/blockers: Defamation/reputational risk, false confidence, source bias, API coverage.

Small public/free tools

Idea	Existing support	First useful version	Strategic value
Website Smoke Alarm free check	SiteIntel	One domain, 5 checks, shareable summary	Lead magnet for SiteIntel SaaS
BigQuery Public Dataset Lookup	BigQuery Atlas	Search known public projects/datasets and show schema summary	Lead magnet for change alerts
Search Before You Share	Bollocks Radar	Claim text search against Google Fact Check cache	Public-good trust tool
ABN/Postcode Business Snapshot	DataStitcher	Aggregate ABN/business metrics by postcode with caveats	Public-data showcase
Codex Cost Snapshot	Codex Sessions Analyser	Local report over last 7/30 days of sessions	Developer utility and portfolio proof

Internal accelerators

Idea	Existing support	Missing capability	Payoff
Works Ingestion Contracts	DataStitcher, SiteIntel, BigQuery Atlas, Bollocks Radar	Shared contract package and validation	Faster reliable ingestion products
Admin Operations Blueprint	Trackpal, Hub, SiteIntel, DataStitcher	Reusable view models and components	Less repeated admin UI work
Product Dossier Publisher	Product docs and Product Compass	Capability/reuse inventory conventions	Better AI context and Compass generation
Provider/Secret Status Surface	Trackpal, Hub, Meridian deployment	Shared status vocabulary and component	Safer operator workflows
AI Agent Productivity Loop	Codex Sessions Analyser, Hub, Compass	Redacted safe aggregation and dashboards	Evidence-backed instruction/tooling improvements

Public-good and civic/data tools

Idea	Existing support	Why it matters	Caution
Public Audit Source Explorer	DataStitcher public audit sources	Help users find official public records without inflammatory labels	Must use evidence wording, not accusations
Civic Dataset Freshness Monitor	BigQuery Atlas and DataStitcher	Show stale or changed public datasets	Need source-specific caveats
Claim Source Attribution Widget	Bollocks Radar	Embed source-backed claim context	Must avoid truth claims from no match
Public Domain Safety Signals	SiteIntel bulk/security feeds	Aggregate public domain risk/reference signals	Avoid false positives and raw feed leakage

Data products and APIs

Idea	Existing support	First API/widget
Public BigQuery dataset metadata API	BigQuery Atlas	Project/dataset/table/search endpoint backed by D1/R2
Domain enrichment API	SiteIntel	Canonical domain, public suffix, visible homepage signals, last check
Business/regional metric API	DataStitcher	Postcode/industry aggregate metrics with caveats
KPI template definitions API	Trackpal	Template/metric catalogue for internal app reuse

Sources consulted

• projects/site-intel/docs/overview/product/saas-product-strategy.mdx
• projects/trackpal/docs/product/00-executive-summary.md
• projects/trackpal/docs/product/reference/template-catalog.md
• projects/bq-atlas/docs/overview/product-positioning.md
• projects/data-stitcher/README.md
• projects/data-stitcher/docs/public-audit-sources.md
• projects/bollocks-radar/docs/overview/product/product-vision.mdx
• projects/codex-sessions-analyser/README.md