03 · Contenders
Seven live challengers.
C1 is the strongest pressure on rank 05, but no challenger promotes itself. Each must pass its own condition and the portfolio must be rerun if several ranks fall together.
C1Contender · NEW
App-store fee steering
C1NEWE0–E1Promotion gateNot top fiveNo auto-promotionSchedule required
Promotion condition. Promote if mv_vpn_fees confirms a controllable fee line near the E0 estimate of €13.6k per month and a consent-safe steerable cohort.
Why it is outside the five. Forty-four percent of revenue is outside current attribution; savings, customer friction and platform constraints are unmeasured.
C2Contender · NEW
Play RTDN payment recovery / Nigeria cell
C2NEWE0–E1Promotion gateNot top fiveNo auto-promotionSchedule required
Promotion condition. Promote if Google_events or google_subscription_lifecycle shows material preventable grace or hold loss with positive contribution.
Why it is outside the five. The 60% recovery statement and the 37% paid-cycle decline are leads, not an eligible cohort or causal mechanism.
C3Contender · PRIOR
B2B/team VPN packaging
C3PRIORE0–E1Promotion gateNot top fiveNo auto-promotionSchedule required
Promotion condition. Promote if person and device evidence survives reseller and fraud controls and a buyer shows willingness to pay.
Why it is outside the five. The heavy-account signal belongs to rank 04; packaging is a separate offer hypothesis.
C4Contender · PRIOR
Residential Vantage
C4PRIORE0–E1Promotion gateNot top fiveNo auto-promotionSchedule required
Promotion condition. Promote when a named buyer, price, consent basis and reliability threshold coexist.
Why it is outside the five. Existing supply does not prove demand; provenance is an ingredient, not another pool.
C5Contender · PRIOR
Plan migration
C5PRIORE0–E1Promotion gateNot top fiveNo auto-promotionSchedule required
Promotion condition. Promote when a specific alternative offer improves incremental contribution after refund and tenure controls.
Why it is outside the five. The long-plan refund cell is NO_ACTION and does not prove that migration works.
C6Contender · PRIOR
Key Maker external product
C6PRIORE0–E1Promotion gateNot top fiveNo auto-promotionSchedule required
Promotion condition. Promote when a named buyer, price and repeatable external decision job exist.
Why it is outside the five. The current control layer may be internal machinery rather than the product.
C7Contender · PRIOR
Crypto-native Access Wedge
C7PRIORE0–E1Promotion gateNot top fiveNo auto-promotionSchedule required
Promotion condition. Promote if the bounded demand smoke test passes within its catalyst window.
Why it is outside the five. There is no demand evidence; the node-runner audience is a channel, not a separate opportunity.