trends-bridge

TIPS-Portfolio Bridge

Bidirectional flow between cogni-trends trend analysis and cogni-portfolio product messaging. This is the operational link between the "Value/Sales" side (TIPS) and the "Services/Best Practices" side (Portfolio) — connecting trend-driven insights to concrete product positioning and go-to-market.

Why This Matters

Without the bridge, TIPS and Portfolio are two separate worlds:

• TIPS identifies what matters (trends, implications, ranked solutions) but doesn't touch products.
• Portfolio structures what you sell (features, propositions, pricing) but doesn't know why it matters.

The bridge connects them: trends inform which features to prioritize, ranked solutions become new features or enrich existing ones, and portfolio constraints guide solution generation.

Prerequisites & Validation

Every bridge operation runs a pre-flight check before doing any work. The goal is to catch data gaps and industry mismatches early — before wasting time on an export or import that will produce poor results.

The pre-flight has two parts: a shared check (project discovery + industry alignment) that runs for every operation, and operation-specific validation gates (hard gates block, soft warnings continue). Industry alignment uses a 4-tier heuristic (exact / vertical / broad / none) so cross-industry intent can still be confirmed explicitly when needed.

See references/validation-gates.md for the full heuristic and gate lists.

Operations

status — Check Bridge Readiness

/bridge status

Quick readiness check without running any operations. Use this to see whether your data is ready before committing to a full bridge run.

Step 1: Discover & Validate

Run the shared pre-flight (project discovery + industry alignment). Report results but do not block on warnings — status is purely informational.

Step 2: Portfolio Readiness

Count portfolio entities and report:

Portfolio: {slug}
  Products:     {N}  ✓ (or ✗ if 0)
  Features:     {N}  ✓ (or ✗ if 0)
  Propositions: {N}  ✓ (or — if 0)
  Markets:      {N}  ✓ (or — if 0)
  Solutions:    {N}  (info only)