AI Procurement Pulse Kinetic Gain Research · Quarterly

AI Procurement Pulse → Issue #2 → Issue #3

ISSUE #3 · MAY 2026 · DRIFT SOAK

Three days. 350 domains. Zero drift.

Issue #3 is not a quarterly update — it's a three-day soak test of the same 350-vendor universe behind Issue #2. The crawl re-runs; the publisher count holds at one; every per-vertical rate matches to the basis point. The instrument is calibrated, the baseline is durable, and the first true quarterly delta begins August 2026.

The drift summary

Same universe, same probe, same scoring — three days later. 0 domains newly publishing. 0 domains stopped publishing. 0 score changes. The rate Issue #2 reported (0.29% headline, 25% Reference vertical, 0% everywhere else) is intact. This is the publishable evidence that Issue #2's number wasn't a probe artifact.

0
universe Δ (domains added)
0
publishing-any Δ
0%
publication-rate Δ
0
avg-score Δ
0
newly publishing domains
0
domains that stopped
Why measure drift on a 3-day window? The Pulse is designed to catch real adoption signal, not stochastic probe noise. A short-interval re-crawl is the only way to separate the two before the quarterly cadence hands you a single noisy number. Issue #3 is the calibration step — proof that Issue #4's quarterly delta will report adoption, not measurement variance.

What hasn't changed

350
vendor domains in the universe
18
verticals tracked
1
domain publishing any Suite document
0.29%
aggregate publication rate
11
documents found (all kineticgain.com)
0
ed25519-verified documents

The one publisher is still kineticgain.com — the author of the eleven specs, scoring 100/100, first off the Zero Baseline. Every other vertical (AI Platform, EdTech, HealthTech, FinTech, Enterprise SaaS, Data, Observability, Identity, Legal AI, CX/Support AI, Dev Tools, Marketing AI, HR AI, Retail, Government, Insurance AI, Automotive / Robotics) still reads 0% — both at headline and per-spec level.

What changes between now and Issue #4

Issue #4 (planned August 2026) is the first true quarterly delta — three months of buyer pressure and vendor reaction compressed into one number. Between now and then:

  • Sign the dogfooded documents. The eleven kineticgain.com files exist but read as unsigned by the verifier shipped in Issue #2. Issue #4 ships them with ed25519 signatures so the first verified row appears.
  • Push the universe past 500 domains. The ~1,200-domain Fortune 500 + top-100 K-12 EdTech + top-50 HealthTech AI target is the long arc. Issue #4 lands the next 150 toward it.
  • Add a procurement-side cohort. Districts and enterprises that publish a Procurement Decision Card become buyer-side counterparts to the vendor universe — and a leading indicator: when buyers cite specs, vendors publish them.
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