A snapshot can’t tell you what’s accelerating.
A priority ranked third today might be the thing everyone’s about to be talking about, or the thing that peaked last month and is fading. A static count looks identical in both cases. So you can spec something that’s already declining, or miss something climbing fast because today’s number hasn’t caught up yet.
Circuit shows the lifecycle direction on every priority. You see whether it’s accelerating, emerging, declining or gone quiet — and you act on where it’s heading, not just where it is.
From counts to direction.
Trajectory is derived from how signal moves, not just how much there is.
Circuit tracks how fast signals are arriving for each priority on a 7-day vs 28-day rolling ratio.
A change in how many distinct companies are asking is weighed alongside raw velocity.
An evidence_confidence score on every priority tells you how grounded the underlying signal is.
Each priority is classified into one of six lifecycle states and shown as a badge.
You see the change before it’s a surprise.
The point of trajectory is making the rank legible. Circuit surfaces the lifecycle direction on every row.
Each priority shows one of six states — emerging, active, accelerating, sustained, declining, dormant — rendered as a badge: Accelerating, Emerging, Declining or Gone quiet.
The rank reasoning surfaces how fast signals are arriving, how many distinct companies are asking, and a confidence score. You see the math behind the state, not just a number.
Open a priority and Circuit has already pulled the trajectory state, the evidence confidence, the account spread, the signal velocity and the top quotes — through the /assistant/context/{priority_id} endpoint. The answer is ready before you ask.
The rest of the picture.
Emerging, active, accelerating, sustained, declining, dormant — the full vocabulary of where a priority sits.
Accelerating, Emerging, Declining or Gone quiet on every priority row.
A week-over-week change figure on every priority (±10% WoW).
Detector for sudden jumps in signal volume.
Detector for a positive theme turning negative.
Catch a theme splintering before the cluster goes meaningless.
“Heard everywhere” flag for a theme surfacing in multiple channels within a window.
Today the state badge and the week-over-week change figure surface the direction.
One email when something changed enough to matter.
Asked and answered.
It’s the lifecycle state of a priority — one of emerging, active, accelerating, sustained, declining or dormant — based on signal velocity, account spread and how recently signal arrived.
A trend arrow shows the last move. Lifecycle state shows where the priority sits in its arc, so you can tell something accelerating from something that briefly spiked and is now declining.
Four: Accelerating, Emerging, Declining and Gone quiet. The default active and sustained states show no badge — the absence is the signal that the priority is steady.
Every state is backed by numbers you can see — the signal velocity, the account spread, the evidence confidence. The rank isn’t a black box; the reasoning is on the row.
Spike alerts, sentiment-flip alerts, topic-drift detection and cross-source corroboration are on the roadmap. Today, the lifecycle state and the week-over-week change figure are what’s live.