Signal

Field notes from the
intelligence layer.

Dispatches on physical-space analytics, AI search visibility, and product-market intelligence — written by the Moonlight team.

Janus convenience store intelligence overlay showing staff and customer tracking
Physical space June 12, 2026 7 min

How a convenience store found +53% promo dwell — without changing a single display

A case study in location intelligence: how Janus separated staff movement from shopper dwell, isolated the promo zone, and surfaced a lift that conventional foot-traffic counters couldn't see. The answer was in the camera feed all along.

Launch Sentinel product explorer interface
Product markets June 9, 2026 5 min

79,573 products and the 12 breakouts that changed everything in Q2

Signal scoring across the corpus surfaced 12 genuine breakouts this quarter — here is how the liveness probes and press-velocity models spotted them before the noise did.

Caposeo AI citation tracking dashboard
AI search June 5, 2026 6 min

4 answer engines, one workspace: what we learned tracking 12.4K keywords across Google and AI

When you track the same keywords on Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini simultaneously, the divergence is striking. A breakdown of what Caposeo's unified workspace reveals about modern search fragmentation.

Janus restaurant table dwell tracking
Physical space May 28, 2026 5 min

The table-dwell problem: why restaurants are flying blind on their best metric

Table dwell time tells you more about service quality and covers per hour than any POS metric — but almost no operator tracks it. A look at how Janus achieves +22% table dwell measurement accuracy by separating staff movement from genuine guest time.

Caposeo SEO and AI search visibility platform
AI search May 21, 2026 8 min

AEO is not SEO with a different acronym — and most tooling gets this wrong

Answer engine optimization has distinct signals, different latency curves, and a citation model that doesn't map cleanly onto Google's link graph. Here is why existing SEO platforms miss the point — and what a unified health score of 87 actually measures.

Launch Sentinel terminal and signal data view
Product markets May 14, 2026 4 min

Product death is quieter than you think — and signal scoring catches it early

Most products don't die with a press release. They die in the data — declining liveness probes, zero press velocity, no new reviews. Across 18 categories, here is what the dying curve looks like before the founders admit it.

Janus transit crowd flow intelligence
Physical space May 6, 2026 6 min

Transit operators have a +19% congestion problem they can't see — Janus can

Crowd flow modeling in transit is hard: people move fast, cameras have blind spots, and authorized staff blend into the public count. A look at how Janus's Track Recovery and Camera Blind-Spot Tuning modules surface real congestion signal — and what 42ms latency makes possible in a live station environment.

Product markets Apr 29, 2026 5 min

Why 18 categories mask the real intelligence — and how to read across them

Launch Sentinel maps 18 product categories, but the most interesting signal lives at the intersections: tools migrating verticals, infrastructure players turning into SaaS, and developer utilities suddenly acquiring consumer traction. A guide to reading cross-category movement in the corpus.

AI search Apr 22, 2026 7 min

The visibility gap: what Google tells you vs. what Gemini, ChatGPT and Perplexity say about you

Tracking health score 87 means little if you don't know which signals drive it. Here is a breakdown of the four answer-engine models Caposeo monitors simultaneously — and why citation share diverges even when organic rank is steady.