Horizon Signals Report

Early Signal Radar for Futurists + Enterprise Strategy Teams

Technology advances faster than society adapts. The Horizon Signal Report tracks what’s being funded, standardized, filed, and procured—then translates it into watch conditions and pre-controls so leaders can act before surprises scale.

Shared language, shared stories, and deployable safeguards for human flourishing.

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What it is

The Horizon Signals Report is a weekly early-signal brief built for people who live one layer upstream of “the news”:

Funding intent (DARPA + ARPA agencies + NSF/NASA + equivalents)
Standards formation (NIST / ISO / IEEE / IETF and other controls scaffolding)
Research frontier (high-signal preprints and peer-reviewed work)
Commercial intent (patents, filings, and procurement patterns)

You don’t just get “cool futures.” You get:

Watch conditions: what would make a signal real
Pre-controls: small reversible actions you can take now
Graduation triggers: when a signal becomes Daily Brief / enterprise-risk material

Who it’s for

Futurists & foresight teams: disciplined scanning without hype
Enterprise strategy & innovation: invest, partner, pilot with better timing
CISOs / risk leaders: “tomorrow’s controls” before they become requirements
Policy & governance leaders: where standards and incentives are forming
Product leaders: where capability is headed, not just where it is

What you get

Each weekly issue includes:

1) 5–10 curated signals

Each signal is tagged with:

Horizon: 90 / 180 / 365 / 730 days
Maturity stage: concept → funded intent → prototype → standardizing → commercializing → scaling
Triad gap scores: Science/Tech | Human | Ethics/Gov
Confidence: relevance confidence (not “certainty”)

2) Watch conditions (3+ per signal)

Concrete triggers that tell you when to move from “monitor” to “act.”

3) Pre-controls (Action Taxonomy)

Each signal includes 1–3 actions from:
Protect, Prepare, Pilot, Prove, People, Policy, Portfolio
(Designed to be reversible until the signal matures.)

4) Graduation list (bridge to Daily Brief)

Signals that are close to becoming near-term enterprise risk.

5) Controls seeds (for your Controls Library)

A short list of candidate safeguards you can standardize and reuse.

How it works (the method)

We run early-signal scouting as a disciplined evidence workflow, not a vibes exercise.

Source discipline

Every signal must have:

A primary anchor (agency / standards / patent / filing / procurement)
Independent confirmation (another primary or reputable synthesis)
Context (major press or established research org)

No single source family is allowed to dominate the issue.

No-hype rule

We describe what is funded / drafted / filed / proposed / demonstrated—and separate that from what we infer.

Sample signal entry

Signal #4 — “Verifiable Screening Becomes Default Infrastructure”

Category: Biosecurity / Synbio operations
Horizon: D180
Stage: S1 — Funded intent (policy + implementation pathways)
Pattern Label: Verification Gap
What’s new (fact): Federal direction is converging on verifiable DNA synthesis screening.
Why it matters: Treating sequences as regulated artifacts turns labs and vendors into compliance supply chains.
Watch conditions:
- Agency guidance becomes enforceable procurement language
- Major synthesis providers publish audit-ready attestations
- Standards bodies define “screening evidence” formats
Pre-controls:
- Prepare: screening requirements checklist for vendors/partners
- Prove: evidence binder template: logging, escalation, false positives
- People: training: “sequence handling” and transmission approvals
Triad gap: 7.5 | 6.0 | 8.0
Confidence: Med-High
Sources: (Primary / Confirm / Context links)

How it fits with the rest of Balance the Triangle Labs

Daily Brief (Now)

D0–D90: what changed this week + what to do next.