What’s moving before it’s confirmed

A faster, noisier read on the same YC data everywhere else on this site: a formation whose YC tag or industry membership jumps over two consecutive batches, well before it clears the four-batch bar the rest of the site requires to call something “accelerating.” It’s a real but modest signal — backtested against the full YC batch history, not asserted. There’s also an even earlier, noisier tier — Whisper — kept on its own page since its open-signal list runs much longer than this one. For a categorically different read with no YC data underneath it at all, see Frontier.