{
  "dataset_version": "2026.10.1",
  "observations_through": "2026-09-30",
  "computed_on": "2026-10-03",
  "count": 20,
  "note": "What this dataset does not know yet. Each entry is a question the corpus cannot answer with confidence, with its priority.",
  "research_gaps": [
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-001",
      "topic": "Montreal ratio and wait data",
      "priority": "critical",
      "reason": "Montreal is under-documented compared with Toronto and Vancouver."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-002",
      "topic": "Per-model benchmarks (B25, B30, K25, K28, Mini Kelly)",
      "priority": "high",
      "reason": "The samples are too small for clean per-model medians."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-003",
      "topic": "Standard waiting-time anchors",
      "priority": "high",
      "reason": "Reports do not share common start and end points for a wait."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-004",
      "topic": "Paris boutiques (Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Sèvres, George V)",
      "priority": "high",
      "reason": "Tourist, local and appointment paths need to be documented separately."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-005",
      "topic": "Category weighting",
      "priority": "high",
      "reason": "Categories come up often, but no causal or numeric weight has been shown."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-006",
      "topic": "Online and travel spend attribution",
      "priority": "medium_high",
      "reason": "Reports conflict."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-007",
      "topic": "Household and global account integration",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "Reports from 2026 conflict."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-008",
      "topic": "First-person sources in languages other than English",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "English-language sources are overrepresented."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-009",
      "topic": "Individual rows behind the earlier n=31 summary benchmark",
      "priority": "critical",
      "reason": "Needed to make that earlier research-pass summary independently reproducible. The measured benchmark of the Purchase Ratio page is not concerned: MyQuotaBag holds every row behind it and recomputes it on every build."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-013",
      "topic": "First-person reports outside North America and Asia",
      "priority": "high",
      "reason": "Australia, Europe and the Middle East have very few reports, so their regional pages carry no figures."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-014",
      "topic": "Boutique-level detail",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "No report is attached to a specific boutique yet."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-016",
      "topic": "Manager approval and allocation path",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "Nothing documents whether an offer needs a manager sign-off, or in which markets."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-020",
      "topic": "Online purchases and the Purchase Ratio",
      "priority": "high",
      "reason": "Few threads cover it and reports from different cities disagree."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-021",
      "topic": "Annual quota bag limit",
      "priority": "critical",
      "reason": "Few threads document an annual limit and most markets rest on shopper reports."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-022",
      "topic": "Wishlist expiry and renewal",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "A single thread covers it."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-023",
      "topic": "Being offered a bag that is not on the wishlist",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "A single thread covers it."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-024",
      "topic": "Effect of price increases on the Purchase Ratio",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "Only two threads cover it."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-025",
      "topic": "Remote and by-text shopping",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "Few threads cover it."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-026",
      "topic": "Bag retail prices by model, size and market",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "Reports rarely give the bag price in the same post as the spend, so most ratios cannot be recomputed."
    },
    {
      "gap_id": "GAP-027",
      "topic": "Visit frequency",
      "priority": "medium",
      "reason": "No report in the corpus carries a visit count."
    }
  ]
}