Industry spine: NAICS 2022 v1.0 (Statistics Canada). Business counts: Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts, December 2023,
and US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Angel-capital cross-references: a Canadian angel-backed company list, mapped
to NAICS by keyword rule. Market figures carry an evidence tier on the number itself — A a filing, results
release or agency table, B reputable secondary, C vendor or trade press, and
UNVERIFIED for analyst estimates.
Screen scores and cut factors are judgment, not measurement. They rank; the studies decide — the
Ranking orders every record by
entry signal, and Method sets out
how the screen works and what each score means.
No search-volume figure appears anywhere — no keyword tool is connected, and each study names the queries to run instead. No primary
customer interviews have been conducted; every 30-day test is designed to get them. Compiled 2026-10-10.