patterns / succession_window
buyout thesisowner at retirement age (62+) of a real, solvent company — profile, not story: the broad buyout denominator that the story patterns refine (formerly the 'hot' slice)
Deliberately broad and story-free: nothing has HAPPENED — the owner is simply at the age where every year makes a sale more likely, and the company is real and solvent. This is the denominator of the buyout thesis; every story pattern (cash-rich owner, silver owner, double aging…) is a refinement of this window. Kept as a pattern so entering it (the owner turning 62, equity turning positive) is a dated, journalled, backtestable event like everything else.
Not an outreach trigger by itself — a monitoring set. The play is to watch for the first story pattern or register event on top of the window; profile plus story is when the conversation starts.
The badge is recomputed nightly across the whole index, and re-evaluated live the moment a company files — so a match is always a statement about the current register, not a stale list. Like every signal on the radar: a prompt to look closer, never a verdict.