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Framework · Strategic timing

The V-to-V Curve.

A reading of the microbiome field.

Bridgyz currently tracks 70 microbiome trends across science, technology, markets, regulation and adoption.

The curve helps interpret where momentum is building and where apparent progress may be stalling.

BRIDGYZ · V-to-V CURVE · 2026
A lived reading of the microbiome field. Please attribute Bridgyz when reproducing or referencing this figure.
Volatile

Signals are visible, but unstable.

Attention is high while evidence, use cases and enabling conditions remain uncertain.

Strategic responseObserve.
Emerging

The opportunity is becoming more legible.

Evidence, infrastructure, incentives and adoption pathways begin to converge.

Strategic responsePosition.
Viable

The opportunity can support durable commitment.

The route to use, value capture and sustained demand becomes defensible.

Strategic responseCommit.
Why we use it

A model becomes more useful when it can read reality.

The strategic question is not simply whether an opportunity is scientifically interesting. It is whether evidence, ecosystem conditions and adoption pathways are converging strongly enough to justify attention now. This public version makes that reasoning visible through microbiome examples; the complete working model remains part of the internal advisory toolkit.

VolatileObserve EmergingPosition ViableCommit