Seventeen candidates. Two pilots. One method to prove.

Consensus hero: human authority, evidence and stopping power are central to the RN method.

Consensus hero: inclusive repair is legible, interactive and directly connected to design practice.

Place-sensitive transfer connects Hawaiʻi, implementation and Dutch field research.

Institutional handoffs are distinctive, but the prototype needs real workflow evidence.

AI vendor-claim scrutiny has immediate professional relevance and a clear evidence test.

Cannabis access fits RN’s domain authority but requires real journey evidence and current sources.

Island dependency is highly distinctive but must be grounded in actual infrastructure evidence.

The lived experience of rules is a strong RN proposition that needs observed human evidence.

Citation verification directly connects law and AI, but must be tested against real citations.

Implementation after enactment is a strong legal-systems story that needs a real law and timeline.

A powerful capstone if presented as a bounded planning rehearsal—not a forecast or digital twin.

Strong public explanation concept; prove truth-preserving translation with one real claim.

Strong discovery method; prove that it finds a real unserved decision.

Useful product judgment; show one decision where refusing software was the correct result.

Promising knowledge infrastructure; demonstrate a real source changing a claim and output.

Strong link to RN’s reporting practice; run it on one rights-cleared reporting packet.

Strong portfolio mechanism; prove confidentiality and rights gates using one real cleared project.