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Digital Signal Intelligence will not become a procurement category. Signal gravity pulls every horizontal sensing layer down into the suites that already own the data, the way it pulled the CDP into the warehouse between 2020 and 2026. The defensible wedge underneath it is the incrementality ledger: a first-party record of which signals and actions caused pipeline, proven by holdout rather than inferred by attribution.
The same Bombora and 6sense feeds reach every competitor in a category at once, so buyer intent no longer buys an edge. Under Signal Parity, the advantage moves to how fast you interpret and route what everyone already has.
The same autonomy setting cuts cost for one team and raises it for another, because what decides the outcome is where a team's review process sits relative to the governance crossover, not the model or the task chain.
In a category where every product scores the same on every axis, you win by dominating one axis and letting the rest fall, because buyers and AI answer engines retrieve shape, not average score.