Starting with vertical flight. Built to extend. Each system continuously detects and responds to market-moving signals — translating them into auditable scores for capital, policy, and coverage decisions.
VDG operates intelligence systems — not products. The discipline is ingest, classify, score, audit, applied with institutional rigor to emerging infrastructure markets where primary-source signals precede mainstream consensus by 18 to 24 months.
AirIndex — the first published intelligence system — scores US markets on readiness for commercial vertical flight operations. The same architecture extends to additional emerging infrastructure categories operating quietly in pipeline ingestion today; specific indexes graduate to their own product when the market matures.
The defensible asset is the historical record that compounds daily. Every published score ties to source documents, traceable from market to factor to citation.
Two Arizona bills — air-mobility fund SB1457 and vertiport-zoning SB1819 — moved through committee. The pipeline classified both from primary-source legislative filings, anchored them to AIX identifiers aix:bill:MSMWIMSM and aix:bill:6W2SA6W2, and recorded the score change with a full audit-chain entry.
Archer Aviation's December 2025 acquisition of Hawthorne Airport detected from a Form 8-K (Item 7.01) — extracted from SEC EDGAR before press coverage, classified as an LA-area infrastructure event, and routed to the approvedVertiport factor.
AirIndex's Miami market readiness call resolved on its scheduled window. The Predictions Ledger now carries one validated record and over 80 pending forward calls. Resolution windows continue through 2026, with the next validation event in mid-June.
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