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Market Analytics: Cycle Times, Top Categories, Reserve-Met Rates

The data that tells you when to publish, what to publish, and at what price — without an external BI tool.

The Sales & Trader dashboard preset exists because "is the market working" needs an answer that isn’t a feeling. The market widgets aggregate the deal flow into the metrics that actually inform pricing and timing decisions.

Deal-cycle days

The average days from listing-publish to deal-closed, broken down by category and grade band. Trending over time. Tells the seller "Grade A laptops sell in 4 days; Grade C laptops sell in 19 days" — which informs the trade-off between holding for a higher price and accepting a lower one to free up warehouse space.

Top categories

Volume and value, sorted, with period-over-period change. Tells the seller which inventory categories are pulling the platform — useful for procurement decisions on the inbound side.

Intent funnel

Active intents → matched intents → opened deal rooms → closed deals. The drop-off at each stage is where the seller learns "we get matches but they don’t convert" or "we don’t get matches at all" — different problems with different fixes.

Buyer concentration

The Top-N buyers by deal volume. Useful for the kind of awareness that prevents over-dependence on a single buyer (and for the relationship-management decisions that follow).

Time-of-day patterns

When are buyers actually looking. Most sellers publish at 9am Monday and discover that their best engagement is Wednesday afternoon. The data fixes the assumption.