Last verified: September 16, 2026
What You Can Now Do
Context Memo customers can now view a read-only queue of ideas ranked by demand in the hopper interface. The queue orders every idea in your hopper by demand signal, so the highest-demand concepts sit at the top instead of being buried in whatever order they were captured. This changes one specific task: choosing what to write next. Instead of ranking ideas by gut feel, internal politics, or the order your team happened to add them, you open the queue and start at the top. The decision moves from opinion to signal.
Where It Is in Context Memo
The ranked queue lives in the hopper interface, alongside your existing idea list. The screen now shows ideas ordered by demand signal rather than by capture order, with the ranking applied at the point where the hopper forecast pipeline runs. The view is read-only in this release, so what you see is the ranking output, not an editable list.
How to Use It
- Open the hopper. The idea list now appears in demand-ranked order. The top of the list is the highest demand signal in your current set.
- Read down the top of the queue. Note where high-ranked ideas already have a published memo and where they do not. The gaps are your near-term publishing targets.
- Pick your next memo from the top of the queue, not the middle. Move the highest-ranked unaddressed idea into memo generation and publish it to your own domain as you normally would.
- Compare the queue against your existing editorial calendar. If your planned content for the next cycle sits low in the ranking, reorder the calendar before you commission the work.
- Re-check the queue before each planning cycle. The ranking is computed through the hopper forecast pipeline, so the order reflects the current signal set rather than a one-time snapshot. Treat it as a standing input to planning, not a report you read once.
- Cross-reference the top of the queue with your citation and share of voice views. A high-demand idea where competitors are getting cited and you are not is the clearest case for publishing next.
Why We Built It
The request was consistent: customers wanted to see which ideas have the most demand so they could prioritize which concepts to develop or publish next. Before this, the hopper told you what ideas existed but not which ones mattered most, which meant prioritization happened in a spreadsheet or in a meeting, using judgment rather than signal. The cost was real. Teams spent effort on memos for low-demand concepts while high-demand questions stayed unanswered, and the models kept filling in those blanks on their own.
What It Does Not Do Yet
This is Phase 1, and the view is read-only. You cannot reorder the queue manually, pin an idea to the top, override a rank, or exclude an idea from the ranking. If your team has a strategic reason to publish something the ranking puts low, that decision still lives outside the product: make the call in your editorial plan and proceed. The queue informs prioritization; it does not yet enforce it.
There is also no bulk action from the queue. Moving a ranked idea into memo generation is the same step it was before, taken one idea at a time.
Two further notes on scope. The ranking reflects demand signal in your hopper, so the quality of the order depends on the breadth of what you have captured. A thin hopper produces a thin ranking. And if your brand is early, with little published content and limited domain authority, a demand-ranked queue will point you at the right questions but cannot substitute for the foundational content that makes a memo credible to a model in the first place. Build that base, then let the queue direct where you spend effort next.
