The Q-Intercept Latency Index.
The first quarterly benchmark of how much compute capital is being incinerated in the quantum-classical handoff.
Every Q-Intercept audit feeds the Index. The methodology is public. The data is sanitized. No customer is ever named. The inaugural report ships Q2 2026 — anchored to the first 5–10 paid audits.
The number nobody publishes.
In 2026, hyperscalers and Fortune 500 enterprises are pouring capital into hybrid quantum-HPC infrastructure. Classical GPU clusters sit idle waiting for QPUs to return results. Calibration drift kills jobs that took hours to assemble.
Vendors publish qubit counts. They do not publish what their architecture costs you.
The Latency Index publishes the cost.
What the inaugural report will look like.
Sample shapes. Numbers below are placeholders. Real data ships with the Q2 2026 report once we have aggregated audits from 5–10 paying customers.
Quantum-suitability share by industry
Pharma
Finance
Logistics
Workload distribution across the 15 archetypes
Illustrative only. These numbers are placeholders that show the shape of the inaugural report. Real data comes from aggregated, sanitized, customer-approved manifest data from the first wave of paid audits. We will not publish numbers we have not measured.
The methodology is public.
The Index inherits the same archetype library, QSS rubric, and honesty guardrail as the audit itself. Every quarterly report cites the methodology version that produced it.
Aggregation
Per-customer manifests are bucketed by industry and archetype family, then aggregated. No customer-specific data point ever appears in the published Index.
Consent
Every manifest is reviewed by the customer before upload via the CLI consent flag. Customers can withdraw consent at any time and we re-aggregate.
Versioning
Each quarterly report carries the methodology hash of the version that produced it. Re-running on historical data with a newer methodology is reported separately.
Advisory council.
A standing council reviews the methodology and signs off on every quarterly report.
Council seats Being seated
Three permanent seats — one operations-side veteran from each of the target verticals (pharma, finance, logistics). Plus one rotating academic seat.
Council members are disclosed publicly once seated. The seating process for Index v1 runs in parallel with the first wave of paid audits.
Get the inaugural report when it ships.
One email when the Q2 2026 report drops. Methodology updates as they sign. Nothing else.
Why the Index matters.
For Fortune 500 CIOs
A defensible number you can take to your board to justify (or refuse) hybrid-infrastructure spend. Anonymized peer benchmarking against industry medians. Cite us; don't cite a vendor.
For the industry
A standard metric the market currently lacks. Hyperscalers, system integrators, and QPU vendors get a vendor-neutral yardstick. Q-Intercept owns the data layer.