Executive Summary

Selection bias in observational data causes systematically biased effect estimates and bad decisions for high-stakes functions such as lending, hiring, clinical outcome analysis, and targeted marketing; the problem is acute for mid-to-large enterprises that routinely deploy predictive and causal models on non-random samples. Approximately 200,000 mid+ enterprises globally make decisions that could benefit from principled selection correction, and current ad hoc practices or black‑box adjustments produce inconsistent results and poor auditability. You could build a SaaS platform that automates feature assignment and diagnostic workflows for Heckman-style selection correction: connectors to common data stores, automated candidate-instrument identification (with human-in-the-loop validation), statistical diagnostics (inverse Mills ratio stability, weak instrument detection, sensitivity analyses), and audit-ready explainability reports that integrate into existing AutoML/MLOps pipelines. The product would target teams who pay ~$30K ACV for enterprise analytics tooling and need reproducible selection-correction in production. This is an attractive moment: we estimate a $6.0B addressable market (200,000 customers × $30K ACV), supported by a high Market Score (92/100) and strong Revenue Potential (88/100) because causal-ML adoption and regulatory scrutiny on bias demand explainable, auditable corrections. At the same time, the technical and trust hurdles are real—valid instrument discovery, domain-specific exclusion restrictions, and customer skepticism mean sales cycles will be consultative and pilots necessary. To stand out you must combine rigorous econometric foundations with practical engineering—transparent diagnostics, conservative defaults, and academic partnerships to validate methods—while embedding human oversight and audit trails that regulators and auditors require. Competition is medium: there is room for a focused, explainability-first product, but success will require investment in domain-specific templates, pilot outcomes, and clear metrics of bias reduction rather than pure prediction uplift.

Market Opportunity

Fix selection bias with automated feature assignment for Heckman models targets a $6.0B = 200,000 mid+ enterprises x $30K ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 18% (enterprise analytics & AutoML adoption growth).

Key trends driving demand: Causal ML adoption -- businesses seek models that estimate causal effects and correct for selection to make reliable decisions.; Regulatory scrutiny on model bias -- requires explainable bias-correction and audit trails for high-risk domains.; AutoML & MLOps maturity -- makes it easier to deploy econometric-correction steps into production pipelines.; Pretrained LLMs for code/metadata -- enable automated mapping of dataset fields to econometric roles at scale..

Key competitors include DataRobot, H2O.ai (Driverless AI), Microsoft / EconML (open-source) & DoWhy, Traditional stats packages & custom code (R/Stata/SAS + in-house dev).

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Fix selection bias with automated feature assignment for Heckman models

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