🎭 Theater & Live Performance · casting

Probe Casting

Search the combinatorial space of casting with a grover oracle that surfaces the right configuration in √n tries.

Grover search· combinatorial search
Section · Quantum

The hook.

full primer →

Instead of trying every combination, a quantum search jumps to a valid casting configuration in a fraction of the tries and shows directors the winning pick with a confidence score.

Why this primitiveGrover search is the right primitive here because casting reduces to a combinatorial search problem; the kernel returns a result you can drop straight into the UI.

Kernel
a Grover oracle that marks valid configurations and returns the sampled solution bitstring after sqrt(N) iterations
Drives the UI as
a 'found match' panel showing the chosen configuration and confidence
Appendix A

The mega-prompt.

This prompt is engineered to ship in a single Lovable build. Real Quantinuum Guppy/Selene circuit runs in the Linux sandbox at build time and the results are baked in as JSON. read the build strategy →

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Appendix B

Market sizing.

TAM
$3.0B
the live performance market (~$30B globally) with >100K active companies.
SAM
$360M
the 12% of that market actively buying casting-adjacent software.
SOM
$11M
a realistic 3% capture of the serviceable slice in years 1–3 via the hackathon launch and creator-led distribution.

Indicative figures for hackathon pitches — refine with your own research before raising.

See also

Adjacent entries.