Developers writing performance-critical C code often misunderstand where their code actually operates at higher abstraction levels than intended.
Build a static analyzer that maps C constructs to their actual hardware operations, highlighting abstraction gaps with visual heatmaps.
Performance engineering teams would pay for tools that help optimize their lowest-level code.
MVP could simply annotate standard library calls with latency estimates before adding full control flow analysis.
Risk is competing with established profilers that might add similar features.