There are 2 things that are more critical for deep tech - money...

There are 2 things that are more critical for deep tech - money and enough talent. Talent is in very short supply globally. Over the past month I have listened to dozens of quantum startup CEOs. These startups are in the quantum sensor game. There is a shorter timeline (hopefully) for this part of the quantum tech to be commercialised. Although none of them has made it in the tough semiconductor consumer market yet. Instead they are mainly being sponsored by the military(DARPA) and NASA. All say that they need more funding,investment,venture capital. And they need it primarily for research and engineering hires. Even when they have a prototype to test, they need more people, then they need even more engineers to re design or design a few different versions. Time might be the only solution here. Wait for more skilled people to become available.
The main reason to go to quantum conferences and semiconductor expos is to scout around for talent apparently. Even to commercialise sensors, the industry sees direct government funding and involvement as the way forward.

some of the quantum start ups and small companies who have partnered with military and space programs like the international space station and with specific hospitals - Infleqtion, Delta g, Quantum Exponential

many sensor uses being developed and tested, here are some of them....

- more sensitive and accurate than MRI scans without the need to use that dreaded tunnel.
- Quantum gravity sensors that are sensitive enough to detect changes in gravity when there are tunnels/bunkers below. Military are very interested in this. Also will help mining industry.

- Quantum atomic clocks that get rid of the need for GPS. Apparently there have been GPS spoofing incidents with planes.

- Quantum radio frequency antenna. This is a much more powerful antenna chip than the qualcomm and broadcomm ones we have in our phones. Will allow for much more range of frequency detection and connection. This is also the one that our CEO came closest to saying we were developing a year ago. Since then he has reverted to being silent on specific use cases relevant to the 12CQ and in the latest chat mentioned machine learning and finance optimization problem solving, which is NOT about sensors but is about quantum computing with thousands of qubits and complex error correction methods....unless he sees the 12CQ playing a part in memory and connectivity uses for large quantum computing servers like IBM. CEOs of qauntum companies of every size and type do say that use cases keep evolving or more possibilities become apparent as research progresses. But I also know that AXE has kept things quite consistent. The progress updates show a clear road to read out accuracy. Why only focus on read out? ... points to using the qubits as sensors that naturally detect/record (abosrb) and lock in a particular environmental indicator like gravity or radio frequency and all that's then required is to read that measurement and reset for next detect and lock in.

here's the quantum antenna chip Mo was excited about.... the 24:18 mark for the details on the AXE chip prototype.