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market-research

From affaan-m

Conduct market research, competitive analysis, investor due diligence, and industry intelligence with source attribution and decision-oriented summaries. Use when the user wants market sizing, competitor comparisons, fund research, technology scans, or research that informs business decisions.

Structures market research, competitor analysis, and investor diligence into sourced, decision-oriented reports.

Use it when

  • Building TAM/SAM/SOM estimates before a pitch or plan
  • Comparing competitor products, pricing, and positioning
  • Vetting an investor or fund before outreach
  • Scanning a technology or vendor for adoption/lock-in risk

Skip it if

  • You need live data retrieval, not a formatting/methodology template
  • You want raw numbers without sourcing or executive-summary framing
  • Quick informal lookup is enough; this enforces a full report structure

Facts

Repository
affaan-m/ECC
Status
Actively maintained
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Source file
.agents/skills/market-research/SKILL.md

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The instructions Claude Code reads when this skill runs.

# Market Research

Produce research that supports decisions, not research theater.

## When to Activate

- researching a market, category, company, investor, or technology trend
- building TAM/SAM/SOM estimates
- comparing competitors or adjacent products
- preparing investor dossiers before outreach
- pressure-testing a thesis before building, funding, or entering a market

## Research Standards

1. Every important claim needs a source.
2. Prefer recent data and call out stale data.
3. Include contrarian evidence and downside cases.
4. Translate findings into a decision, not just a summary.
5. Separate fact, inference, and recommendation clearly.

## Common Research Modes

### Investor / Fund Diligence
Collect:
- fund size, stage, and typical check size
- relevant portfolio companies
- public thesis and recent activity
- reasons the fund is or is not a fit
- any obvious red flags or mismatches

### Competitive Analysis
Collect:
- product reality, not marketing copy
- funding and investor history if public
- traction metrics if public
- distribution and pricing clues
- strengths, weaknesses, and positioning gaps

### Market Sizing
Use:
- top-down estimates from reports or public datasets
- bottom-up sanity checks from realistic customer acquisition assumptions
- explicit assumptions for every leap in logic

### Technology / Vendor Research
Collect:
- how it works
- trade-offs a
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