Market research
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.From its SKILL.md
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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
- Every important claim needs a source.
- Prefer recent data and call out stale data.
- Include contrarian evidence and downside cases.
- Translate findings into a decision, not just a summary.
- 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 and adoption signals
- integration complexity
- lock-in, security, compliance, and operational risk
Output Format
Default structure:
- executive summary
- key findings
- implications
- risks and caveats
- recommendation
- sources
Quality Gate
Before delivering:
- all numbers are sourced or labeled as estimates
- old data is flagged
- the recommendation follows from the evidence
- risks and counterarguments are included
- the output makes a decision easier
What ships with it
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Gives 2 of the 12 instructions most research analysis skills give in 391 tokens
Counted across 1,213 of the 2,113 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06
- Cite sources for every important claimhere, and in 47 of 1213, across 38 files
- Separate facts from inferences and recommendationshere, and in 21 of 1213, across 12 files
- Write findings to a markdown filein 19 of 1213
- Label every insight with a confidence levelin 18 of 1213, across 8 files
- Read product marketing context before asking questionsin 18 of 1213, across 8 files
- Rank themes by frequency and intensityin 16 of 1213, across 6 files
- Establish research mode before proceedingin 16 of 1213, across 6 files
- Segment survey responses by customer tier or tenurein 16 of 1213, across 6 files
- Categorize support tickets before analyzingin 16 of 1213, across 6 files
- Weight research sources from the last twelve monthsin 16 of 1213, across 6 files
- Use at least five data points per segmentin 15 of 1213, across 5 files
- Extract verbatim quotes for all research findingsin 15 of 1213, across 5 files
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.