market-research

This skill is a methodology guide for conducting decision-oriented market research, competitive analysis, investor due diligence, and industry intelligence. Its stated goal is to produce research that supports decisions rather than "research theater," emphasizing sourced claims, recency, contrarian evidence, and a clear separation of fact, inference, and recommendation.

It defines when to activate (market/company/investor/technology research, TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, competitor comparisons, investor dossiers, thesis pressure-testing) and provides structured research modes: investor/fund diligence (check size, portfolio, thesis, red flags), competitive analysis (product reality over marketing, funding, traction, positioning gaps), market sizing (top-down plus bottom-up sanity checks with explicit assumptions), and technology/vendor research (trade-offs, integration complexity, lock-in and compliance risk). It prescribes a default output structure (executive summary, key findings, implications, risks, recommendation, sources) and a quality gate requiring sourced or clearly labeled numbers, flagged stale data, and included counterarguments.

The intended users are founders, investors, analysts, and operators who need rigorous, decision-ready research before building, funding, or entering a market. It is a pure prompting/methodology skill with no code, no tools, and no execution; it shapes how an assistant gathers and presents research.