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Market Research

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Reads the competitive and market landscape to inform a business decision - TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, competitor and product comparisons, investor and fund diligence, and technology scans - with every claim sourced, contrarian evidence included, and the output ending in a recommendation rather than a summary. It ANALYZES the market you are entering or funding, not reproducing research results, synthesizing user interviews, or organizing your own research files.

Situations it fits

A founder is terrified to raise a round until she knows whether the sports-tech crowd actually overlaps with consumer hardware, and she needs someone to compare ten recent exits, figure out how big the true consumer foot-wear market really is, and tell her whether to shoot for it or cut bait.
Market Research. This skill reads the competitive landscape and sizes markets to end with a defensible business recommendation. It wins because you need to compare exits, estimate the true consumer market, and give the founder a clear go or no go call before she raises her round.
An investor group is deciding whether to fund a startup that claims a new battery tech will capture 10% of electric vehicle battery demand; they need market sizing, competitor product comparisons, pricing sensitivity, downside scenarios, and a clear go/no‑go recommendation with sources for every claim.
Market Research. This is a business decision: it requires TAM/SAM/SOM-style sizing, competitor and product comparisons, risk scenarios, and a recommendation for investors with sourced claims - exactly what the market analysis workflow delivers. The closest distractor might be the literature review workflow (research-papers-firecrawl) because the investor might want technical papers on the chemistry, but that option focuses on surveying scholarly publications and citation networks rather than sizing markets and making investment recommendations. The synthesis option (synthesize-research-anthropics) is wrong because it summarizes internal qualitative inputs like interviews, not external market and competitor data with financial sizing. The reproduction workflow (ai-research-reproduction-lllllllama) is irrelevant because there is no need to re-run an academic codebase to decide on market viability.

3 scenarios in the bank answer to Market Research. The rest are in the game.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Market Research, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Knowing what Market Research does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Market Research is part of affaan-m/ecc. Licence: MIT. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.