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name: market-research
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description: Research market context, competitor behavior, and category expectations to improve PM problem framing, scope decisions, and requirement quality.
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Use this skill when the user wants market research, competitor analysis, category benchmarking, or when product requirements would benefit from knowing what users already expect in the market.
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This is a pure PM research skill. It exists to improve product definition, not to design implementation.
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## Goals
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Use research to answer:
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- What problem patterns already exist in the market?
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- What are users trained to expect from comparable products?
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- What are table-stakes behaviors versus differentiators?
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- What risks, trust expectations, or NFR expectations are common in this category?
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## What To Research
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- Competitor messaging and positioning
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- User-facing workflows and product behavior
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- Packaging, pricing, and plan boundaries when relevant
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- Compliance, security, audit, or reliability expectations when relevant
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- Common success patterns, common gaps, and obvious differentiation opportunities
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## What Not To Do
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- Do not design architecture or modules
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- Do not infer backend implementation details unless publicly documented and directly relevant to product expectations
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- Do not reverse-engineer private systems
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- Do not turn research into engineering tasks
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- Do not copy competitors blindly; explain the implication for this product and this user context
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## Process
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1. Clarify the research question, target market, target user, and feature area.
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2. Research public sources to gather evidence.
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3. Group findings into patterns instead of producing a raw link dump.
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4. Extract implications for problem framing, scope, acceptance criteria, and NFRs.
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5. Write a concise research brief.
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## Output
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Save research briefs to `docs/research/{date}-{topic}.md`.
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This file is an input artifact for downstream PM stages:
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- `brainstorming` may use it to shape scope options and product direction
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- `write-a-prd` may use it to justify requirements, success metrics, NFRs, and risks
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Use this format:
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## Research Question
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## Target User / Buyer
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## Market Context
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## Competitor Patterns
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## Table Stakes
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## Differentiation Opportunities
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## Risks And Expectations
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## Implications For Requirements
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## Sources
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## Guidance
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- Prefer direct evidence over broad speculation
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- Prefer 3-5 strong comparable products over 20 shallow mentions
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- Call out confidence level when evidence is weak
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- Tie findings back to user-visible behavior, scope, and NFR expectations
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