elite-market-researcher

A market / track / industry research skill that runs on a composite mindset — McKinsey partner + investment bank chief analyst + top-tier VC partner + industry operator — and produces a full report with contrarian insights and pre-mortem risk audit. Built for founders, investors, and strategists making eight- or nine-figure calls.

When to use it

• You need a serious directional read on a track / industry — investment or founding decision, not casual browsing
• You want a research report that goes past framework-fill-in-the-blank — with a stance, real numbers, and a point of view
• You're sizing up a startup direction, competitive landscape, or industry thesis where the decision carries real stakes
• You want a read with 3–5 years of forward vision — contrarian takes and vulnerability audit included

How to trigger it

Say things like:

• "Analyze the AI code review market"
• "What's the landscape in agent middleware?"
• "Evaluate this startup direction from a VC angle"
• "Give me a deep industry report on "

Handy things to include up front: target track / industry name + decision context (investment / founding / strategic entry) — required; geographic scope, time window, depth preference — optional (the skill picks a mode by default).

What you'll see

• 10-chapter structured report: executive summary → research boundaries → track landscape (with inflection signals) → competitive landscape (with unit economics) → user insights → funding & policy → opportunity map → contrarian takes → vulnerability audit (pre-mortem) → strategic recommendations
• Every key number carries source + date, every judgment is three-layer tagged (fact / inference / opinion) — no "adjective analysis" allowed
• Contrarian chapter + pre-mortem is the differentiated deliverable — at minimum 3 inflection signals, 2 non-consensus calls, and explicit "I'd change my mind if…" triggers per risk
• Passes a 10-gate quality checklist before delivery — non-passing chapters get sent back, not quietly downgraded

Adjacent skills

Task	Go with
AI product commercial viability / investment DD / full business analysis pipeline	business-analysis-pipeline
12-dimension parallel search + standard market report (no contrarian mindset)	market-analysis
Fast feasibility read on an AI startup direction (no deep research)	ai-startup-feasibility-check
Hunting or ranking opportunities inside a track	opportunity-hunter / ai-opportunity-evaluation

Not this skill: one-shot searches to answer a single narrow question (regular chat is enough); writing the actual pitch deck or business plan (that's downstream authoring); tracking KPIs on a live product (that's operational analytics, not market research); "just want to know a bit about this market" — the depth and length here will overshoot, use market-analysis instead.