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Market and competitor research
Plan a small, honest comparison of the alternatives in your market, with every source recorded and guesses marked.
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Suits
- People testing a business or product idea
- Small teams deciding how to position an offer
Result
Produce a research plan and a comparison table that an AI assistant can help fill in, where every claim has a source and a date.
Example outcome — a research question, a list of alternatives, a comparison table with sources and dates, a short list of gaps, and open questions. This is an example plan, not finished research.
Steps
- Write the one question this research must answer, and the decision it informs.
- List the alternatives, including doing nothing and do-it-yourself options.
- Choose a few comparison criteria, and fill the table only from sources you can cite.
- Mark every assumption or guess clearly, apart from sourced facts.
- Ask the assistant to summarise the table and suggest gaps, then check each suggestion against the sources.
Checks
- Every claim in the table has a source and a date.
- Guesses are labelled as guesses.
- The summary answers the research question directly.
- No private or confidential information about a competitor was used.
Limits
- An AI assistant can mix up or invent facts; every figure must be checked at its source.
- Public information may be out of date, and it cannot show what competitors plan next.
- This is planning guidance: it does not build, publish, send, or run anything.
Before you start
- Time to read public sources such as websites, price lists and reviews
- A place to record each source and the date you checked it
Permissions
- None. This template does not request filesystem, network, shell, secret, or account access.
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