niche-researcher

# Niche Researcher This skill helps you understand specific niche communities before engaging with influencers in that space. It analyzes community culture, identifies key voices, maps content ecosystems, and reveals the unwritten rules that determine authentic engagement. ## Quick Start Shortest invocation: ``` Research the [niche] community and identify opportunities for [brand] ``` Common scenario: ``` Deep-dive into [subculture] — who are the key voices, what content works, and would [brand] be a good fit? Flag the cultural risks. ``` ## Skill Contract - **Reads**: niche/community name, parent category, brand or product, research goal (awareness/partnership/entry), platforms to focus on. Optional prior artifacts from `audience-analyzer` or `trend-spotter` in `memory/influencer/`. - **Writes**: a niche research dossier (community map, culture decode, voice tiers, content ecosystem, brand-fit score, entry strategy) saved to `memory/influencer/niche-researcher/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md`. - **Promotes**: durable facts — niche name, brand-fit verdict, top 3 key voices, hard red lines/taboos — to `memory/hot-cache.md`. - **Done when**: - The community is mapped (size, platforms, sub-niches) and its culture decoded (language, norms, taboos). - Key voices are tiered and a brand-fit score (out of 25) with a Strong/Moderate/Weak/Poor verdict is recorded. - A phased entry strategy and explicit red lines are written to the dossier. - **Primary next skill**: [trend-spotter](...