icp-researchlisted
Install: claude install-skill esmefong/gtm-skills
# ICP Research
Turn raw customer signal into an ICP a copywriter, a media buyer, and a sales rep can all act
on the same day. This skill is opinionated about one thing: **you sell into a situation, not to
a demographic.** Everything below is built to find, name, and operationalize the situations that
make someone unable to ignore the product.
The output is not a persona poster. It is an operating document: the situations that create
demand, and a plan for what to do with them. The core is the same whether the buyer is one
person or a company. When the buyer is a team, the skill adds two modules on top: the buying
committee that has to say yes, and an account-level rule a rep can score in 30 seconds. When the
buyer is an individual (consumer, prosumer, lifestyle), those modules are skipped and the
emotional core carries more weight. Neither is the "default"; the skill reads the situation and
adapts.
## When this runs well vs. badly
Run it when the user has *raw material* (or can get it): interviews, survey responses, community
threads, review-site text, sales-call notes, funnel data. The skill's whole value is turning
real customer language into structure. The skill can also **gather public voice-of-customer signal
itself** (Reddit, G2/Capterra, forums) when the company or its competitors are publicly discussed —
this is an opt-in step, offered and confirmed in Phase 1, and it is how the `examples/` ICP was
built. If there is no raw material at all, say so plainly and eith