market-researchlisted

## When to use - Researching a market, category, company, investor, or technology trend. - Building TAM/SAM/SOM estimates. - Comparing competitors or adjacent products. - Preparing investor dossiers before outreach. - Pressure-testing a thesis before building, funding, or entering a market. - Triggers on "market sizing", "competitor analysis", "due diligence", "市场调研", "市场规模", or "竞品分析". **Not for:** deep technical investigation with citations (use `research`); choosing/comparing a specific tool or library for a concrete requirement (use `tech-selection`). ## Steps 1. **Hold the research standards.** - Every important claim needs a source. - Prefer recent data; call out stale data explicitly. - Include contrarian evidence and downside cases. - Translate findings into a decision, not just a summary. - Separate fact, inference, and recommendation clearly. 2. **Run the relevant research mode.** **Investor / Fund Diligence** - Fund size, stage, and typical check sizes. - Relevant portfolio companies. - Public thesis and recent activity. - Reasons the fund is or is not a fit. - Obvious red flags or mismatches. **Competitive Analysis** - Product reality, not marketing copy. - Funding and investor history if public. - Traction metrics if public. - Distribution and pricing clues. - Strengths, weaknesses, and positioning gaps. **Market Sizing** - Top-down estimates from reports or public datasets. - Bottom-up sanity ch