skills/discover-business-opportunities/SKILL.md

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name: discover-business-opportunities
description: Discover and rank evidence-backed business opportunities from customer pain, market change, inefficiency, technology shifts, and underserved segments. Use for business ideas, opportunity discovery, trend-to-business analysis, niche selection, market gaps, or deciding what to build next.
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# Discover Business Opportunities
1. Set geography, customer type, capabilities, capital, time horizon, risk, and excluded models.
2. Research current problem signals, spending, workarounds, growth drivers, regulation, and competitors.
3. Generate opportunities from painful jobs, structural change, fragmented supply, poor experiences, and new capability unlocks.
4. Score problem severity, frequency, budget, access, differentiation, timing, feasibility, margins, defensibility, and risk.
5. Seek disconfirming evidence and reject fashionable ideas without credible demand.
6. Return a signal map, ranked opportunities, evidence, unknowns, cheapest validation test, and recommendation.
Do not equate search interest or social attention with willingness to pay.