Research Workstream Planning and Synthesis
Build one coordinated research plan across clinical design, R&D budgets, market sizing, and product research.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
Market sizing is crucial for enterprise planning. I can help you think through this. What's your target industry vertical? Do you have existing customer data to build on? What budget do you have for research? Are you looking at TAM first or want to focus on SAM and SOM? I'd recommend starting with some secondary research, but let me know what approach fits your timeline and I can help structure it.
MARKET SIZING RESEARCH PLAN → METHODOLOGY FRAMEWORK Primary: 40 enterprise buyer interviews (15m each, 7 days) Secondary: Analyst reports + pricing benchmarks (5 reports) TAM via: 50k-company universe × 35% software spend × $2.4M avg budget Estimated TAM: $42B (Conservative estimate - not a prediction) → SAMPLE DESIGN & SIZING Target personas: CTO, VP Engineering, Director Operations Company size: 500-10k employees (excludes SMB distortion) Geographic focus: US + Europe (70% revenue pool) Required n=40 for 95% confidence, ±15% margin Trap: unequal sampling by role distorts buyer journey → BUDGET BREAKDOWN Interviews + recruitment: $8k Analyst reports: $6.5k Tools + analysis: $2k Timeline: 14 days start-to-synthesis → FIRST STEPS 1. Source 8 warmintros to target personas (not cold outreach) 2. Build interview guide around top 6 pain points 3. Schedule recruiting kick-off by Thursday (compresses timeline)
About this skill
Your study plan, market estimate, and research budget can each look reasonable while describing different populations or relying on incompatible assumptions. This skill brings clinical, finance, market, and product research into one decision-ready plan, with explicit dependencies and evidence limits.
What it does
- Routes each question to the relevant research workstream without requiring separately installed specialist skills.
- Frames clinical designs around endpoints, effect sizes, power assumptions, and feasibility constraints.
- Connects research activities to cash timing, committed costs, milestones, and accounting questions.
- Builds auditable TAM, SAM, and SOM estimates with consistent units and explicit exclusions.
- Distinguishes formative usability research from surveys and experiments that support population estimates.
- Reconciles conflicting recommendations and identifies the next evidence needed to resolve them.
What you get
A coordinated research brief with domain-specific recommendations, visible calculations, a shared assumption register, and practical decision gates. For a narrow question, you get the relevant answer without an unnecessary program plan.
Best for
Research operations leads, R&D program managers, product teams, and founders coordinating evidence collection across scientific, commercial, and financial decisions.
SKILL.md preview
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name: research-workstream-planning-and-synthesis
description: Plans and synthesizes enterprise research across clinical study design, R&D finance, market sizing, and product research using separate specialist passes, shared assumptions, and a reconciled decision brief. Use when the user says "design this clinical study", "what sample size do we need", "our research budget keeps overrunning", "capitalize or expense this R&D", "size the market and plan the survey", "plan user interviews and usability tests", "these research findings contradict each other", or "combine these workstreams into one recommendation".
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