Problem
What problem this solves
Important decisions get made too quickly when the evidence is thin, stale, or spread across too many weak sources.
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Research & Grow
Skill Detail
sg-research
Research a topic deeply enough that you can make a better product or GTM decision afterward.
A structured research skill for gathering evidence, checking current-source freshness, and saving reusable workflow reports.
Outcome
What changes when it works
You get a more grounded synthesis of the topic, with enough structure to support a follow-up decision or artifact.
Why It Matters
What this changes for a solo founder
This skill is useful when the right next move depends on better information, not faster coding.
When to use it
- When a decision depends on external research
- When the topic is broad, unfamiliar, or strategically important
- When you want a structured input to later writing or planning work
What you give it
- A research question or topic
- Any constraints about audience, scope, or output style
What you get back
- A research synthesis
- A saved report under the project workflow research corpus
- A stronger evidence base for product or content work
- A better starting point for specs, pages, or GTM decisions
Typical examples
- /sg-research AI visibility for docs sites
- /sg-research competitor onboarding patterns
- /sg-research demand for ops workflows
Limits
- Research improves judgment, not certainty
- Weakly framed questions will still produce weakly useful findings
- Public-content follow-up still goes through the content lifecycle and declared editorial surfaces
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One marketing skill with explicit modes for market evidence, GTM readiness, copy clarity, and persuasion.
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sg-enrich
Upgrade content with fresher research, stronger structure, and more useful answers.
A content-improvement skill for taking an existing page or article and making it more current, more actionable, and more discoverable.
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sg-spec
Turn a fuzzy request into an implementation-ready contract before code starts mutating the repo.
The spec-writing skill for shaping non-trivial work into a clear user story, behavior contract, executable task list, and chantier history.
Open skill pageGo Deeper
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