Market Research
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Market
Research

See what is selling to shoppers right now — and the exact words doing the selling.

Needs no other skill. You give it a URL, a folder, or three sentences.
Working sketch. Give it a market below and it builds a brief on screen from common consumer-web conventions and your own words. It does not crawl the Fortune 500 live or touch your site — read the real pages before you trust a line. The full method is written out further down.
Version 1 $0.99/mo free beta
Version 2 $4.99/mo free beta
Version 3 $9.99/mo free beta
You're on Version 1.
The one thing this app does

Name a market. Get the brief.

Tell it what you sell and to whom — a URL, a category, or three plain sentences. It builds a market brief on screen: the scorecard, the live word list, the change list and the stop list.

Carry it further — visible on every version, live on the one that unlocks it

Export · PDF / CSV / JSON

Carry the brief out of the browser.

Save this brief

Keep it, and bring it back later.

Recent briefs

No saved briefs yet.

Research console

Tune the run.

Markdown / DOCX

Every format, not just the three.

Share a link

Send it straight off the screen.

White-label

Your name on every export.

Batch markets

Up to ten in one go.

Buyer-group words

So the pages don't all read the same.

Version 3 · your own API key

Versions 1 and 2 write the brief on our account, so they're capped by the month. Paste an API provider key of your own and we stop counting. The key is kept in this browser only, and is never sent anywhere to fetch a page.

No key saved. The reading and writing runs on our account.

Do not invent.
Follow what works.

Skip the clever thing and the new thing. Look only for what is working in the market right now — at companies that spend more testing one headline than this whole project costs.

If a finding makes you say “everyone does that” — that is the finding. Obvious and everywhere is what you came for.

01

Say what you sell, and to whom

Vague answers give vague research. Write these five lines before any searching starts.

Sells
What you sell, in a shopper's words — not the company's.
Shopper
Who buys it, described as a person standing somewhere with a phone.
Trigger
What happened in their life 30 seconds before they went looking.
Price band
How big the decision feels: impulse, considered, researched, or major.
Adjacent aisle
The big retail category this behaves like, even if the product is different.

The adjacent aisle line does the most work. A roofing company and a mattress company are both considered purchase, anxious buyer, one big decision, warranty matters — so mattress pages are a fair source of patterns for the roofer.

02

Keep only the brands that sell to shoppers

Start with the current Fortune 500. Delete every company that does not sell to a shopper. Write down the counts as you cut — the counts are what make the list defensible.

Cut — not shoppers

  • Enterprise software, cloud, semiconductors
  • Industrial, chemicals, defense
  • Wholesale, freight, commercial real estate, staffing
  • Insurance and banking, except the consumer storefront
  • Anything whose buyer signs a purchase order

Keep — real shoppers, own money

  • Retail, restaurants, apparel, food and beverage
  • Consumer electronics, home improvement
  • Autos-to-consumer, travel, streaming
  • Beauty, pharmacy, consumer telecom
  • Consumer fintech
Tier A — the majors
25–40
Fortune 500 brands left after the cut

Huge testing budgets. What they do is where the market sits.

Tier B — the movers
10–15
Fast-growing consumer brands, same aisle

The majors move last. These brands show what is arriving next.

A pattern that appears in both tiers is not a trend — it is the current standard, and the site should almost certainly adopt it.

03

Read the live pages, not your memory

Take five pages from each brand: homepage, top category page, one product page, the checkout entry, one live campaign. Fetch them live — training data is older than the market. Every capture carries a URL and a date, and anything you cannot date inside twelve months is labelled history, not heat.

Words

  • Hero headline, verbatim
  • Subhead, first body line
  • Every button on the buy path
  • Words for price, discount, urgency
  • What they call the customer
  • Reading level, sentence length

Offers

  • The shape of the offer
  • Which comes first: price or promise
  • Guarantee and returns wording
  • Urgency — real or fake
  • Shipping thresholds

Proof

  • Ratings, review counts, position
  • Units sold, “most popular”
  • Customer photos, expert badges
  • What they lead with: price, quality, speed, identity, fear

Style

  • Tone, and who it speaks as
  • Do they explain, or assume you know
  • Where humour appears, and where it never does
  • Hero device, imagery, density
  • How numbers are shown

Word-for-word text stays in the swipe file as evidence. It never goes on your site.

04

Count what repeats until it is a pattern

A pattern is something you can put a number on: how many Tier A brands, how many Tier B, three examples with URLs, roughly how old it is, why it works on shoppers, and whether this aisle supports it.

Table stakes
Over 70% of both tiers. Missing it reads as amateur. Adopt, no debate.
Hot
Rising. Strong in Tier B, arriving in Tier A. Adopt if the aisle fits.
Mature
Everywhere for years and still working. Safe to use.
Fading
Was everywhere, now shrinking. Do not adopt — remove if present.
Wrong aisle
Works, but not for this shopper or price band. Rejected with a reason.

Minimum haul: 12 word patterns, 6 offer patterns, 6 proof patterns, 6 communication-style patterns. Fewer means not enough pages were read.

Plus a live word list — the words this aisle uses this year for cheap, fast, guaranteed, easy, new, popular, limited, and the customer. Words age out. The report says what replaced what.

05

Prove it sells, not that it is popular

Everyone skips this part, and it is the whole point. Popular is not proof. Selling is proof. Every pattern you recommend must first be tied to money, or to years of surviving on a live page.

Strong
Tied to published performance numbers, or long-lived across a major's entire site.
Medium
Persistent across many companies for six months or more. Pages get tested — surviving a year on a major retailer's homepage is earned.
Weak
Widespread but new, or one company, or press-release-shaped. May be suggested. Never recommended.

The survivorship warning stays in view: these companies win for many reasons, not just this one pattern. A pattern is a possible cause, never a proven one — and no lift number gets written that wasn't measured.

06

What you get back

Documents\Claude\Market-Research\<project>\MARKET_BRIEF.md  +  market-swipe\
  1. The scorecard. Which table stakes you have, which you are missing, hot patterns that fit, fading devices still on your site, dead words — and a straight verdict on whether your site reads like it belongs in this aisle this year.
  2. The word list. The live wording, ready to use: what to call the price, the discount, the guarantee, the shipping, the customer, the urgency.
  3. The change list. In order, ready to do. Each line names the pattern it follows and how strong the evidence is. Best evidence and least work come first.
  4. The stop list. What to remove: faded patterns, dead words, devices the market has left behind.

Three things it will not do

Patterns, not property
Structures, sequences, word classes, offer shapes, rhythms — yes. A competitor's literal sentence, slogan, name, trade dress, logo, or mark — never. Verbatim capture is evidence; it stays in the swipe file. Every recommended line is an original sentence following a documented pattern.
No claims you cannot back
It will not recommend a badge, a number, a countdown, or a guarantee the business cannot actually honour. A fake timer or an invented “1,200 sold” is fraud, not marketing. This rule has no override, and every recommended claim is listed with what backs it.
No made-up numbers
No conversion lifts, no percentages, no performance promises that weren't measured. Where the evidence is thin it says thin, and the item goes in the fenced-off suggested, unproven list, where it is recommended to no one.
The five skills, in order
  1. 1  design-brief
  2. 2  ui-polish-agent
  3. 3  ux-polisher
  4. 4  market-research
  5. 5  market-manager
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