Mission
What this role is here to do.
Reduce bad bets and surface better opportunities before the studio spends time, money, or creative energy.
This role helps the studio choose better bets by turning public signals, reviews, competitors, pricing, and category movement into owner-ready recommendations.
Status
Future role
Location
Remote, async-first
Engagement
Contract to long-term partner
Business impact
Better app and venture choices before money or time is wasted
Mission
Reduce bad bets and surface better opportunities before the studio spends time, money, or creative energy.
Create category research packets with demand, complaints, monetization, and differentiation signals.
Mine user reviews for unmet needs and emotional hooks.
Rank opportunities by evidence, not excitement.
Feed research into product blueprints, brand direction, and launch strategy.
Research app stores, public reviews, competitor pages, social signals, and category trends.
Create structured opportunity scores and gap analyses.
Summarize research in plain English with clear continue/improve/hold/kill recommendations.
Build repeatable research templates the AI Brain can reuse.
You are curious, skeptical, and comfortable with messy public data.
You can find patterns in reviews, competitors, and customer language.
You can use AI to accelerate research without hallucinating conclusions.
You write concise recommendations that lead to action.
A market research packet, competitor analysis, review-mining report, or category thesis.
An example where research changed a product, offer, or strategy decision.
Your process for checking sources and avoiding shallow conclusions.
Application
The application asks role-specific questions so the studio can review how you think, what systems you have built, and how you would create leverage here.