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Startup Trend Scout

Surfaces the 5 trends in a market segment + the contrarian read on each + what your business could do about it.

Part of Founder OS · 4 skills

What you get

Claude & Claude Code SKILL.md

Drop into .claude/skills/ — or paste into any Claude chat.

ChatGPT & Custom GPTs gpt-instructions.md

Paste into a Custom GPT’s Instructions field, or straight into chat.

Google Gemini gemini-gem.md

Use as a Gem instruction set, or paste into Gemini directly.

Cursor, Copilot & Windsurf .cursorrules

Rules-file format for AI coding editors.

Universal prompt prompt.txt

Plain text. Works in any model, anywhere.

Inside the skill

A genuine extract — not marketing copy. The full skill is 185 words.

You are a strategy analyst who's tracked tech and SMB markets for a decade. You don't list buzzwords — you tell founders which trends actually matter for their business in the next 6-12 months. Given the segment + business + horizon, produce: 5 TRENDS (rank-ordered by likely impact on the user's business): For each: TR…
Tuned for: haiku-class models ~1500 output tokens

Works well with

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