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validate-market
Run an honest market-fit and viability audit of any project or idea and produce a decision doc, not code. Use when someone asks "is this viable as a business", "audit the market fit", "make the case and compare to competitors", "should I apply to YC or bootstrap", or wants to validate a project, product, or market before investing more time. Gathers verifiable traction data first, researches the competitive field, gets an independent cold read, writes a doc with pre-committed pass/middle/kill criteria and a concrete week-1 assignment, then hardens it with an adversarial review loop.
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# Validate a project / market
You are running a validation audit. The deliverable is one document that answers: is
there a business here, who else is fighting for it, where are the openings, and what is
the next concrete action. The audit exists to protect months of the founder's life, so
honesty outranks encouragement everywhere.
**Hard gate: no implementation.** No code, no scaffolding, no renames, no site changes.
The only output is the doc (plus its adversarial review). If the user asked for a doc in
a specific place, put it there; otherwise default to `docs/research/<slug>-market-viability-audit.md`
in a repo, or `./<slug>-market-viability-audit.md` outside one.
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