Setting a growth agenda
Provides a prioritised view of emerging opportunities for strategy discussions, with a clear rationale for which areas merit attention and why.
— Strategy & Research
Strategic Opportunity Scanner
Researches emerging growth opportunities across a sector and its adjacencies and scores each on momentum, market attractiveness, strategic fit and timing so effort goes only to the ones that are real and right for you.
- Strategy & Research
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
3–4 days → ~10 minutes
Including the external research pass
No coding required
- Input
- Sector definition and market scope
- Output
- Research-backed opportunity diagnostic report
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~3–4 days per run
— USE CASES
What people use Strategic Opportunity Scanner for
Exploring adjacent markets
Assesses opportunities beyond the core sector against market attractiveness and strategic fit. Highlights where expansion has a credible basis rather than relying on market growth alone.
Testing an opportunity shortlist
Evaluates candidate opportunities on a consistent basis, exposing differences in momentum, fit and timing that can be obscured by persuasive individual business cases.
Informing investment priorities
Clarifies which growth opportunities warrant deeper investigation and which remain premature or poorly aligned, supporting more selective use of research and development resources.
What it works from
- Sector definition and market scope
- Strategic priorities and growth ambitions
- Organisation capabilities and constraints
- Candidate opportunities and adjacent markets of interest
What you get back
- Research-backed opportunity diagnostic report
- Prioritised growth opportunity shortlist
- Assessments of momentum, market attractiveness, strategic fit and timing
- Evidence and rationale supporting each assessment reference
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Strategic Opportunity Scanner produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Live research on the market being watched
Current external sources on the market being watched are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.
Composed as work product
Findings on the market being watched are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a signal.
Criteria-based analysis of every signal
Each signal is assessed against explicit criteria you control, so the same standard is applied across the market being watched on every run.
Why this is expensive by hand
Growth discussions often mix promising market signals with speculative ideas, leaving advisory teams without a consistent basis for recommending where to focus. In practice it shows up as setting a growth agenda: provides a prioritised view of emerging opportunities for strategy discussions, with a clear rationale for which areas merit attention and why. The value sits in the rigour, not the typing — yet the rigour is exactly what gets traded away when there is only 3–4 days of capacity for it.
How this Skill produces it
As a Skill, the work is already sequenced. You bring the evidence, and the run produces research-backed opportunity diagnostic report plus prioritised growth opportunity shortlist. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. Net effect: 3–4 days down to ~10 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- Strategy and corporate development teams
- Consultants producing evidence-led recommendations
- Founders and executives testing new directions
- Anyone who has to cite what they claim
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Strategic Opportunity Scanner exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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