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Create a company research brief with executive quotes, product strategy, and org context. Use when preparing for interviews, competitive analysis, partnerships, or market-entry work.

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Company Research Template

Use this template to create an executive insights company profile.

Provenance

Adapted from prompts/company-profile-executive-insights-research.md in the https://github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-prompts repo.

Template

## Executive Insights Company Profile

### Research Objective
- **Company Name:** [Name]
- **Research Purpose:** [Why this research]
- **Key Questions:**
  - [Question 1]
  - [Question 2]
  - [Question 3]

### Company Overview
**Basic Information:**
- **Name:** [Official name]
- **Headquarters:** [Location]
- **Industry:** [Industries]
- **Founded:** [Year]
- **Size:** [Employees/revenue/funding]

**Brief History:**
- [Key milestones]

### Executive Quotes on Strategic Vision
- **CEO:** [Quote + source + date]
- **COO:** [Quote + source + date]
- **VP of Product:** [Quote + source + date]
- **Group PM:** [Quote + source + date]

### Detailed Product Insights
- **Product Strategy Overview:** [Summary]
- **Recent Launches/Innovations:**
  1. [Launch 1]
  2. [Launch 2]

### Transformation Strategies
- **Digital Transformation:** [Summary]
- **AI Transformation:** [Summary]
- **Agile Transformation:** [Summary]

### Organizational Impact of Product Management
- **Role of PM in Strategic Decisions:** [Summary]
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** [Summary]
- **PM Career Paths:** [Summary]

### Future Roadmap and Challenges
- **Upcoming Initiatives:** [Summary]
- **Anticipated Challenges:** [Summary]

### Product-Led Growth Insights
- **PLG Strategies:** [Summary]
- **Data-Driven Product Decisions:** [Summary]

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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Provenance

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Activeupdated 2 months ago

Capability

argument-hint
[company name] [purpose]
type
component
theme
market-intelligence
Other metadata
intent
Create a comprehensive company profile that extracts executive insights, product strategy, transformation initiatives, and organizational dynamics from publicly available sources. Use this to understand competitive landscape, evaluate partnership opportunities, benchmark best practices, prepare for interviews, or inform market entry decisions by understanding how successful companies think about product management and strategy.
best_for
[
  "Preparing for a PM interview with real company context",
  "Building a competitor or partner brief before a first meeting",
  "Understanding a company's product strategy from public signals"
]
scenarios
[
  "I have a PM interview next week and need real context on their product strategy",
  "We're meeting a potential partner and I need a brief on how they actually make money"
]
estimated_time
20-40 min

Topics

  • company-research
  • competitive-analysis
  • product-strategy
  • executive-insights
  • interview-prep
  • market-research
  • organizational-culture
  • partnership-evaluation

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What it does

Gathers executive quotes, product strategy, transformation initiatives, and organizational structure from public sources to build a strategic company profile. Use for competitive analysis, partnership evaluation, interview preparation, or understanding how established companies approach product management and market positioning.

Generated from the current SKILL.md.

Frequently asked

Does this skill help with financial analysis or valuation?
No. This skill focuses on product strategy and executive vision, not financial metrics or stock performance.
Can I use this for internal company research?
No. This skill is designed for external research on publicly available sources about other companies.
What if a company hasn't published executive interviews or earnings calls?
The skill won't work well without primary sources. It requires public statements from executives, not just marketing materials or secondary reporting.
Is this a substitute for customer research?
No. This skill captures how a company thinks about itself and its strategy, not how customers perceive or use the product.

Generated from the current SKILL.md. These answers refresh after source changes.