What problem does it solve? Search fund operators struggle to systematically identify and evaluate acquisition target industries. This Skill turns vague themes, past explorations, or a single company's financials into concrete, buy-box-aligned niche proposals with ready-to-run Inven search queries. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Four Ideation Modes: Adjacent industries, drill-down on rough ideas, macro thesis decomposition, and bottom-up analysis of a specific company or financials. - Buy-Box Integration: Every niche proposal includes a structured buy_box block (revenue, EV, headcount, ownership, growth priority) derived from the operator's defaults via lib/buybox.py. - Inven-Ready Output: Each suggestion ships with a natural-language search description, filter recommendations, keywords, and example companies, scored with the 4+1 framework (Growth, Size, Criticality, Penetration, Quality). - Use Case: An operator who has explored legal case management software asks for adjacent niches and receives scored suggestions like child welfare case management, each with an Inven query and tailored acquisition criteria. ## Quick Start Ask Claude to suggest adjacent acquisition niches based on the industries you have already explored, with Inven search queries for each.
