Discover Market

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name: discover-market
description: The market axis of the broad pass — sweep a domain wide for its visible structure: the segments, the ways money moves in the category, how people buy, and the observable sizes and spend, one line per entry with where it was observed. TRIGGER when a thread needs the domain's market structure enumerated before any one part is mined. DO NOT TRIGGER to mine one part deep (research-market), to enumerate the problems people voice (discover-problems), or to draw the competitive set (discover-competitors).
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# Discover Market

Run /discover; this adds only the market axis. discover owns the sweep, the trust check, the page gate, the find-with-search-record-from-the-page rule, the enumeration-only rule, and the write to `research/<subject>/discovery/` — hold to it and add only what follows.

Inputs: the one domain, named by its question, from the research `Brief.md` — nothing else. Excluded: owner facts, product facts, any persona or target buyer, and any solution shape — the market's structure is what the sweep finds, never a guess confirmed. The dispatch carries the domain only, with no reference to a sibling thread.

## The entry is a piece of the market's visible structure

The subject is the domain itself as a market. Sweep it wide and enumerate its visible structure long — one line per entry, each carrying where it was observed (the URL):

- **Segments** — the distinct sub-markets the domain splits into: the named tiers, verticals, and buyer bands the category itself talks about.
- **How money moves** — the ways the category is paid for as observed in the open: subscription, one-off, retainer, marketplace take, ad-supported, done-for-you — each an observed pricing or billing shape, not a guess.
- **How people buy** — the observed buying paths: self-serve signup, sales-led, through an agency, via a marketplace, through a community.
- **Observable sizes and spend** — the countable numbers the market shows about itself: category revenue figures, headcounts, subscriber or member counts, typical price points — each read off the page it sits on.

### Record the observed structure, never a market verdict
Each entry is a piece of structure observed on a page, never a claim that the market is big, growing, or worth entering. An observed price point is a record that one seller charges it, never the category's price. Whether a segment is a real market to enter is the judged-files step's, from these entries — never sized or ranked here.

### Enumerate the structure, name no competitor as the set
Naming a specific product only as an observed example of how money moves or how people buy is fine. Drawing the competitive set — who competes for this buyer's money — is discover-competitors' job, run as its own thread; never build that set here.