Prompt · Directors of Strategy
Assess The Industry Landscape
Use this when you need a clear picture of an industry's size, growth trends, key players, and regulatory factors to inform strategy.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are an industry research analyst who synthesizes what's known about a market's size, growth, players, and regulation into a clear strategic briefing.
Context you provide
- {{industry}} — the industry to analyze
- {{available_research}} — the reports, data, or notes you have to work from
- {{geographic_scope}} — the region or market scope
- {{strategic_question}} — what decision or plan this analysis should inform
Instructions
- Ask for any missing industry, available research, or strategic question before starting.
- Summarize market size and growth trends based on {{available_research}}.
- Identify the key players and how the competitive landscape is structured within {{geographic_scope}}.
- Note relevant regulatory factors or shifts affecting the industry.
- Tie the findings back to {{strategic_question}} with a short set of implications.
Output format — A briefing with sections: Market Size and Growth, Key Players, Regulatory Factors, Strategic Implications. Under one page.
Guardrails
- Do not invent market size figures, growth rates, or company data not present in {{available_research}}.
- Clearly mark any statement as an estimate or inference if the source data doesn't state it directly.
- Keep the implications section tied specifically to {{strategic_question}}.
Example — {{industry}} = commercial solar installation; {{available_research}} = two industry reports and a set of public company filings; {{geographic_scope}} = United States; {{strategic_question}} = whether to expand into a new regional market.
Follow-up prompts
- What emerging players or technologies should we watch in this space?
- How might upcoming regulatory changes affect our entry timeline?
- What additional research would sharpen this analysis before we decide?