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Strategy & research skills for AI agents

Work out who you sell to, what makes you different and what to do next. These skills turn interviews, reviews, competitor sites and your own numbers into a plan you can act on this week.

Free · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor

All Strategy & research skills

13 skills · most upvoted first
Strategy & research

Competitor research

Profile competitors from their sites and search footprint: positioning, offers, content themes, keywords, links and gaps to exploit.

695
Strategy & research

Offer design

Design an irresistible offer: value framing, bonuses, guarantees, urgency that is real, and how to present it.

692
Strategy & research

Market sizing

Estimate TAM, SAM and SOM bottom-up and top-down, with stated assumptions, to size goals and budgets.

675
Strategy & research

Marketing psychology

Apply behavioural principles (social proof, anchoring, loss aversion, defaults) to pages, offers and emails, ethically.

661
Strategy & research

Expert panel review

Score and improve any copy, plan or campaign with a simulated panel of expert reviewers until it clears a quality bar.

615
Strategy & research

Marketing ideas

Generate and rank marketing ideas that fit the business, budget and stage, with the first step for each.

614
Strategy & research

Positioning & messaging

Sharpen positioning, value proposition and messaging hierarchy, and keep brand guidelines consistent across channels.

595
Strategy & research

Brand protection

Respond to fake websites, phishing pages and impersonation of the brand: collect evidence, report in parallel, warn customers and win back branded search.

588
Strategy & research

Marketing audit

Score a website's marketing end to end (message, SEO, AI visibility, conversion, social, email) and rank the fixes.

585
Strategy & research

Pricing & packaging

Choose pricing model, tiers, value metric and the pricing page, and plan price changes.

548
Strategy & research

Brand & product naming

Find and vet names for a business, product or feature: meaning, pronunciation across markets, domain and trademark checks.

536
Strategy & research

Marketing plan

A practical marketing plan: goals, audience, channels, budget, 90-day roadmap and the CMO.so autopilot as the engine for content.

515
Strategy & research

Customer research & ICP

Build the ideal customer profile and personas from interviews, reviews and data: pains, triggers, objections and their words.

491
What you can do

An everyday job for every Strategy & research skill

Paste a prompt into your agent. It picks the skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

  1. 01

    Size up your competitors

    How each competitor positions itself, what it offers, what it publishes and where it's weak.

    Ask your agentProfile my three main competitors and tell me where I can win.
    Uses Competitor research →
  2. 02

    Sharpen what you say

    A clear value proposition and messaging hierarchy you can reuse on every page and post.

    Ask your agentRewrite my positioning so a first-time visitor gets it in five seconds.
    Uses Positioning & messaging →
  3. 03

    Turn it into a 90-day plan

    Goals, channels, budget and a week-by-week roadmap for the next quarter.

    Ask your agentMake a 90-day marketing plan for a bakery with £500 a month.
    Uses Marketing plan →
  4. 04

    Know who your customer really is

    An ideal customer profile and personas built from real reviews and interviews, with their pains and triggers.

    Ask your agentBuild my ideal customer profile from these 20 customer reviews.
    Uses Customer research & ICP →
  5. 05

    Offer design

    A diagnosis of the current offer against the value levers and the six components

    Ask your agentOur offer isn't converting
    Open the skill →
  6. 06

    Market sizing

    Market definition with explicit scope

    Ask your agentHow big is this market
    Open the skill →
  7. 07

    Marketing psychology

    A behavioural diagnosis: where the asset adds friction or misses a lever

    Ask your agentIs this nudge ethical or a dark pattern?
    Open the skill →
  8. 08

    Expert panel review

    A scored review by 5-8 simulated expert lenses with one-line reasons

    Ask your agentExpert panel this
    Open the skill →
  9. 09

    Marketing ideas

    A shortlist of 3-7 ideas ranked by fit and expected impact

    Ask your agentGive me marketing ideas
    Open the skill →
  10. 10

    Brand protection

    An evidence pack per suspect site or account

    Ask your agentSomeone made a fake copy of our website
    Open the skill →
  11. 11

    Marketing audit

    A scored audit across six areas with evidence for each score

    Ask your agentAudit our marketing
    Open the skill →
  12. 12

    Pricing & packaging

    A recommended value metric, tier structure and price points with reasoning

    Ask your agentHow should we price this?
    Open the skill →
  13. 13

    Brand & product naming

    A one-paragraph naming brief written before any names

    Ask your agentHelp me name my company
    Open the skill →
How to use them

Set up in a minute, then just ask

  1. 1Install all 13 Strategy & research skills

    In Claude Code, run these two commands. Other agents: copy a skill's folder into their skills directory.

    /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills/plugin install cmo-so-strategy@cmo-so
  2. 2Ask in plain words

    No special syntax. The agent reads each skill's description and picks the one that fits.

    “Profile my three main competitors and tell me where I can win.”
  3. 3Get finished work

    The agent asks what it needs, follows the skill's steps and checks, and hands back the result the skill promises.

Works with
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Google Gemini
  • Windsurf
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Any agent that reads SKILL.md
FAQ

Questions about Strategy & research skills

What they do, what they cost and how to use them with your agent.

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Where should a new business start?

Start with customer research, then positioning, then the marketing plan. Each skill reads what the previous one produced, so the plan rests on who your customers are rather than guesses.

If you're short on time, the marketing audit gives a quick score of where you stand today and the few changes that matter most, which is a good way to choose where to begin.

Can these skills check my pricing?

Yes. Pricing & packaging helps choose the pricing model, tiers and value metric, design the pricing page and plan a price change without upsetting existing customers.

Offer design then builds the offer around it, with bonuses, guarantees and urgency that's real. Both state their assumptions so you can check them against your own numbers.

Are these Strategy & research skills free?

Yes. All 13 are open source under the MIT licence, so you can use, change and share them, including for client work, without paying or asking permission.

Where a skill adapts someone else's open work, its page credits the source and the licence. Repos with a copyleft licence are only used for ideas, and repos with no licence aren't used at all.

Which AI agents can use them?

Claude Code installs them from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use them by copying the folder into its skills directory.

The core skills also work in Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients through the cmo.so MCP server, so you can use whichever assistant you already have.

How do I install all the Strategy & research skills at once?

In Claude Code, add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then install the group with /plugin install cmo-so-strategy@cmo-so. That adds all 13 skills in one go.

Ask in plain words afterwards and the agent picks the skill that fits. For other agents, copy the folders of the skills you want from GitHub into the agent's skills directory.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use them?

No. The Strategy & research skills work on their own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

A free cmo.so account only matters if you want Maggie to plan, write and publish for your website too. The core skills connect your agent to it, and every change is shown to you before it happens.

Do I need to write my own prompts?

No. Ask for the outcome you want in plain words and the agent picks the right skill, asks for anything it's missing and follows the skill's steps.

If you'd like a starting point, the section above lists an everyday job for every skill on this page with a prompt you can copy. Words in a highlight are the ones to change for your business.

How is a skill different from a prompt?

A prompt is one request. A skill is the method behind the job: the questions to ask first, the order of the steps, the quality checks and the format of the result.

That's what makes the answer reliable. The skill stops the agent skipping research, inventing numbers or handing back something you can't use, and you can read every step it will take.

Can I change a skill to fit my business?

Yes. A skill is a plain Markdown file, so you can edit its steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Is my data sent anywhere?

No. A skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so, for example when you use the core skills through the MCP server with your account.

How do the skills stay up to date?

They're maintained in the public cmo-so-skills repo and synced to this site, so new and improved skills show up here as soon as they ship. In Claude Code, update the marketplace to pick them up.

Upvotes and downvotes show us which skills people rely on, and those are the first we improve.

What if no skill does what I need?

Suggest an open-source repo on the skills page: Maggie reads it, checks the licence and decides whether to add it as a new skill, use it to improve one, or put it to a vote.

You can also browse the other categories below; many jobs span more than one, and the agent can combine skills in a single request.

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