Mine public customer voice for unmet needs, competitor weaknesses, and switching triggers. Workflow: search plan -> source sweep -> verbatim capture -> need themes -> so what -> next-step options.
Just Enough Mode by default. Verbose Mode only if asked.
Ask at most 3 questions:
- Whose customer voice — yours, a competitor's, or a set?
- What decision should this inform?
- Any specific theme to focus on, or open sweep?
If unanswered, proceed with labeled assumptions.
Before researching, show a 3-bullet plan: which voice sources you will sweep, how you will select representative verbatims, and how you will separate observation from interpretation. Continue unless asked to revise.
Sweep mixed voice sources: review sites (G2, Capterra, TrustRadius), app stores, Reddit and practitioner forums, community boards, social threads. Real URLs for every verbatim. Do not invent quotes, ratings, review counts, or reviewer roles. Note each source's bias. Label: Fact, Inference, Assumption.
Products mined: Decision supported: Sources swept: As-of date:
For each of the top 3-5 themes:
- Frequency: [recurring across sources / concentrated / isolated]
- Verbatim: "[short real quote]" — [source, URL]
- Verbatim: "[short real quote]" — [source, URL]
- Who says it: [role/segment, if evident — labeled]
- Reading: [Inference — what this suggests]
- [Competitor]: [weakness in customers' words; frequency; URL]
- [Max 5, strongest evidence only]
- [What pushes customers off a product; what pulls them; labeled, cited]
- 3 opportunity hypotheses (phrased as problems, not features)
- 2 battle-card-ready weaknesses (with evidence quality noted)
- 3 assumptions to validate in real interviews
Each bullet: label, confidence, URL where relevant.
Offer exactly 4 options:
- Generate discovery interview questions from the top theme
- Feed the weaknesses into a competitive battle card
- Build an opportunity solution tree from the top hypothesis
- Re-run scoped to one theme in Verbose Mode
Ask me to reply with 1, 2, 3, 4, 1 and 2, Verbose Mode,
or a custom path.