{ "schema": "aiblocks-page/1", "id": "agency-product-trend-researcher", "type": "agent", "name": "Trend researcher agent", "summary": "Find out if a product trend is real and worth acting on. Get a brief with the evidence, its stage, adoption risks and next steps.", "headline": "Trend researcher agent", "subhead": "Name a trend or market you are weighing, and paste the data you have, such as search interest, articles, reviews or rival launches. It tests whether the trend is real, early or fading. You get a trend brief with the evidence, the risks and a clear next step.", "job": { "id": "research-topics", "name": "Research a topic properly" }, "level": "intermediate", "thinking": "high", "tested": true, "updated": "2026-11-03", "first_published": "2026-10-26", "inputs": [ { "type": "question", "required": true, "label": "Question", "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like" }, { "type": "source_text", "required": false, "label": "Source text", "what": "a long source in full: an article, a video or talk transcript, or notes from a book, with its title, author and link" } ], "outputs": [ { "type": "audit_report", "required": true, "label": "Audit report", "what": "findings with evidence, severity, missing inputs and next actions" }, { "type": "document", "required": true, "label": "Document", "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes" } ], "you_give": [ "The trend, market or product idea to study, and the decision it should help with", "Any data you already have, such as search interest, articles, reviews, rival pages or survey results", "Who your customer is and where you sell (optional)", "The date range and the places to look, such as one country (optional)" ], "you_get": [ "A trend brief with a clear verdict and what it rests on", "An evidence table listing each signal, its source, date and how much weight it carries", "A stage call and the forces that push the trend or hold it back", "Adoption risks, assumptions and what would change the verdict", "Next steps, from cheap tests to bigger moves" ], "use_when": [ "You are choosing what product or feature to build next and want to know if demand is rising or a short fad.", "A rival launched something new and you need to know if it signals a wider shift.", "You are about to enter a market and want to know how big it is and how early you would be.", "An investor or your team asks \"why now?\" and you have no evidence written down." ], "skip_when": [ "You want to pull findings from a pile of papers or reports into one summary. Use the Research evidence reviewer.", "You want live market numbers, such as exact market size or a financial forecast. It needs real data from you, and a financial adviser should review any plan that relies on it.", "You want to see what people say about your brand on X. Use the X research analyst.", "You want to compare tools you could buy. Use the Software tool comparison planner." ], "output_sample": { "input": [ "The trend, market or product idea, and the decision", "Data you already have, such as search interest, articles or reviews", "Your customer and where you sell (optional)", "The date range and places to look (optional)" ], "prerequisites": [ "An AI that can search the web, if you have no data to paste" ], "output": [ { "name": "Verdict", "contains": "Whether the trend looks real, early, crowded, unproven or fading, with confidence and one reason." }, { "name": "Evidence table", "contains": "Each signal with its source, date, what it shows and how much weight it carries." }, { "name": "Stage and forces", "contains": "The trend's stage, what pushes it and what holds it back." }, { "name": "Market size", "contains": "Sizing steps built only from figures you supplied, each marked estimate or fact." }, { "name": "Adoption risks", "contains": "What could stop people from adopting, who it affects and how to test it." }, { "name": "Next steps", "contains": "A small test first, a bigger move after it and what to keep watching." } ] }, "output_shape": "TREND BRIEF: \n\nDECISION\n | \n\nVERDICT\n | | \n\nEVIDENCE TABLE\n | | | \n\nSTAGE AND FORCES\n Stage | Pushing it | Holding it back \n\nMARKET SIZE (only if figures were supplied)\n | | \n\nADOPTION RISKS\n | | \n\nASSUMPTIONS AND WHAT WOULD CHANGE THE VERDICT\n \n\nNEXT STEPS\n | | \n\nCHECKS STILL NEEDED\n ", "how_to_use": [ "Download the pack from this page and add it to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, paste SKILL.md into a new chat, then paste references/source-agent.md.", "Say what trend or market you are studying and what you will decide. Paste the data you have, or say that your AI can search the web.", "Type \"Make the trend brief. Show the source and date for every signal. Mark estimates as estimates.\"", "Read the verdict and the evidence table together. Check that more than one kind of signal agrees.", "Open two of the sources it cites. Add what you know about your customers, then ask it to run the brief again.", "Use the next steps list for a small test first, such as a landing page or a customer call." ], "checks": [ "The result addresses your actual task and cites the evidence used.", "Examples, role-play experience and targets are kept separate from verified results.", "Claims of tests, memory, tool access or completed actions match what actually happened." ], "next": [ { "name": "Research paper discovery reviewer", "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/research-topic-watcher", "why": "Research paper discovery reviewer" } ], "source": { "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors", "repo": "msitarzewski/agency-agents", "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/product/product-trend-researcher.md", "licence": "MIT", "original_name": "Trend Researcher", "commit": "b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219" }, "credits": [ { "title": "Trend Researcher", "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors", "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/product/product-trend-researcher.md", "used": "Original agent profile, preserved in references/source-agent.md; AI Blocks adds setup and review instructions." } ], "files": [ "LICENSE", "references/source-agent.md", "SETUP.md", "source.json" ], "links": { "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/agents/agency-product-trend-researcher", "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/agents/agency-product-trend-researcher.md", "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/agents/agency-product-trend-researcher.json", "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/agency-product-trend-researcher/SKILL.md", "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/agency-product-trend-researcher.zip", "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/agency-product-trend-researcher", "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/agent/agency-product-trend-researcher", "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp" } }