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You get five to ten gap ideas ranked, each with what page 1 shows now and how yours would be better.","area":"product","family":{"id":"sell-on-amazon","name":"Sell on Amazon"},"lead":"find-an-amazon-product-gap-and-check-it-will-pay","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["Five to ten gap ideas ranked, each with what page 1 shows now and how yours would be better","The three ideas worth a full check, and the ones dropped, each with a reason","A score out of 100 for the idea you pick, built from ten tests, with the weakest test named","A go, test first or no-go call, the cheapest next test and a first order sized to your cash"],"inputs":["A hobby, problem or Amazon category, and whether you will make the product or only brand it","How much cash you can put into a first order","A keyword tool export with monthly searches, such as one from Helium 10, which has a free tier with capped lookups (optional)","What page 1 shows for your ideas, such as prices, ratings and review counts, pasted in (optional)","After the pause, a supplier quote with unit cost, size, weight and your selling price"],"opening":{"give":["How much cash you can put into a first order","What page 1 shows for your ideas, such as prices, ratings and review counts, pasted in (optional)","After the pause, a supplier quote with unit cost, size, weight and your selling price"],"get":["Five to ten gap ideas ranked, each with what page 1 shows now and how yours would be better","The three ideas worth a full check, and the ones dropped, each with a reason","A score out of 100 for the idea you pick, built from ten tests, with the weakest test named","A go, test first or no-go call, the cheapest next test and a first order sized to your cash"]},"helpfulInputs":["Your cash limit and the most you can afford to lose on a first order","A supplier quote with landed cost, size and weight","A paste of page 1 for your best phrase"],"fit":["You want to sell on Amazon but only have an interest or a category, and need a product to start from.","You have a supplier quote in hand and want to know if the margin and the competition still make sense.","You are about to pay for a first order and want a second opinion on whether your cash can carry it.","A product idea looks good on page 1, but you have not worked out fees, shipping and ad cost."],"limits":["You already have a product and want fees and profit per unit. Use the Amazon seller profit calculator.","You resell other brands through wholesale or arbitrage. The scoring covers private label only.","You sell a service, an app or something off Amazon. Use the Target market and pricing reviewer workflow.","You have a go and want to launch. Use the Amazon product launch preparation workflow."],"tools":["Helium 10: A keyword and product database with a title-competition filter and reverse ASIN lookup. It has a free tier with capped lookups, so check current limits. A paid plan is optional.","Google Trends: Free. Shows whether interest in a topic is rising before you check the same phrase on Amazon.","Seller Central fee calculator: Amazon's own tool shows current referral and fulfilment fees for your size and weight.","Helium 10: A keyword and product database with a title-competition filter and a reverse ASIN lookup, which the source uses. It has a free tier with capped lookups, so check current limits.","Amazon search box: Free. Type each letter of the alphabet after your seed word to read the autocomplete suggestions.","Helium 10: A research database with the filters the sources use (ungated, price, revenue, review count, listing age, image count). It has a free tier, so check current limits.","Seller Central fee calculator: Amazon's own revenue calculator shows current referral and fulfilment fees for your size and weight.","Any good chat AI: Runs the score from your pasted numbers and page 1 text."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.","Give the folder to your AI, such as Claude, and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\". Use one that can read files.","Tell it what you can make or brand and how much cash you have. Add a keyword export and page 1 notes if you have them.","When it pauses, pick one idea from the shortlist. Check the phrase on Amazon yourself, then get a supplier quote and write down cost, size, weight and your price.","Give it the quote. Read the weakest test before the verdict, and check current fees in Seller Central before you order."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Find the search gaps","description":"Notes what you can make and what cash you have, reads your keyword and page 1 data, drops crowded niches and ranks the gaps. Names three to check and lists what to verify by hand. Hands step 2 the shortlist and the page 1 evidence."},{"name":"Pick one and get a quote","description":"A pause. You choose one idea from the shortlist and get a supplier quote with its cost, size, weight and your selling price."},{"name":"Score the idea","description":"Applies five hard stops that end an idea, then scores ten tests, including price band, margin, page 1 weakness, brand giants and shipping. It sizes the first order to your cash and gives a go, test first or no-go."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.","Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.","Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.","Define how success will be measured before building."],"pitfalls":["Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.","Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.","Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","Step 2 used the idea the person picked and the page 1 evidence from step 1.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line, and no volume, revenue or review figure is made up.","Where the sources disagree on a threshold, such as the price floor, both views are shown.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every requirement can be tested.","Assumptions and risks are listed with how each will be checked."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":5,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You want to sell on Amazon but only have an interest or a category, and need a product to start from.","task":"Give it a hobby, problem or Amazon category, and whether you will make the product or only brand it. 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Get ranked product-gap ideas and the evidence needed to test them.","method":"amazon-search-gap-finder","when":["You want to sell on Amazon but have no product yet, only an interest.","You have a product category in mind and want to know which niche inside it is open.","You have a keyword tool export and need it read line by line for gaps."],"inputs":["An interest, hobby, diet, problem or Amazon category","A keyword tool export for your idea (optional, but it gives the best result)","Page 1 results for each idea, pasted or described (optional)","Your budget, and whether you will make the product or only brand it (optional)"],"deliverables":["A ranked list of 5 to 10 gap ideas, each with the phrase, the volume, what page 1 shows and the gap","The 3 ideas worth a full viability check, and which ideas were dropped and why","A short list of search phrases for you to verify by hand"]},{"name":"Amazon product viability scorer","description":"Share a product idea and costs. 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Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-find-an-amazon-product-gap-and-check-it-will-pay\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped amazon product gap and viability reviewer task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Amazon product gap and viability reviewer\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/find-an-amazon-product-gap-and-check-it-will-pay · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it a hobby, problem or Amazon category, and whether you will make the product or only brand it. You get five to ten gap ideas ranked, each with what page 1 shows now and how yours would be better.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- Five to ten gap ideas ranked, each with what page 1 shows now and how yours would be better\n- The three ideas worth a full check, and the ones dropped, each with a reason\n- A score out of 100 for the idea you pick, built from ten tests, with the weakest test named\n- A go, test first or no-go call, the cheapest next test and a first order sized to your cash\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Find the search gaps: Notes what you can make and what cash you have, reads your keyword and page 1 data, drops crowded niches and ranks the gaps. Names three to check and lists what to verify by hand. Hands step 2 the shortlist and the page 1 evidence.\n2. Pick one and get a quote: A pause. You choose one idea from the shortlist and get a supplier quote with its cost, size, weight and your selling price.\n3. Score the idea: Applies five hard stops that end an idea, then scores ten tests, including price band, margin, page 1 weakness, brand giants and shipping. It sizes the first order to your cash and gives a go, test first or no-go.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.\n- Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.\n- Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.\n- Define how success will be measured before building.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.\n- Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.\n- Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You want to sell on Amazon but only have an interest or a category, and need a product to start from.\nGiven: A hobby, problem or Amazon category; Whether you will make or only brand the product, and your cash for a first order; A keyword tool export and page 1 notes (optional); After the pause, your supplier quote with cost, size, weight and price\nA strong result contains:\n- Gap ideas: Five to ten searched phrases that page 1 serves badly, ranked, with the one change that would beat page 1.\n- Top 3 and dropped ideas: Which ideas deserve a full check, and each dropped idea with its reason.\n- Verify by hand: Phrases to type into Amazon yourself, and what to look for on page 1.\n- Viability score: A score out of 100 from ten tests, with the weakest test and any hard stop.\n- Verdict and next test: Go, test first or no-go, a first order sized to your cash and the cheapest next test.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- Step 2 used the idea the person picked and the page 1 evidence from step 1.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line, and no volume, revenue or review figure is made up.\n- Where the sources disagree on a threshold, such as the price floor, both views are shown.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Limits\n- You already have a product and want fees and profit per unit. Use the Amazon seller profit calculator.\n- You resell other brands through wholesale or arbitrage. The scoring covers private label only.\n- You sell a service, an app or something off Amazon. Use the Target market and pricing reviewer workflow.\n- You have a go and want to launch. Use the Amazon product launch preparation workflow.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its product context, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: what the product does, who it is for, current goals and constraints, and the user evidence available (research, tickets, analytics). Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If product context is needed, reuse an existing product brief or use the context method to write a reviewed product context file from supplied facts: skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md. Files: product-context.md, work/evidence.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nSeparate user evidence from opinions and requests. Record goals, constraints, owners and decisions already made so they are not reopened by accident. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/find-an-amazon-product-gap-and-check-it-will-pay/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Amazon product gap and viability reviewer (primary): [complete method](../find-an-amazon-product-gap-and-check-it-will-pay/SKILL.md), revision 8a38a5bde77d\n- Amazon product opportunity finder: [complete method](../amazon-search-gap-finder/SKILL.md), revision 32935f23e884\n- Amazon product viability scorer: [complete method](../amazon-product-viability-scorer/SKILL.md), revision 748eabf2f9a3\n- Amazon fee and margin checker (support method): [complete method](../amazon-fee-and-margin-checker/SKILL.md), revision ebdb894cb2c1\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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