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Map expert consensus before entering a market

Ask one question — "is this market saturated?" — and get a grounded answer built from what practitioners actually say, with timestamped citations.

Founder / CEOMarket & Competitor Researchdeep_query
The use case

The problem

You're about to bet a year of your life on a market thesis. The analyst reports are eighteen months old, the blog posts are content marketing, and your network gives you three enthusiastic opinions from three people who'd love to be right. What you actually want is unglamorous: what do the people operating in this market say about it when they talk for an hour?

That conversation exists — hundreds of times over. Operators, investors and burned founders dissect every market on podcasts and conference stages with a candor that never makes it into writing. The consensus (and the dissent, which matters more) is sitting in those transcripts. Nobody has time to watch two hundred hours of it. You don't have to.

The mechanics

How veridive MCP helps

deep_query is built for exactly this shape of question. Give it your market thesis as a research prompt and it runs the full pipeline — search, select, transcribe, retrieve, generate — across the spoken record, then answers with inline citations pinned to the second of each source video.

The answer you get back isn't an average of takes. Ask for the disagreement explicitly and it maps the terrain: who says the market is saturated and why, who says the incumbents are vulnerable and where, which risks come up in every conversation and which only worry one loud person. For a decision this size, the shape of expert disagreement is worth more than any single opinion — and you get it in minutes, verifiable at every claim.

Step by step

How to run it

  1. 1
    Connect veridive MCP

    One-time setup: add the veridive MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client and generate your API key. Takes about two minutes.

  2. 2
    Ask the thesis question

    Phrase it the way you'd ask a room of operators. deep_query researches across the spoken record and returns a grounded answer with citations.

    I'm considering entering the <market> space. What do operators and investors who talk about this market actually say about saturation, margins and what's still unsolved? Cite your sources — use veridive's deep_query.
  3. 3
    Map the disagreement

    Consensus is comfortable; dissent is informative. Ask for the split explicitly and get both camps, cited.

    Where do experts disagree about <market>? Lay out the strongest bull case and the strongest bear case, each with citations to who said it and where.
  4. 4
    Pressure-test your specific angle

    Now narrow to your wedge. The answer tells you whether your differentiator is genuinely uncovered or a graveyard everyone has already visited.

    Has anyone tried <your specific angle> in this market? What happened, and what do people say about why?
Before vs after

Problems it solves

  • Market research that's actually available is either stale (reports), biased (vendor content) or anecdotal (your network).
  • The candid assessments live in hours-long conversations nobody has time to watch systematically.
  • Enthusiasm bias: the takes that reach you are from people excited about the space — the warnings stay buried in podcast minute 47.
  • You can't tell whether your "contrarian" angle is genuinely uncovered or just well-documented failure.
The payoff

Why it's valuable

  • A decision-grade consensus map in minutes, built from primary spoken sources instead of thirdhand summaries.
  • Dissent comes labeled: you see who disagrees and their actual reasoning, cited to the moment they said it.
  • Claims are verifiable — before the thesis goes in your pitch deck, you can watch the source say it.
  • Repeatable: re-ask quarterly and watch the consensus move while you build.
Copy & paste

Example prompts

What do operators actually say about the <market> space — saturation, margins, unsolved problems? Cite sources — use veridive's deep_query.
Strongest bull case vs strongest bear case for <market>, each cited to who said it and where.
Has anyone tried <your angle> in <market>? What do people say about why it worked or didn't?
Questions

FAQ

How is this better than asking a general AI assistant?

A plain LLM answer is a vibe with no receipts. deep_query grounds every claim in a real video with a timestamp — you can watch the operator say it before you repeat it to your co-founder or your board.

What kind of sources does it draw from?

The spoken web: operator podcasts, conference talks, investor interviews, post-mortems. Exactly the conversations where people are candid in ways they never are in writing.

Is one prompt really enough for a market-entry decision?

It's the fastest honest first pass, not the whole diligence. Use it to map the terrain and find the load-bearing claims — then verify the ones your decision actually rests on at the cited timestamps.

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Run this in your own assistant

Connect the veridive MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and paste the prompts above — setup takes about two minutes.