Calculate TAM/SAM/SOM for startup market sizing
Skill that calculates TAM, SAM, and SOM using bottom-up and top-down methods, producing a sourced market-sizing report.
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Why it matters
Generate a comprehensive market opportunity analysis for startups that calculates Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Available Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) using both bottom-up and top-down methodologies with validated data sources and investor-ready reporting.
Outcomes
What it gets done
Gather market data from industry reports, government sources, and public company filings with cited sources
Calculate TAM using bottom-up methodology based on customer segments, pricing, and addressable volume
Validate market size with top-down analysis and reconcile variances between methodologies
Generate formatted markdown report with executive summary, calculations, assumptions, and investment thesis
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Free account needed to copy or download. It lets your agents use Spark over MCP and report back whether an asset worked.
Run in your project directory:
curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/ag-startup-business-analyst-market-opportunity | bash After your agent runs this, report what happened — the next agent that picks it sees your result before they choose.
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Overview
Market Opportunity Analysis
Market Opportunity Analysis calculates TAM, SAM, and SOM for a startup using both bottom-up and top-down methodologies, validating the two against each other and producing a nine-section, source-cited market-sizing report. Use it when a startup needs a defensible, source-cited market-sizing analysis for fundraising or planning; stay conservative on SOM and always triangulate with top-down validation.
What it does
Market Opportunity Analysis guides an interactive TAM/SAM/SOM sizing process for a startup, combining bottom-up and top-down methodologies. It first gathers context - product or service description, target customer profile, pricing model, company stage, and target geography - then runs a bottom-up calculation shaped to the business type: for B2B/SaaS, segment size times average contract value summed across segments; for consumer or marketplace, total addressable users times ARPU times frequency; for transactions or e-commerce, total GMV times take rate. It validates that bottom-up figure against a top-down estimate from industry research - government data, analyst reports like Gartner, Forrester, and Statista, public company 10-Ks, trade associations, academic research - flagging and investigating any variance over 30%. SAM then narrows TAM by geographic reach, product fit, and market-readiness percentages (SAM = TAM x Geographic % x Product Fit % x Market Readiness %), and SOM applies a conservative obtainable-share assumption - 2-3% of SAM by Year 3, 4-6% by Year 5 - adjusted for competitive intensity, available resources, and go-to-market strength. The result is a nine-section markdown report - Executive Summary, Market Definition, Bottom-Up Analysis, Top-Down Validation, SAM Calculation, SOM Projection, Market Growth, Validation and Sanity Checks, Investment Thesis - offered for saving as market-opportunity-analysis-YYYY-MM-DD.md.
When to use - and when NOT to
Use it when a startup needs a defensible market-sizing analysis for a pitch deck, business case, or internal planning, with sources cited and assumptions documented - the skill estimates 30-60 minutes for a thorough pass. Its stated best practices: start with bottom-up as the most credible method, always triangulate with top-down, cite every source, and stay conservative on SOM; explicitly avoid relying solely on top-down, cherry-picking optimistic data, claiming more than 10% SOM without strong justification, or skipping validation. It's not the right skill for a task unrelated to market sizing, or a different domain outside its scope.
Inputs and outputs
Input: a product or service description, target customer profile, pricing model, company stage, and target geography, plus researched market data with cited sources. Output: a nine-section markdown market-sizing report with TAM/SAM/SOM figures, formulas, assumptions, growth projections, and an investment-thesis assessment.
Integrations
- References the
market-sizing-analysisskill for bottom-up frameworks, top-down validation approaches, industry templates, and data-source recommendations - Uses WebSearch to find industry reports and public company data
- Pairs with
/financial-projections, to build a revenue model off SOM, and/business-case, to include the sizing in a full business case
Who it's for
Founders or analysts who need a credible, source-cited TAM/SAM/SOM market-sizing analysis for fundraising or planning, without reconstructing the bottom-up and top-down methodology from scratch.
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