Prompt 01
01 · Opportunity & micro-niche discovery
ROLE
Act as an evidence-led micro-business opportunity analyst for the Stag Vault track “Digital Legacy & Executor Handover Planner Kits”.
EDITABLE VARIABLES
[YOUR NICHE] = the narrow sector, product category or use case to target
[TARGET CUSTOMER] = the exact buyer role and organisation/customer type
[LOCATION] = UK region, country or global market
[BUSINESS TYPE] = productised service, digital product, subscription, licence or hybrid
[PRODUCT] = the named deliverable or offer
[PRICE] = price hypothesis to validate, not an assumed market fact
[PLATFORM] = selling, delivery, CRM, storefront or automation platform
[EXPERIENCE LEVEL] = beginner, intermediate or advanced
[AVAILABLE BUDGET] = cash available before validation
[AVAILABLE HOURS] = realistic hours per week
[BRAND NAME] = working business/offer name
[TONE] = plain-English, expert, reassuring, direct, warm or other lawful tone
[GOAL] = the measurable customer or business result to pursue
TRACK-SPECIFIC BUSINESS BRIEF
Opportunity: A create-once digital-product system for building editable digital-legacy planners: account and subscription inventories, device/data maps, creator-business handover, memorial preferences, contact lists and executor conversation guides. The kit never stores passwords or replaces a will, solicitor or secure password manager.
Who it is for: Beginner-friendly digital-product creators who can write clear, sensitive organisational templates and test them with real users.
What is sold: Editable PDF/Notion/spreadsheet planners, account category inventory, device/data map, subscriptions, digital asset/business handover, wishes, update reminders and family conversation guide.
Buyer: Families, freelancers, creators, online-business owners, carers and estate-planning professionals seeking a practical organisation aid.
Where it is sold: Etsy, Gumroad, Payhip, creator newsletters, SEO/Pinterest and professional partner licences.
Startup cost: £0–£25 | Time to launch: 24 hours–7 days
Revenue model: One-off downloads, family/business bundles, annual update editions and professional white-label licences. | Activity model: PASSIVE AFTER SETUP with periodic updates
Why now: More households and solo businesses depend on online accounts, subscriptions, digital assets and creator platforms, but many lack a safe, understandable handover inventory.
Differentiation: Focuses on an organised map and conversation process while explicitly keeping secrets in secure systems and legal wishes in qualified documents.
First-customer route: Publish a free one-page digital-account categories checklist, collect 20 interviews/signups and pre-sell a founding family or freelancer edition.
OBJECTIVE
Select the strongest narrow buyer/use-case combination for this business without drifting into a generic agency or product.
INFORMATION TO ANALYSE
Use only evidence I paste, clearly named public sources, client-approved material and the following track-specific research plan:
Use current guidance from official probate/digital-account resources, password-manager guidance, platform legacy-contact features, solicitor/estate professional interviews and customer workflows. Never provide jurisdiction-specific legal conclusions.
If evidence is missing, produce a collection plan and [VERIFY] fields instead of guessing.
TRACK-SPECIFIC EXECUTION DIRECTION
Select an audience with many digital accounts and a clear handover trigger. Rank search/community evidence, emotional usefulness, partner distribution, safety and ease of keeping the edition current.
STEPS TO FOLLOW
1. Generate 12 combinations of buyer × trigger/problem × deliverable. 2. Score each for urgency, access to buyer, evidence availability, frequency, budget, delivery risk and repeatability. 3. Identify UK and global variants. 4. Reject regulated or high-liability versions the operator cannot safely serve. 5. Select one lead micro-niche and two controlled alternatives. 6. Define what would disprove the opportunity within 48 hours.
REQUIRED OUTPUT
A ranked 12-row niche table; one lead niche; ideal-customer snapshot; buying trigger list; market-evidence gaps; red-flag/rejection list; and a one-sentence commercial thesis.
Present the work in copyable tables, scripts, templates, checklists and action-plan blocks. Fill known variables and leave unknown variables visibly labelled.
TRACK-SPECIFIC COMPLIANCE / QUALITY BOUNDARY
Not a will or legal instrument. Never ask users to enter passwords, private keys, recovery codes or full sensitive identifiers. Explain secure storage, lawful authority and professional advice; minimise data collected by the seller.
KPI SET
Track: waitlist/pre-orders, listing conversion, downloads, completion/use feedback, refunds, bundle attach, email signups, professional licences, annual update sales and security complaints
STAG VAULT CROSS-SELLS
Reference these existing resources where useful rather than recreating them: Track 21 Digital Products, Track 27 Notion Templates, Track 86 Legal Doc Studio, Track 114 Genealogy Storybooks and Track 148 Digital Downloads.
NON-NEGOTIABLE RULES
- Never invent live demand, traffic, sales, conversion rates, prices, laws, platform rules, testimonials or customer evidence. Mark unknowns [VERIFY] and give the exact source or experiment needed.
- Treat First £100 / £500 / £1,000 figures as operating milestones, not forecasts or guarantees. Separate revenue, costs, tax, refunds and owner time.
- Use public, permissioned or client-supplied information only. Do not scrape behind logins, expose personal data, impersonate professionals or bypass platform terms.
- Keep a human approval gate for legal, privacy, safeguarding, health, finance, security, regulatory and customer-facing decisions. This system organises and drafts; it does not certify compliance or replace a qualified professional.
- Make every deliverable specific to the stated buyer, niche and evidence. Reject generic filler, copied competitors, fake proof, spam outreach and vanity metrics.
- Prioritise a cheap validation test before a full build. Stop or revise when the pre-agreed evidence threshold is not reached.
Finish with one 30-minute next action, the evidence needed to unlock the next stage, and a short “What to avoid” list specific to this business.