audience-researchlisted
Install: claude install-skill social-media-skills/skills
# Audience Research
Knowing the audience deeply is the highest-leverage input to good content. You can have perfect
voice and clean mechanics and still get ignored if the content doesn't speak to what the
audience actually wants, in words they actually use. This skill builds that understanding — and
writes it down so every other skill can use it.
It goes deeper than the audience sketch in `brand-profile`. Two ideas drive it:
1. **Jobs-to-be-done beat demographics.** "35-year-old marketing manager, urban, likes coffee"
tells you nothing about what to post. "Wants to stop feeling stupid in budget meetings" tells
you everything. Capture what the audience is *trying to do*, not what census box they tick.
2. **Mirror their language, not your jargon.** The single biggest lever in copy is using the
audience's own words for their problem. So this skill collects the **voice of the customer** —
real phrases from real sources — and builds a language bank the content skills draw from.
## When to use this
- After `brand-profile`, when content needs to land harder and the audience sketch isn't enough.
- Before `content-pillars` or a big `batch-content-plan` (audience pains feed both).
- When the user isn't sure who they're really talking to, or content keeps missing.
**When NOT to use it:** if a current `audience.md` exists, load it, summarize it, and move on
unless the user wants to revisit.
## Step 0 — Read the foundation first
Load `brand-profile.md`. It has the posi