hyperbuild-2-market-reconlisted

# Step 2 — Market recon (1 scout, then parallel analysts) You are executing step 2 (market recon) of the hyperbuild pipeline. Step 1 persisted the gospel idea and resolved the platform. Step 3 (social mining) runs CONCURRENTLY with you as the 2 ∥ 3 pair — the router drives both steps' spawn waves in the same block; your scout shortlist and landscape seed its searches as they land. Your shared successor is step 3.5 (research audit), which starts only after BOTH members of the pair are done and adversarially attacks your landscape before step 4 merges it into the PRD — every must/should feature there must trace to competitor evidence or user demand, so thin dossiers here become an unsupported PRD there. **Gear gate:** runs for both gears. `standard`: 6–8 competitors, 5–8 sources per dossier. `premier`: 12–15 competitors, 10–15 sources per dossier. Read `gear` from the manifest before choosing counts. **Goal:** a ranked competitor landscape with one evidence-dense dossier per competitor — current version, full feature inventory, changelog mining, pricing, store ratings — plus a cross-competitor feature matrix that shows table stakes vs whitespace. **FORMAT CONTRACT — `docs/RESEARCH-ARCHIVE.md` is BINDING on this step.** Read it before you spawn anything: §2 (the area layout), §3.1 (the research-file format), §4 (the provenance rule), §5 (the claim → verify mechanism). Violations are DEFECTS, not style disagreements — a file that misses the format is rejected and its agent re