Company Brief Skill

Walking into an interview without understanding the business is the fastest way to look like you're just collecting offers. This skill assembles a candidate's research brief — what the company does, how it makes money, where it's heading, and the challenges you'd be hired to help with — so you can speak to their reality and ask questions that signal you've done the work.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

• Company name (and website/ticker if helpful).
• The role you're interviewing for — so the brief focuses on what's relevant to that job.
• What you already know / found — paste any research, news, or notes you have (this skill structures and reasons over it).

Note: ground this in real, provided information. Where current facts aren't supplied, say so and mark inferences as assumptions — don't fabricate funding rounds, metrics, or news.

Output Format

Company Brief: [company] — prepping for [role]

1. What they do & how they make money — the business in plain terms: product, customers, and the revenue model. If you can't tell how they make money, that's itself worth noting.

2. Trajectory & recent news — stage, growth signals, funding/earnings, launches, leadership changes (from the info provided). Where it's clearly heading.

3. Product & competitors — the core product, who they compete with, and their differentiation (or lack of it).

4. Likely challenges — the 2–3 problems this company is probably grappling with that this role would touch. This is the gold: it's what you'll speak to in the interview.