Firecrawl Market Research
Pull sourced market, financial, and industry metrics into a structured report while validating a product or niche alone.
Overview
Firecrawl Market Research is an agent skill most often used in Idea (also Validate) that extracts market, financial, and industry metrics via Firecrawl into structured, sourced research output.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows --skill firecrawl-market-researchWhat is this skill?
- Covers market size, earnings, public company financials, and industry trend sources
- Uses Firecrawl search, scrape, and browser for IR pages, SEC filings, and chart-heavy portals
- Parallel workstreams: financials, market metrics, trends, news, and source validation
- Short onboarding with at most 1–3 questions when timeframe or geography is unclear
- Requires FIRECRAWL_API_KEY for hosted collection
- At most 1–3 onboarding questions when blocked
- Up to five parallel research tracks: financials, market metrics, trends, news, source validation
Adoption & trust: 11.6k installs on skills.sh; 29 GitHub stars; 2/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You need credible market and company data with real URLs, not a single chat paragraph with no filings or IR links.
Who is it for?
Founders comparing niches, sizing markets, or briefing themselves on public companies before build or pitch work.
Skip if: Licensed terminal-only Bloomberg workflows or guaranteed non-public insider data—this skill works from accessible web sources.
When should I use this skill?
When the user asks for market research, industry trends, public company data, financial comparisons, earnings research, or structured market reports.
What do I get? / Deliverables
You get a structured market report with parallel-sourced metrics, news, and validated references suitable for scope and positioning decisions.
- Structured market research report with cited sources
- Collected metrics and news suitable for scope or pitch docs
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Spans multiple journey phases - primary shelf plus alternate fits below.
Market and company research is the first commitment gate before build and pricing decisions. Research subphase is where external metrics, filings, and trend sources get synthesized—not prototype code.
Where it fits
Compare three adjacent markets using industry reports and recent news pulled in parallel.
Scrape competitor IR pages and positioning pages for feature and revenue narrative.
Ground pricing hypotheses with peer company metrics and segment size estimates.
How it compares
A Firecrawl research workflow with browser for financial UIs, not a static Notion market-research template.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is firecrawl-market-research for?
Solo builders and small teams who need agent-assisted, source-linked market and financial research without a dedicated analyst.
When should I use firecrawl-market-research?
In Idea for segment and competitor landscape; in Validate when grounding pricing and scope; before Launch when drafting positioning from recent earnings or industry news.
Is firecrawl-market-research safe to install?
It calls Firecrawl with your API key and fetches third-party sites; confirm policy via the Security Audits panel on this page and respect source terms.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Firecrawl Market Research
# Firecrawl Market Research Use this for sourced market and financial research. ## Onboarding Interview Infer the market/company, data focus, timeframe, and output format from context. If the research target is clear, proceed immediately. Ask at most 1-3 concise questions only if blocked, such as the market/company, required data focus, or timeframe/geography. ## Firecrawl Collection Plan Use Firecrawl search and scrape for market reports, news, investor relations, SEC filings, and company pages. Use browser where charts, tabs, period selectors, or financial portals require interaction. Common sources include company investor relations pages, SEC filings, financial portals, earnings releases, industry reports, and news. ## Parallel Work If appropriate, use sub-agents or equivalent parallel task runners: - company financials - market metrics - industry trends - recent news and analyst commentary - source validation ## Final Deliverable ```markdown # Market Research: [Market] ## Market Overview [Industry description, size, growth, key players] ## Company Profiles [Financial summary, market metrics, recent developments] ## Comparison Tables [Revenue, margins, valuation multiples, growth] ## Trends And Outlook [Industry trends, forecasts, risks] ## Sources [URLs and data extracted] ## Rerun Inputs workflow: firecrawl-market-research query: [market/company] companies: [list] data_points: [all/financial/metrics/trends] output: [json/markdown] ``` ## Quality Bar - Cross-reference key numbers when possible. - Note conflicting data across sources. - Include period and unit for every metric. - Do not provide financial advice.