# Opportunity Brief Writing > Writes the results of an opportunity assessment into a concise 1-2 page Opportunity Brief report, understandable to both the technical inventor and the decision-maker. - Skill: `pilot2service/opportunity-brief-writing` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add pilot2service/opportunity-brief-writing` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/pilot2service/opportunity-brief-writing/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Docs & Writing - Author: Pilot2Service (https://skillmd.com/u/pilot2service) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/pilot2service/opportunity-brief-writing --- # Opportunity Brief Writing ## Purpose Writes the assessment produced by the `opportunity-value-assessment` skill into a concise, 1–2 page Opportunity Brief report (or an equivalent online report) that is understandable to both the technical inventor and the reader making the business decision — without requiring familiarity with the underlying theory. ## Based on The owner's own service — the report template of the Opportunity Value Assessment product (own product, see `../../references/opportunity-brief-template.md` for the full template with example content). ## Method 1. **Opportunity Snapshot.** A one-paragraph summary of the opportunity and its potential, in business language — what's being assessed and which angles the report covers. 2. **Evaluation Matrix.** Present the 2D placement (attractiveness × readiness) produced by `opportunity-value-assessment` visually, and add a narrative interpretation: what does the placement actually mean for this specific opportunity? 3. **Strengths & Gaps.** The top 3 strengthening and top 3 weakening factors, with concrete justification (no generic phrases — use numbers or named observations where possible). 4. **Market Pathways.** 1–3 potential markets/applications, each with: size (TAM), growth, life-cycle stage, entry route, and rationale for why this market fits. 5. **Business Snapshot** as five questions in plain business language: (1) what's the problem, (2) who has it, (3) what's the current solution, (4) what's our innovation, (5) how could this become a business. 6. **Evaluation Lenses table.** The seven angles (the 1–5 scores plus 🟢/🟡/🔴 color produced by `opportunity-value-assessment`) and a short justification for each. 7. **Critical Implementation Issues.** What needs to be solved before the opportunity can reach its full value. 8. **License vs. Startup view.** A short recommendation with rationale (see the preliminary direction from `opportunity-value-assessment`); can be presented as a small comparison table. 9. **Recommended Next Steps (3–6 months).** A prioritized, concrete action list derived directly from the critical factors — not generic recommendations but actionable steps (e.g. "interview 3–5 potential customers about X," "launch a pilot with partner Y"). 10. **Always include:** a disclaimer (everything is hypothesis- and assumption-based analysis, not a final truth or investment case), a note that the report is not an official invention disclosure and doesn't replace the IP procedures required by the organization's innovation policy, and a confidentiality notice. ## Gotchas - Step 2 (Evaluation Matrix) asks for a *narrative interpretation* of the placement, not just a redrawn 2x2 grid — restating "attractiveness: high, readiness: medium" without explaining what that combination means for this specific opportunity is the most common way this step turns into a wasted diagram. - Step 3 explicitly bans generic phrases for Strengths & Gaps — if the underlying `opportunity-value-assessment` didn't attach numbers or named observations to a factor, don't paraphrase it into a stronger-sounding claim; keep the same level of specificity the source assessment actually had. - The License vs. Startup view (Step 8) is only ever a *preliminary direction* inherited from `opportunity-value-assessment` — presenting it in the brief as a settled recommendation, rather than flagging it as directional, misleads the decision-maker into thinking a real make/license decision has already been made. - Step 10's disclaimer, "not an invention disclosure" note, and confidentiality notice are not optional boilerplate — because this skill explicitly does not replace an organization's IP procedures, dropping any one of the three when a report gets trimmed to fit "1 page" reintroduces the exact risk the skill exists to avoid. - This skill cannot be run standalone: without a completed `opportunity-value-assessment` (2D placement + 7-lens scores) as input, filling in the Evaluation Matrix or Evaluation Lenses table from general impressions instead of that skill's actual output produces a brief that looks authoritative but isn't grounded in the assessment it claims to summarize. ## What this skill does NOT do - Isn't an official invention disclosure and doesn't replace the IP procedures required by a university's/organization's innovation policy — always mention this in the report (see the note text in the template, `../../references/opportunity-brief-template.md`). - Doesn't present scoring, market data, or TRL assessment as final truth — everything is based on information supplied by the client, supplemented by desk research and analyst interpretation; flag this clearly. - Doesn't write the report without a preceding `opportunity-value-assessment` evaluation — it needs the matrix placement and 7-lens scoring it produces as input, and doesn't generate them itself from scratch. ## Continue from here - Start of the full chain: `../opportunity-intake-elicitation/SKILL.md` → `../opportunity-value-assessment/SKILL.md` → this skill - Related skill in another pack (when the opportunity needs a full business justification): `../../../business-case-and-analysis/skills/business-case-builder/SKILL.md` - This pack's shared guardrails: `../../CLAUDE.md` ## References - `../../references/opportunity-brief-template.md` — the full report template with example content - `../../CLAUDE.md` — this pack's shared guardrails