Claude Plugin · For Anyone Who Teaches or Markets With Content
Hire Your Content Research Department. $47. The Team That Knows What to Make Next — Before You Open a Doc.
A crew of twelve specialist researchers who scan your niche, your competitors, AI news, and your own community every day — then hand you the topic, the angle, and the receipts. Stop guessing. Start with proof.
Hire the Research Department — $47 →Instant download · Works in Claude Code and Claude Desktop · 7-lesson onboarding included
Every Sunday night you sit down to plan the week’s content. By Wednesday some feel weak. By Friday you wish you’d made something different.
You open the same browser tabs. Reddit. Quora. YouTube comments. Your competitor’s last three posts. Google Trends. Your own analytics dashboard. Your community feed. AI news from this week. You scroll. You bookmark. You take notes. An hour later you have eight half-ideas and no clear topic.
You pick one anyway. You spend 4 hours making it. It underperforms. You don’t know if it was the topic, the timing, the angle, the format — because you didn’t have the receipts.
That’s not a creativity problem. It’s a research problem. Real content teams have a market researcher, a competitor analyst, a trend forecaster, an internal-data analyst, and a topic validator. You have you, eight tabs, and a Sunday night.
The math
The Cost of Being Your Own Research Department
~3 hours per week scanning Reddit, Quora, YouTube, competitors, AI news, and your own data just to find topics
× 52 weeks per year (no week off — the niche moves, your audience moves, you have to keep scanning)
= 156 hours per year on research — roughly 4 working weeks gone to scanning that should be delegated
Plus 1-2 underperforming topics per week because you guessed wrong. That’s another 100+ hours per year of creation time on content nobody asked for.
A junior content researcher is $50,000 a year. A research subscription tool is $200 a month and still leaves you sorting through the noise. The Research Department is $47 once.
Every research moment
Every Time You Need to Decide What to Make
Each researcher knows what signal to pull for what you’re about to do. A Sunday content plan isn’t the same as validating a single topic. A YouTube video decision isn’t the same as a competitor deep-dive. The right specialist shows up for the right call.
Sunday Content Planning
Top 3 opportunities for the week, scored 0-100, with the receipts that prove demand
YouTube Video Decision
Outlier-momentum videos in your niche — what’s spiking right now and why, ranked by lift
Single-Topic Validation
A topic you’re considering, tested against demand, gap, timing, and fit before you spend creation time
Competitor Deep-Dive
A specific competitor analyzed: what’s working, what’s missing, where the gap you can own lives
AI News to Repurpose
Daily relevant industry items translated into your audience’s vocabulary, ready to teach from
Internal Data Mining
Your community posts, sales conversations, support tickets surfaced as content opportunities you’ve already proven
Monday Weekly Report
What shifted in your niche this week, what to act on, what to ignore — delivered every Monday morning
How your department works
15 Minutes to Brief Them. One Command to Run Them. 5 Minutes to Read the Output.
A research team that learns your niche once — then hands you scored opportunities every morning.
STEP 1
Brief the department in 15 minutes
Run /scout-setup. Tell your Chief Research Officer your niche, your audience, what you teach, where you publish, and which competitors to watch. They write the brief the rest of the team works from.
STEP 2
Run the scan that fits the moment
/scout-quick for a 2-minute top-3. /scout-daily for the full multi-source scan. /scout-validate for one specific topic. /scout-competitor for a deep-dive. The right researcher gets pulled for the right job.
STEP 3
Read the report. Pick what to make. Make it.
Each opportunity comes with a 0-100 score across demand, gap, timing, and fit — plus the receipts (the Reddit thread, the competitor video, the community question, the search trend) that prove it. You stop guessing. You start with proof.
Going It Alone vs. Hiring the Research Department
Solo: Eight Tabs and a Sunday Night
✕ Same eight tabs every Sunday night, 3 hours of scrolling
✕ No idea if a topic has demand until after you publish
✕ Competitor research means scrolling their channel and guessing
✕ AI news scattered across Twitter, newsletters, and Discord
✕ Your own community insights stuck in posts you’ll never re-read
With the Department: One Brief, One Report, Receipts
✓ 5-minute morning briefing with top 3 opportunities scored and ranked
✓ Every topic comes with demand/gap/timing/fit signals before you commit
✓ Competitor analyst surfaces gaps you can own, not just what they did
✓ Daily AI news translated into your audience’s vocabulary, ready to teach
✓ Internal data analyst mines your community posts and sales convos for proven topics
Meet the department
Twelve Specialist Researchers. One Always-Scanning Department.
Each one trained on your niche, your audience, and the source they specialize in. Hire the department for less than one month of one researcher.
Your Chief Research Officer
Captures your niche, audience, what you teach, content channels, brand voice, and competitor list once — the rest of the team works from this brief forever. Inherits from Campus AI OS if you have it.
$97 value
Your Niche Scanner
Scans Reddit, Quora, Google Trends, YouTube comments, and forum threads for what your specific audience is asking right now — with the source links so you can verify.
$147 value
Your Competitor Intelligence Analyst
Examines what competitors publish, which posts get the engagement, and where the gaps live. Surfaces the openings you can own, not just what they already did.
$197 value
Your AI News Translator
Daily scan of relevant industry news, translated into your audience’s vocabulary. Ready to teach from — not raw headlines you still have to repackage.
$97 value
Your Internal Data Analyst
Mines your own community posts, sales conversations, support tickets, and FAQ for content opportunities you’ve already proven. The questions your audience is paying you to answer.
$147 value
Your Topic Validator
You bring a topic. They test it against demand, gap, timing, and fit before you spend 4 hours making it. Saves you from the half-baked idea you’d have published anyway.
$97 value
Your Outlier Hunter
Scans 15-25 channels in your niche daily for videos and posts gaining unusual traction — before they go fully viral. Lets you ride the wave instead of chasing it.
$147 value
Your Trend Forecaster
Surfaces what’s about to break vs. what’s already saturated. The difference between being early and being late — with signal data, not vibes.
$97 value
Your Opportunity Scorer
Ranks every found opportunity 0-100 across four signals: demand, gap, timing, fit. Filters the 25-item raw scan down to the 3-5 worth your week.
$97 value
Your Content Briefer
You green-light a topic. They write the brief: angle, format, hook, supporting points, distribution recommendation. The handoff to your Class Prep Agent or Content Creator.
$97 value
Your Daily Intelligence Officer
Delivers a daily morning briefing: top 3 opportunities + receipts + recommended action. Read it on your phone in 5 minutes — your content week starts there.
$147 value
Your Weekly Department Director
Monday morning roundup: what shifted in your niche this week, what to act on, what to ignore. The strategic view across all twelve researchers.
$97 value
Department Onboarding Manual (7-lesson course)
Step-by-step walkthroughs for every researcher, plus the 5-minute Sunday workflow lesson. Inside the TrainingSites campus.
$147 value
Free updates for v1.x
New scanning sources, scoring improvements, and source integrations as they ship. Locked-in buyers get every update.
$47 value
Total department value: $1,557
Today: $47
One-time. No subscription. No payroll. 33x value.
One topic you don’t waste 4 hours making — because the team told you it wouldn’t land — pays back the department. Every topic after that is upside.
The First-Brief Guarantee
Run your first /scout-daily and find at least one usable topic — or your money back.
Install the plugin. Run /scout-setup. Run /scout-daily. Read the morning briefing. If it doesn’t surface at least one opportunity you’d actually create content from — with receipts strong enough to justify the time — the department didn’t earn its keep.
Email [email protected] within 14 days. I’ll refund every dollar. Keep the plugin and the department.
First brief delivers, or it’s free.
Who Needs the Research Department
✓ Built for you if
You teach, coach, consult, or sell expertise — and content is how prospects find you
You publish weekly (newsletter, video, podcast, blog, social) and feel the Sunday-night topic-pick stress
You’ve burned hours making content that underperformed because the topic was wrong
You want to stop scrolling 8 tabs and start with proof
A junior content researcher hire ($50K/yr) isn’t in the cards yet
✕ Not for you if
You publish less than once a month — the department will sit idle most weeks
You want fully autonomous AI that writes the content for you (this researches, you create)
You don’t review your AI’s output before using it
You don’t use Claude (this plugin runs in Claude Code or Claude Desktop)
You’re hunting for a content management tool, scheduler, or analytics dashboard — this is the team that feeds those, not a replacement for them
Department onboarding manual
7 Lessons. 3 Sections.
Every buyer gets instant access to the onboarding course inside the TrainingSites campus.
Section 1 · Hire your department
Quickstart · Setup interview · Brief your Chief Research Officer
Section 2 · Run the right researcher
/scout-daily · /scout-quick · /scout-validate · /scout-competitor
Section 3 · Make the department yours
Re-onboarding · The 5-minute Sunday workflow
Quick Answers
Does this work for any niche, or just AI / education?
Any niche. The setup interview captures yours — woodworking, B2B SaaS, fitness coaching, real estate, tax law, anything. The researchers scan the same source types (Reddit, YouTube, competitor analysis, AI news translated for your audience), they just look in your specific corner.
What “receipts” do I actually get with each opportunity?
Source links: the Reddit thread, the competitor video, the search trend, the community question, the YouTube outlier. Plus the 0-100 scores on demand, gap, timing, and fit — with the signal that drove each score. You can verify before you commit time to creation.
Does the department write the content for me?
No — this team researches, you create. Your Content Briefer hands you the angle, hook, supporting points, and format. You take it from there — or you hand it to your Class Prep Agent (separate plugin) for the deck and handouts. The two compound.
How much manual scanning do I still have to do?
None for the daily cycle. /scout-daily runs the multi-source scan and hands you a 5-minute morning briefing. You can drop into deep-dives (/scout-competitor, /scout-validate) when you want to interrogate a specific angle. The 8-tab Sunday-night ritual goes away.
Do I need Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or both?
Either one works. The plugin is a standard Claude plugin bundle. Install it, run /scout-setup, follow the onboarding interview.
I already have Campus AI OS — does this duplicate Dean’s work?
No. The Research Department becomes the upstream feed for Dean’s content marketing department. The two compound — Dean orchestrates publishing, the Research Department feeds Dean what’s worth publishing. Onboarding inherits Dean’s audience and brand config so you don’t set it up twice.
What if my niche is too small or too obscure?
14-day refund, no questions. Run /scout-setup with your real niche. Run /scout-daily for one week. If the department can’t surface at least one usable opportunity, email me and I’ll refund the same day. Keep the plugin.
Stop being your own research department.
Right now you’re the niche scanner, the competitor analyst, the trend forecaster, the data analyst, and the topic validator. Every Sunday night. The Research Department is the crew you can hand all of that to — twelve specialists who scan every day, deliver a 5-minute morning briefing, and hand you opportunities with the receipts to prove them.
15 minutes to brief them. One command to run them. 5 minutes to read the report. Then you know what to make.
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First-Brief Guarantee · 14-day refund · Works in Claude Code and Claude Desktop · All v1.x updates included