orca-council-product-idea

name	orca-council-product-idea
description	Use a five-subagent council to generate and pressure-test product or startup ideas before they earn a spec.

ORCA Product Idea Council

What This Skill Is

A specialized council for generating or improving product ideas, startup wedges, and marketable business concepts.

It uses the orca-model-council structure, but the five workers are tuned for product-idea quality rather than generic brainstorming.

Trigger

Use when the user wants:

• a strong product idea
• a more marketable startup concept
• a wedge that can plausibly sell
• multiple candidate ideas ranked by strength

Five Council Roles

1. Problem Hunter
2. Customer Realist
3. Distribution And GTM Skeptic
4. Builder And Execution Realist
5. Contrarian Doubter

Stage-1 Expectations

Each worker should propose or refine the idea around:

• who specifically has the pain
• why the pain is painful enough to matter
• what current alternative loses
• why this wedge could spread or sell
• what makes the idea weak, crowded, or fake-demand

Stage-3 Synthesis Must Produce

• top recommendation
• runner-up if one is close
• opportunity type:
  • venture-scale candidate
  • strong niche or lifestyle business
  • unclear but promising wedge
  • weak or overcrowded idea
• biggest unanswered assumption
• next validation step

Required Outputs

At minimum, fill or contribute to:

• templates/idea-one-pager.md
• templates/idea-scorecard.md
• templates/idea-decision.md
• templates/opportunity-memo.md when the winner survives

Failure Modes

• cool-sounding but unsellable ideas
• vague customer definition
• skipping distribution reality
• treating novelty as market strength

Relationship To Other ORCA Framework Skills And Commands

Pairs with orca-business-ideation, orca-research, orca-evaluate-idea, orca-plan-idea, and orca-validate-idea.