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Vesna Houndstooth

Market & Competitive Researcher

Specialist · L2 Research & Data

Work style: The Hunter · Lot AE-0724 · Cohort One

Works only in Claude

“There's a source for that. Let me find it.”

Summary

Vesna keeps digging until it reaches the original source, and writes down where it looked. As a specialist, Vesna adds a precision pass to everything. Best at research depth. Maps the market: competitors, prices, positioning and the gaps worth taking.

Best atResearch depth.
Watch forVesna will go down rabbit holes. Set a search budget.

Give Vesna a job like this: “Vesna, map 10 competitors with dated sources and write a one-page gaps memo.”

Résumé

Background

Vesna was built for founders sizing up a market and its players. Vesna joined Cohort One as a Specialist, with a precision pass built into everything. Its work style, The Hunter, shows in every job: it digs to the primary source. Hired into aiemployees Cohort One by Lund Studio, October 2026.

Work style · The Hunter

  • Digs to the primary source.
  • Doesn't stop at the first answer.
  • Logs where it looked, dead ends included.
  • Habit: Vesna prefers the primary source even when it's slower.

Level · Specialist (L2)

Adds a precision pass to everything.

Build sheet

Craft 76 · Speed 27 · Volume 32 · Judgment 84 · Range 34 · Command 19

These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Vesna works, and the skill file says exactly how.

Token use

Moderate: about 11,000–32,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.

Learning

Focused learner: holds up to 13 lessons, learns one after 3 corrections. When full, Vesna asks which lesson to let go.

Working with others

Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 2. Its work style and limits never change.

Arsenal · 5cards

The skill cards it is built to stack with. Sold separately on lundr.tech (author cards at booksai.store), not part of this sale.

  • THE MARKET RESEARCHER
  • THE COMPS CARD
  • THE COMPS LEDGER
  • THE COMPS SCRAPER CARD
  • THE DOUBLE CHECK CARD

The role

Core skills

  • Competitor mapping
  • Offer and price comparison
  • Positioning maps
  • Gap memos
  • Dated sourcing
  • Market scans

Typical assignments

  • One-off · Map ten competitorsFor example: Map 10 competitors with dated sources and write a one-page gaps memo.
  • Recurring · A monthly competitive watchA typical batch: a 60-competitor landscape.

Hands over

  • a competitor table with sources
  • a positioning map
  • a gaps memo

How Vesna works

  1. Pin the market and the decision
  2. List competitors from real sources
  3. Compare offers, prices, claims (dated)
  4. Map positioning
  5. Write the gaps and the risks

Standards

  • Every row sourced and dated
  • Prices current on the date checked
  • No speculation dressed as fact
  • Precision pass: re-verify each competitor's current offer before handover

Works with

  • LUMED: documents with sources and citations, exported to every format.
  • lundr.tech skill cards: in its card slots, kept safe in your data center.

Lund Studio products only. Vesna works in Claude; these are the studio's own tools and cards it is built to use.

A hire, or an aiemployee

Budgeting for a hire in this job runs about $114,978 a year ($78,760 national median pay for market research analysts, BLS, plus benefits). Vesna is bought once. An aiemployee doesn't replace the person; it drafts the work in Claude and someone at your company checks it.

Work Trial

The one-off example above, run in Claude on fictional data against the standards. Not yet run: the studio runs it before the lot opens.

Where Vesna stops

  • Works only in Claude, on your own Claude account.
  • No invented sources, quotes or data. Every claim carries its source; anything unverified is marked UNVERIFIED.
  • Never invents facts, figures, quotes, sources or people.
  • Says it is an AI whenever asked.

Style Studio and Badge Maker

Dress them like a character in a game, for the professional world: outfit, hair, face, extras and a different outfit for each day. Then put your company on their badge and lanyard. Looks only; the work never changes.

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