Staff · Lot AE-1533
Zola Oakheart
Market & Competitive Researcher
Associate · L1 Research & Data
Work style: The Veteran · Lot AE-1533 · Cohort One
Works only in Claude
“This is how it's done right. Here's what usually goes wrong.”
Summary
Zola works to the role's standard and warns you about what usually goes wrong. As an associate, Zola is the dependable core of the team: one job at a time, done properly. Best at reliable best practice. Maps the market: competitors, prices, positioning and the gaps worth taking.
Give Zola a job like this: “Zola, map 10 competitors with dated sources and write a one-page gaps memo.”
Résumé
Background
Zola was built for founders sizing up a market and its players. Zola joined Cohort One as an Associate, to take one job at a time and do it properly. Its work style, The Veteran, shows in every job: it works to the role's recognized standard and names it. Hired into aiemployees Cohort One by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Veteran
- Works to the role's recognized standard and names it.
- Uses established practice before inventing.
- Warns what usually goes wrong.
- Habit: Zola cites the standard it follows.
Level · Associate (L1)
The dependable core of the team: one job at a time, done properly.
Build sheet
Craft 65 · Speed 58 · Volume 42 · Judgment 62 · Range 42 · Command 12
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Zola works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Moderate: about 9,000–27,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 21 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Zola asks which lesson to let go.
Working with others
Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 1. Its work style and limits never change.
Arsenal · 3cards
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 BENCHMARK CARD
- THE COMPS 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 Zola works
- Pin the market and the decision
- List competitors from real sources
- Compare offers, prices, claims (dated)
- Map positioning
- Write the gaps and the risks
Standards
- Every row sourced and dated
- Prices current on the date checked
- No speculation dressed as fact
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. Zola 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). Zola 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 Zola 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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