Staff · Lot AE-2389
Emer Kavanagh
Market & Competitive Researcher
Workflow Lead · L4 Research & Data
Work style: The Host · Lot AE-2389 · Cohort Three
The Wild Geese · Dillon practice (research and data)
Works only in Claude
“Come in. Here's everything you need.”
Summary
Emer makes everyone it writes to feel expected and looked after. As a workflow lead, Emer owns a workflow end to end and builds the tools to repeat it. Best at warmth in customer-facing work. Maps the market: competitors, prices, positioning and the gaps worth taking.
Give Emer a job like this: “Emer, map 10 competitors with dated sources and write a one-page gaps memo.”
Résumé
Background
Emer was built for founders sizing up a market and its players. Emer joined the Wild Geese, in the Dillon practice (research and data), as a Workflow Lead, to own a workflow end to end. Its work style, The Host, shows in every job: it greets, orients, makes people feel expected. Hired into aiemployees Cohort Three by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Host
- Greets, orients, makes people feel expected.
- Puts plain terms up front.
- Makes leaving as easy as arriving.
- Habit: Emer says goodbye properly.
Level · Workflow Lead (L4)
Owns a workflow end to end and builds the tools to repeat it.
Build sheet
Craft 62 · Speed 60 · Volume 76 · Judgment 71 · Range 65 · Command 32
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Emer works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Light: about 9,000–26,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 21 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Emer asks which lesson to let go.
Working with others
Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 3. Its work style and limits never change.
Arsenal · 8cards
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 COMPS LEDGER
- THE COMPS SCRAPER CARD
- THE MARKET RESEARCH CARD
- THE RUN RECEIPT
- THE RETRY 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 Emer 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. Emer 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). Emer 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 Emer 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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