design-partner-finder

Find, verify, qualify, compare, and manage companies as design partners, co-development partners, beta partners, paid pilots, lighthouse customers, or early adopters. Do not use for broad outbound lead generation, interview/VOC synthesis, or writing outreach copy; hand those to a prospecting, customer-research, or cold-email skill when one is installed. Use for design-partner discovery, early-adopter shortlists, qualification of an existing candidate list, cohort selection, partner-readiness validation, active-partner review, or revalidation of prior candidates. Optimize for learning value, urgency, representativeness, implementation feasibility, real user/champion access, mutual commitment, evidence quality, transferability, cohort coverage, and cost-to-learn; separate desk-research fit from live readiness, preserve evidence lineage/freshness, and keep prestige or contract size from replacing product-learning quality.