
Find real market data using free tools without paying for expensive reports
Skim market reports by starting with executive summary, capture three numbers: total market size, growth rate, and trends, analyze segmentation and competitive landscape, and extract actionable insights in ten minutes.
Learn to identify direct, indirect, and substitute competitors and map three direct, three indirect, and two substitute competitors on a two-dimension positioning map for meal planning.
Identify three specific competitor weaknesses and opportunities by analyzing reviews, forums, and historical data. Document patterns, discontinued features, and customer journey gaps to exploit strategic openings.
Learn to size markets with TAM, SAM, and SOM using bottom-up validation and realistic assumptions, balancing top-down estimates with bottom-up reality for investor-ready market sizing.
Apply a top-down TAM approach by using industry reports, credible sources, and Google Scholar PDFs, verify date and method, triangulate, segment into corporate vs consumer, estimate 12.6 billion market.
Define your exact paying customer, estimate reachable market with realistic customer acquisition cost, apply trial and conversion rates, and forecast month-by-month revenue to reconcile bottom-up with top-down market size.
Assess market timing and readiness by identifying whether you're in the too early, sweet spot, or too late phase using signals like search behavior and competitor activity.
Most Product Management courses teach you frameworks. This one makes you use them.
In this free module, you'll work through the exact process product managers use to analyze a market — finding real data, mapping competitors, sizing opportunity, and turning it all into a dashboard you can show in interviews.
By the end, you'll have a complete Market Analysis Dashboard built on a real product idea. Not a template you filled in. An actual artifact that proves you can do the work.
What you'll build: A 6-tab Interactive Market Analysis Dashboard — competitor comparison matrix, TAM/SAM/SOM calculator, market trends visualization, and opportunity scoring.
What's covered:
Finding and reading real market data
Identifying trends vs. fads
Mapping direct and indirect competitors
Sizing your market (top-down and bottom-up)
Scoring opportunities like a PM
Who this is for:
Career changers who want to break into product management but have no PM experience on their CV. No prior knowledge needed — just a product idea you want to explore, a Google account, and the willingness to do the actual work.
Next steps:
Upload your completed dashboard at xperience school to get feedback from a senior Product Manager for free — and continue with the full 8-module product management track.