Recoup Research

Music industry research through the recoup research CLI. All commands use RECOUP_API_KEY for auth. In sandboxes, this is already configured.

Before You Research

1. Check if the artist has a workspace with context/artist.md — don't re-research what's already known.
2. Decide what the user actually needs. "How's Drake doing?" needs 2-3 commands, not 20.
3. Always use --json when you'll process the output programmatically.

Decision Tree

Start here based on what the user asks:

"How is [artist] doing?" → metrics --source spotify + cities + insights

"Research [artist] for me" → Full chain: profile → parallel(metrics, audience, cities, similar, playlists) → web for narrative context → synthesize

"Who should I pitch to?" → similar --audience high --genre high → playlists on each peer → find playlists that have peers but not your artist