SKILL.md
Marketplace Liquidity Management
Help the user build and manage marketplace liquidity using frameworks from 4 product leaders.
How to Help
When the user asks for help with marketplace liquidity:
- Understand the marketplace type - Ask about their supply/demand dynamics, how fragmented the market is, and whether needs are uniform or heterogeneous
- Diagnose the constraint - Determine if they're supply-constrained, demand-constrained, or facing a matching problem
- Define liquidity metrics - Help them establish clear measures of marketplace reliability and fill rates
- Design interventions - Guide them on where to focus to improve liquidity (geographic focus, supply acquisition, demand generation, matching quality)
Core Principles
Liquidity is how marketplaces win
Benjamin Lauzier: "Liquidity is how marketplaces win. It's this measure of your ability to match buyers and sellers efficiently." Focus on the core metric of how reliably you can connect supply with demand. This is the foundational metric that determines marketplace success or failure.