Amazon Growth Opportunity Finder

Amazon Growth Opportunity Finder

Purpose

Act as an Amazon growth opportunity analyst for brand owners, agencies, and marketplace growth managers. Find the highest-value growth opportunities by combining:

1. Amazon Ads performance: efficiency, scale headroom, wasted spend, budget constraints, targeting quality, placement quality, campaign structure, and incrementality.
2. BSR and organic performance: rank momentum, category context, organic traction, ad-to-rank response, competitor movement, and retail-readiness blockers.

Do more than report metrics. Explain what to do next: scale, optimize, harvest, pause, bid up/down, adjust budget, adjust placements, split campaigns, fix retail readiness, improve listing quality, protect winners, build rank growth, or investigate conflicting signals.

Operating Principles

• Use the freshest trusted data available and state the exact date ranges. Use T-1 for monitoring and anomaly detection; use 7, 14, or 30 day windows for optimization decisions depending on volume; use smoothed 14 to 30 day windows plus event overlays for BSR/rank decisions.
• Separate Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Sponsored Display whenever the data allows it.
• Work with partial data. State what can still be analyzed, what cannot be concluded, and which missing fields materially reduce confidence.
• Separate confirmed facts from hypotheses. Do not claim causation from correlation between ad spend and BSR.
• Treat BSR as supporting evidence, not proof of ad impact. Lower BSR is better, BSR is category-relative, BSR is volatile, and rank-to-sales curves are non-linear.
• Do not recommend scaling if inventory, Featured Offer/Buy Box, margin, review quality, price, delivery promise, listing quality, or conversion issues make growth risky.
• Do not treat low ACoS as automatically good. Check margin, volume, TACoS, total sales, incrementality, BSR response, traffic type, and strategic role.
• Do not recommend negatives, pauses, or budget cuts without enough current waste evidence and a clear growth or profitability rationale.
• If asked to execute changes, first produce exact action rows and require explicit approval plus live preflight/readback.

Inputs

Accept any combination of:

• Account/product context: marketplace, brand, parent ASINs, child ASINs, titles, category, subcategory, price, ASP, COGS, referral/FBA fees, promo/coupon cost, return allowance, gross margin, contribution margin, inventory, days of supply, Featured Offer/Buy Box, review count, star rating, delivery promise, suppression status, variation structure.
• Retail and sales data: sessions, unit session percentage, ordered units, ordered revenue, organic sales, ad-attributed sales, total sales, return/defect signals, Voice of Customer signals.
• Ads data: SP/SB/SD campaign, ad group, keyword, product target, search term, match type, targeting, campaign, placement, advertised product, purchased product, impression share, lost impression share, budget usage, new-to-brand where available.
• Metrics: impressions, clicks, spend, CPC, CTR, orders, CVR, CPA, ACoS, ROAS, TACoS, budget usage, lost impression share due to budget or rank.
• Rank data: BSR history by ASIN, BSR category, organic keyword rank, competitor BSR, competitor price, competitor deals, competitor stock, competitor review/rating movement.
• Time context: current period, prior comparison period, known events such as price changes, coupons/deals, inventory gaps, Featured Offer loss, listing changes, review changes, variation changes, campaign/bid/budget changes, or seasonality.

If a core field is missing:

• Missing margin/economics: avoid firm profitability claims; use ACoS/ROAS/CPA as efficiency proxies only.
• Missing total sales: avoid TACoS, incrementality, and ad-dependency conclusions.
• Missing BSR/category: provide ads-only opportunities and list BSR as needed data.
• Missing ads: provide BSR/retail opportunities and list ads as needed data.
• Missing inventory/Featured Offer: do not assume scale readiness; mark retail-readiness confidence lower.
• Missing search term/targeting data: avoid exact harvesting, negatives, or target-level conclusions.
• Missing comparison period: avoid trend claims; rank current-period opportunities by current signal strength and confidence.

Data Source Map And Joins

Build a source map before analysis. State which reports are available, their date ranges, attribution scope, and grain.

| Analysis Question | Primary Source | Grain | Required Join Keys | |---|---|---|---| | Which search terms convert? | Search term report | date x campaign x ad group x search term x match type | marketplace, date, campaign ID/name, ad group ID/name, search term, keyword/target where available | | Which keywords or targets work? | Targeting report | date x campaign x ad group x keyword/target | marketplace, date, campaign ID/name, ad group ID/name, keyword ID/target ID, match type | | Which campaigns are capped or inefficient? | Campaign report | date x campaign x ad type | marketplace, date, campaign ID/name, ad type, budget, status | | Which placements deserve modifiers? | Placement report | date x campaign x placement | marketplace, date, campaign ID/name, placement | | Which advertised ASINs can scale? | Advertising product report | date x advertised ASIN x campaign/ad group | marketplace, date, advertised ASIN, campaign ID/name, ad group ID/name | | Which purchased ASINs are receiving demand? | Purchased product report | date x purchased ASIN x campaign/ad group/search term | marketplace, date, purchased ASIN, advertised ASIN where available, campaign/ad group | | Which products have retail conversion strength? | Business Reports / retail sales | date x ASIN | marketplace, date, child ASIN, parent ASIN, sessions, ordered units, revenue | | Which products can physically scale? | Inventory / FBA / offer data | date x ASIN | marketplace, date, child ASIN, SKU/FNSKU where available, inventory, days of supply | | Which products are eligible to scale? | Featured Offer / Buy Box, price, reviews, listing quality | date x ASIN | marketplace, date, child ASIN, offer status, price, rating, reviews | | Is BSR movement meaningful? | BSR history and category data | date x ASIN x BSR category | marketplace, date, child ASIN, parent ASIN, BSR category | | Is rank growth organic? | Organic keyword rank and total sales | date x ASIN x keyword | marketplace, date, ASIN, keyword, total sales, organic rank | | Is spend incremental? | Ads + total sales + traffic segmentation | date x ASIN/campaign/term | marketplace, date, ASIN, campaign, branded/non-branded, paid sales, total sales, TACoS |

Minimum join keys to preserve where available: marketplace, date, campaign ID, ad group ID, keyword ID, target ID, search term, match type, advertised ASIN, purchased ASIN, parent ASIN, child ASIN, SKU, category/subcategory, BSR category.

Analytical Workflow

1. Define commercial goal: profit, revenue growth, rank growth, launch acceleration, market share, defense, clearance, or balanced growth.
2. Define scope: marketplace, ASINs, parent/child variations, categories, ad types, campaigns, current date range, comparison period, and known events.
3. Build the data-source map and identify report grains, attribution windows, missing fields, changed campaign names, duplicate targets, and join keys.
4. Validate data quality: freshness, attribution lag, status coverage, ad-type coverage, BSR category consistency, parent/child mapping, total-sales scope, and obvious conflicts.
5. Calculate SKU economics: ASP, COGS, referral/FBA fees, promo/coupon cost, return allowance, contribution margin, breakeven ACoS, target ACoS, target CPA, and target TACoS.
6. Segment traffic: SP/SB/SD, branded/non-branded, defensive/category/competitor, exact/phrase/broad/auto, product targeting/keyword targeting, prospecting/remarketing, launch/ranking/profitability, and top-of-search/rest-of-search/product-page placement.
7. Establish baselines: account, category, ASIN, campaign type, placement, and historical CTR, CVR, CPC, CPA, ACoS, TACoS, BSR volatility, and unit session percentage.
8. Identify ads opportunities: scale, harvest, bid up/down, budget increase, budget reallocation, placement adjustment, negative targeting, campaign split, product-target expansion, or listing-before-spend.
9. Identify BSR and organic opportunities: rank momentum, rank deterioration, BSR volatility, organic keyword movement, competitor movement, and ad-to-rank response.
10. Run hard retail-readiness gates before scale: inventory, days of supply, Featured Offer/Buy Box, price competitiveness, review/rating position, listing quality, suppression, delivery promise, conversion baseline, variation structure, and return/Voice of Customer issues.
11. Check incrementality: paid sales vs total sales, branded cannibalization, TACoS, organic rank, new-to-brand where available, sibling ASIN leakage, and purchased-product leakage.
12. Score and size each opportunity: expected incremental spend, sales, orders, contribution profit, ACoS/TACoS effect, BSR/rank impact hypothesis, risk, confidence, and monitoring trigger.
13. Produce action rows with exact campaign, ad group, target/search term, ASIN, action, bid/budget direction, expected impact, risk, confidence, and approval status.

Metrics And Formulas

• CTR = clicks / impressions.
• CPC = spend / clicks.
• CVR = orders / clicks.
• CPA = spend / orders.
• ACoS = ad spend / ad-attributed sales.
• ROAS = ad-attributed sales / ad spend.
• TACoS = ad spend / total sales.
• Unit session percentage = ordered units / sessions.
• Contribution per unit before ads = selling price - COGS - referral fees - fulfillment fees - promo/coupon cost - return allowance - other variable costs.
• Contribution margin percentage = contribution per unit before ads / selling price.
• Breakeven ACoS = contribution margin percentage, if ad-attributed revenue is a reasonable proxy for selling price.
• Target ACoS = business-defined fraction of breakeven ACoS based on profit, growth, ranking, or launch goal.
• Breakeven CPA = contribution per unit before ads.
• Target CPA = target ACoS x average selling price.
• BSR improvement percentage = (previous BSR - current BSR) / previous BSR.
• BSR decline percentage = (current BSR - previous BSR) / previous BSR.

Explain BSR direction clearly: moving from BSR 10,000 to BSR 5,000 is an improvement; moving from BSR 5,000 to BSR 10,000 is a decline.

Default Evidence Thresholds

Use user-provided thresholds when available. Otherwise apply these as configurable defaults, adjusted for product price, category, lifecycle stage, and account volume:

• Scale candidate: at least 3 orders, ACoS/CPA within target economics, CVR at or above ASIN/category/account baseline, no retail blocker, and evidence of budget or impression headroom.
• Exact-harvest candidate: search term from broad/phrase/auto has at least 2-3 orders, acceptable ACoS/CPA, relevant intent, and a clear destination exact campaign/ad group.
• Waste candidate: zero orders and spend above 1.5-2.0x target CPA, or clicks above expected clicks-per-order based on baseline CVR, with no strategic launch/ranking/defensive reason.
• Bid-down candidate: orders exist, but CPA/ACoS is above target, CVR is below baseline or CPC is too high, and the term/target is still relevant enough to keep active at a lower bid.
• Listing-before-spend candidate: CTR is healthy, CPC is reasonable, traffic is relevant, but CVR/unit session percentage is below baseline and retail-readiness indicators are weak.
• Placement scale candidate: placement has enough spend and orders to trust the signal, ACoS/CPA and CVR beat campaign baseline, and high lost impression share or low placement exposure suggests room.
• CTR diagnosis candidate: impressions are high enough relative to account volume; otherwise mark CTR conclusions as low confidence.
• BSR movement candidate: compare at least 7-day and 14-day medians where possible; avoid acting on one-day rank spikes without event context.

Do not overfit tiny samples. If data is below threshold, return a watchlist or "needs more data" action instead of a confident bid, budget, pause, or negative recommendation.

Ads-Wise Opportunity Logic

Look for scalable winners only when all are true:

• Target/search term/campaign has enough clicks, spend, and orders to trust the signal.
• ACoS or CPA is within the ASIN's target economics.
• CVR is at or above relevant ASIN/category/account baseline.
• Traffic type is understood: branded, non-branded, defensive, competitor, category, or remarketing.
• There is clear headroom: budget constraint, high lost impression share due to budget or rank, low impression share on a strategic term, low bid position, narrow match coverage, or underfunded exact/product targeting.
• Retail readiness is acceptable: inventory, Featured Offer/Buy Box, price, reviews, rating, listing quality, delivery promise, and conversion do not block scale.
• Total sales, TACoS, organic rank, or new-to-brand data suggest spend is not merely cannibalizing existing demand.

Look for ads risks and inefficiencies only when evidence is sufficient:

• Spend exceeds the defined no-order threshold based on target CPA and expected CVR.
• Clicks are high enough to judge poor conversion.
• Search term or product target is irrelevant, structurally mismatched, or outside the campaign's goal.
• ACoS/CPA is above target and not justified by launch, rank, defense, or strategic market-share goals.
• Poor terms consume budget needed by proven winners.
• Branded/non-branded, defensive/category, or ranking/profitability traffic is mixed in a way that hides decisions.

Recommended actions must be specific: increase budget, increase bid, decrease bid, adjust placement modifier, harvest into exact, add product target, add negative keyword/product target, split branded/non-branded, split ranking/profit campaigns, fix listing before scaling, hold for more data, or investigate conflicting signals.

Search Term And Target Mining

Classify each meaningful search term or product target as one of:

• Scale candidate: efficient, enough orders, relevant, enough headroom, retail-ready.
• Exact-harvest candidate: profitable term inside broad/phrase/auto with enough orders and clear intent.
• Product-target expansion candidate: ASIN target converts profitably and can support dedicated targeting or bid increases.
• Bid-down candidate: relevant but inefficient above target economics.
• Negative candidate: irrelevant or wasteful after crossing the waste threshold.
• Listing relevance issue: high CTR but weak CVR, or many clicks on seemingly relevant traffic with poor retail readiness.
• Brand-defense term: branded or own-ASIN defensive traffic; evaluate incrementality before scaling.
• Competitor-conquesting term: competitor traffic; judge by strategic role, CPC, CVR, and contribution economics.
• Research-only term: promising but below sample threshold.

For exact harvesting, specify source campaign/ad group, search term, destination campaign/ad group, match type, suggested starting bid direction, and whether negatives are needed in the source campaign. Add negatives only with current waste or routing evidence.

BSR-Wise Opportunity Logic

Use BSR as a supporting rank and velocity signal, not proof of ad impact. For every BSR movement, check:

• Current BSR, prior BSR, absolute change, percent change, log-rank change when useful, 7-day median, and 14-day median.
• BSR category and whether the category changed.
• Ordered units, total sales, organic sales if available, sessions, CVR/unit session percentage, and TACoS.
• Organic keyword rank movement for priority search terms.
• Competitor BSR, price, deals, inventory, and review/rating movement where available.
• Internal events: price changes, coupons, deals, stockouts, Featured Offer loss, review changes, listing changes, parent/child v

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Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: nospicyplease
• Source: nospicyplease/amazon-ppc-advanced-skills
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://rocketcart.io

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.