docs: add market intelligence report (communities, contracts, industries)

40 web searches across freelance platforms, MCP marketplaces, agent
frameworks, high-volume industries (IB, PE, consulting), and
integration partnerships. Includes deal sizes and action timeline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Whatsonyourmind

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+# DeckForge Market Intelligence Report — April 3, 2026
+
+## Immediate Revenue Channels
+
+### Freelance (Cash in 1-2 weeks)
+- **Fiverr**: Avg pitch deck gig = $111. Top 1% earn $2K+/mo. Create "API-Generated Investor Pitch Decks" gig at $150-500
+- **Upwork**: Pitch deck design $240-1,500/deck. Offer "AI Presentation API Integration" at $1K-3K/project
+- **Toptal**: Premium rates $60-150/hr for presentation design
+
+### MCP Marketplaces (Agents discover + pay autonomously)
+| Marketplace | Size | Action |
+|---|---|---|
+| MCP.so | 19,380 | SUBMITTED |
+| Glama | 20,756 | SUBMITTED |
+| Smithery | 6,000+ | CLI: `smithery mcp publish <url>` |
+| Cline Marketplace | Millions of users | GitHub issue + 400x400 PNG |
+| Composio | 11,000+ tools | Contact |
+| LobeHub | Active | Web submission |
+| MCPMarket.com | Curated | Web submission |
+| xpay | Monetized | Set per-tool pricing |
+| Fluora | Monetized | List at fluora.ai/marketplace |
+| MCP-Hive | Launching May 11 | Apply as founding provider |
+
+### Monetized MCP (x402)
+- 75M+ transactions settled on Base/Solana
+- xpay: 5% platform fee, USDC settlements
+- Fluora: agents discover and pay autonomously
+- MCP-Hive: pay-per-request gateway (launching May 11)
+
+## Communities With Active Demand
+
+### People asking for exactly what DeckForge does:
+1. **OpenAI Community**: "How to create PowerPoint with API?" — multiple unresolved threads
+2. **n8n Community**: "Can I create PowerPoint slides inside n8n?" — open feature request
+3. **DEV.to**: Posts on PPT automation trend regularly
+
+### Offshore Slide Factories (potential customers/partners)
+- EUR 14/hr (~$5/slide manual production)
+- mybusinessvisual.com, outsourcepowerpointpresentation.com, Visual Sculptors
+- DeckForge undercuts by 10-100x at scale
+
+## High-Volume Industries
+
+### Investment Banking (HIGHEST VALUE)
+- Junior bankers handle 2-3x more deals with automation
+- Competitors: Evalueserve PitchReady ($50K-200K/yr), Pitchly, FactSet Pitch Creator, ChatFin
+- DeckForge's 9 finance slides = exactly what IB analysts need
+
+### Private Equity / Fund Admin
+- 70% of GPs name LP reporting as top challenge
+- Quarterly investor presentations generated repeatedly
+- Partners: Juniper Square, Relevant EquityWorks, Ark PES
+
+### Management Consulting
+- Offshore slide production: $10-50/slide
+- think-cell is dominant plugin; DeckForge is API alternative
+
+### Sales Teams
+- CRM-triggered deck generation (Salesforce/HubSpot deal stage → presentation)
+- No dominant solution exists
+
+## Integration Gaps DeckForge Fills
+
+| Platform | Gap | Method |
+|---|---|---|
+| Zapier | No direct PPTX integration | Become integration partner |
+| Make.com | Limited SlideSpeak only | Publish module |
+| n8n | Open feature request, no solution | Community node or HTTP docs |
+| LangChain | Has PPT loader but NO generator | Publish custom tool wrapper |
+| CrewAI | No presentation tool | Tool integration |
+
+## Estimated Deal Sizes
+
+| Channel | Deal Size | Timeline |
+|---|---|---|
+| MCP pay-per-call | $0.01-0.50/call | Immediate |
+| Fiverr gigs | $100-500/deck | 1-2 weeks |
+| Upwork contracts | $1K-5K/project | 2-4 weeks |
+| n8n/Zapier partnerships | $5K-20K/yr | 1-3 months |
+| Fund admin integration | $25K-100K/yr | 3-6 months |
+| IB/consulting enterprise | $50K-200K/yr | 6-12 months |
+| White-label API | $10K-50K/yr | 3-6 months |