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A market-entry research workflow for sugary-drink-tax policy tracking

1. The task I chose

For this project, I built a workflow around a real research task: tracking how sugary-drink taxes are evolving across markets, and turning that research into a repeatable process a sugar-free drink brand could use before entering a new country. This mirrors the kind of market and policy briefing work I regularly need for business decisions.

The underlying research material — a sugary-drink-tax policy briefing summarizing global trends, thresholds, and action items — was used as the reference source Claude worked from throughout the workflow.

2. Problem this workflow solves

Sugary-drink-tax rules differ by country and change frequently (thresholds, rates, exemptions), making manual tracking slow and error-prone.

Without a repeatable process, the same research had to be redone from scratch for every new market under consideration.

There was no shared, up-to-date reference the whole team could work from when evaluating a launch market.

3. How I plan to use it

Re-run the saved market-check prompt for each shortlisted country before every quarterly market-entry review.

Keep the Project's shared knowledge (briefing + tax data table) updated as tax policy changes.

Use the policy-stability check to avoid over-investing in markets with a history of tax reversals.

4. Workflow plan

1. Research and organize information — gather the policy briefing and extract what matters for launch decisions.

2. Create reusable prompts or processes — package the research into a Project with saved instructions and a fill-in-the-blank prompt template.

3. Test and refine the workflow — run the template on a real market, check the output, and add missing checks.

5. Workflow walkthrough

Each step shows a screenshot illustrating what the Claude conversation looked like at that stage, paired with a short explanation.

Step 1 — Research and organize information

Step 2 — Organize into a reusable Project

Step 3 — Create a reusable prompt template

Step 4 — Test the workflow

Step 5 — Refine the workflow

Step 6 — Present the finished system

Finally, I asked Claude to summarize the whole workflow in one place: the problem it solves, the steps involved, and how the team will reuse it. This is the piece I'd post to the Project Gallery alongside the screenshots.

A market-entry research workflow for sugary-drink-tax policy tracking - image 1 - student project

A market-entry research workflow for sugary-drink-tax policy tracking - image 2 - student project

A market-entry research workflow for sugary-drink-tax policy tracking - image 3 - student project

A market-entry research workflow for sugary-drink-tax policy tracking - image 4 - student project

A market-entry research workflow for sugary-drink-tax policy tracking - image 5 - student project

A market-entry research workflow for sugary-drink-tax policy tracking - image 6 - student project

Summary

This workflow turns a recurring, manual research task — tracking sugary-drink-tax policy across markets — into a repeatable Claude Project with a reusable prompt template. The template was tested on a real market and refined once testing revealed a gap (policy-reversal risk), producing a finished system that can be reused every time a new market is evaluated.