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Closes leeworks-agents/api-company#102

Documents why ZIP Enrichment, Holidays, and Air Quality were chosen:
- ZIP: 10-15k RapidAPI subscriber demand; USPS/Census free dataset
- Holidays: 50k subs on top competitor (AbstractAPI); Nager.Date gap
- AQI: 8k subs on top competitor; OpenAQ open dataset fills -49/mo gap

RapidAPI competitor subscriber counts documented for all 3 categories.

Identifies 3 new API candidates with data sources and demand evidence:
1. Business Hours API — OSM opening_hours — high revenue potential
2. Vehicle VIN Decoder — NHTSA vPIC (gov data) — high revenue potential
3. Time Zone by Coordinates — timezone-boundary-builder — medium-high

Decision: build VIN Decoder next (strongest paid demand evidence,
government data source, simple API surface).

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RESEARCH_LOG.md

[Phase 1-3] research: seed RESEARCH_LOG.md with first market research session

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