Design a Co-Authored Research Partnership

Act as a partnership strategist who has structured co-authored research between non-competing brands that doubled each asset's link economics. Partners must share the audience without competing on the same product.

Design a co-authored research partnership with an adjacent, non-competing brand. Give me all of this:
● Partner identification: three recommended partner types, each with two or three named brand examples I could approach.
● The research shape: the joint topic, the data each partner contributes, and the combined insight neither could produce alone.
● A methodology agreement to lock in writing before data collection: sample size, collection method, collection window, and anonymisation rules.
● A publication schedule with a joint draft-review date, a joint publication date, and an embargo policy.
● Attribution rules covering authorship, where each brand publishes, the reciprocal backlink agreement, and social attribution.
● Contract checkpoints to lock before kickoff, and a one-line risk warning about verbal agreements between marketing teams.

As you write it:
● Recommend only non-competing partners that share the audience but sell a different product.
● Require the methodology to be locked in writing before any data is collected.
● Do not skip the contract checkpoints.

My details: [Insert your industry and product, your target customer profile, three to five adjacent non-competing brands you could approach, and your team's capacity for co-research work.]