Competitive Research Snapshot
Research a competitive landscape with cited snapshots, a comparison matrix, and so-what...
Install
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill competitive-research-snapshot -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills7.8k
- Category
- Writing
- Updated
- 20d ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,180 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Research a competitive landscape with cited snapshots, a comparison matrix, and so-what implications. Use when a product decision needs competitive grounding, not a market report.
Competitive Research Snapshot
Purpose
Research a company's competitive landscape using a workflow, not a one-shot answer: search plan → competitor selection → just-enough research → fact/inference labels → real URL citations → next-step options. The output is a decision-support snapshot, not a market report, and because its schema is stable, downstream skills (battle cards, delta monitors) can consume it and diff it. Because it proceeds on labeled assumptions when questions go unanswered, it can run as an agent task or on a schedule; re-run it and diff against the prior snapshot.
Input
Works best with: the company, product, or segment to research, and the decision this research
should support (positioning, roadmap bet, deal support, board prep), the decision determines what
"just enough" means.
Also useful: known competitors (or explicit permission to identify them), and any prior snapshot
or market-landscape-scan output in session, the skill builds on evidence already gathered rather
than re-researching it.
Input supplied inline with the invocation, text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an
appended ARGUMENTS: line, counts as answers already given. Use it against the question budget;
don't re-ask.
Arriving empty-handed? That works too. The skill opens with at most 3 questions (subject, decision, competitors) and proceeds on labeled assumptions if they go unanswered.
Example invocation: Competitive research snapshot on our expense-automation product, decision: which roadmap bet wins Q1. Competitors: [Competitor A], [Competitor B]; find a third if one matters.
