Skills

Startup Competitors

Deep competitive intelligence for any market.

Install

npx skills add ferdinandobons/startup-skill --skill startup-competitors -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Design
Updated
4mo ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Deep competitive intelligence for any market. Analyzes competitors' products, pricing, customer sentiment, GTM strategy, and growth signals using real web data. Produces battle cards, pricing landscape, and feature matrix. Use when the user wants to understand their competitive landscape, analyze competitors, compare products in a market, or research who they're competing against. Triggers for "who are my competitors", "competitive analysis", "competitor research", "battle cards", "pricing comparison", "competitor pricing", "market players", "competitive intelligence", "competitive landscape", "who else is in this space", "competitive moat", or any request to profile, compare, or map competitors in a category. Works standalone, no prior startup-design session needed.

Startup Competitors

Deep competitive intelligence that goes beyond surface-level profiles. Produces actionable battle cards, pricing landscape analysis, and strategic vulnerability mapping using real web data.

How It Works

INTAKE → RESEARCH (3 sequential waves) → SYNTHESIS → BATTLE CARDS

The process is focused: understand the product, research competitors deeply across 3 dimensions, synthesize findings, and produce actionable output. Typical runtime: 15-25 minutes in Claude Code (parallel agents), 30-45 minutes in Claude.ai (sequential).

Language

Default output language is English. If the user writes in another language or explicitly requests one, use that language for all outputs instead.


Phase 0: Resume Check

Before anything else, check if a PROGRESS.md created by this skill exists in the working directory or a project subdirectory (the skill name field says startup-competitors). If it does, read it and resume from the last incomplete phase. Tell the user: "I found progress from a previous session. You completed [phases]. Picking up from [next phase]."

If no progress file exists, or the one found belongs to a different skill, start from Phase 1.


Phase 1: Intake

Short and focused, 1-2 rounds of questions, not an extended interview. The goal is just enough context to run targeted research.

Check for Prior startup-design Work

Before asking questions, check if a startup-design session has already been completed for this project. Look for these files in the working directory or subdirectories:

  • 01-discovery/competitor-landscape.md, competitor profiles and analysis
  • 01-discovery/market-analysis.md, market size, trends, regulatory
  • 01-discovery/target-audience.md, customer personas, pain points
  • 00-intake/brief.md, product description and context
Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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