competitive-platform-analysis
Analyzes and categorizes competitors to define a focused benchmarking scope based on positioning, niche, and market data.
What it does
Use when scoping a competitive landscape — identifying, categorising, and score-filtering a competitor set before any benchmarking begins. Decides who counts as a competitor, which tier they belong to, and which sources to mine. First step in the three-skill competitive pipeline; precedes benchmark-methodology.
Quality judgment
Excellent skill: clear activation triggers, a mandatory positioning-brief gate, well-defined axes, tiers, sources, scoring template, anti-patterns, and a worked example with tables. It is tightly integrated into a pipeline and consistently emphasizes defensibility over exhaustiveness; only minor deduction for the example being skewed toward creative-studio markets despite genericization efforts.