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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.

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Competitive Platform Analysis

Use this skill to decide who to benchmark and where to find them before any scoring begins. A competitive analysis is only as good as its frame: the wrong set makes the client look either unbeatable or doomed. The goal is a defensible, decision-relevant set — not an exhaustive census.

When to Activate

About to start a competitive benchmarking project and need to define the competitor set first.
Unsure which companies belong in Direct / Adjacent / Aspirational tiers.
Need a defensible, pruned scope for a market landscape report.
Has a positioning brief and wants to identify who contests that position.
First step before running benchmark-methodology.

Client positioning brief (establish first)

Before scoping the set, establish the client's positioning brief. If you don't already have it, run a short brand-discovery interview to elicit it — do not invent one and do not scope the set blind. The brief supplies:

Identity / aesthetic register — what kind of studio or company this is and how it presents itself.
Offer — what services or products it delivers.
Target clients — who it sells to.
Differentiator — the moat or positioning argument the client believes in.
Scoping consequence — the implication for how to weight competitors (e.g., prioritize by distinctiveness vs. capability overlap vs. price).
Strategic tension — the paired axes that define the client's white-space (e.g., memorability × hireability).

Do not proceed without the positioning brief. A competitor list scoped without the client's lens is noise, not intelligence. The scoping consequence in particular determines which competitors are strong rivals (those that contest the client's moat) vs. merely overlapping on service menu.

Selection criteria

For each candidate, capture these axes — they decide both inclusion and tier:

Size / model — solo, micro-studio (2–8), boutique (sub-30), mid-size agency. Match the client's own band; same-band studios are the realistic head-to-head set.
Niche / specialization — how closely the candidate's focus overlaps with the client's offer. Tighter overlap = more direct.
Geography / market — EU vs US vs global-remote; language; time-zone reach. Note whether they win the same clients the client targets.
Pricing & engagement model — productized sprints, retainer, project, day-rate; transparent vs "contact us". Signals positioning maturity.
Portfolio style — generic vs. opinionated/editorial vs. contrarian. Closer to the client's aesthetic register = more they contest the client's distinctiveness.
Technical depth / craft maturity — relevant if the client's credibility story includes public process work, open tooling, or documented systems.
Brand strength — does the studio have an ownable verbal/visual identity, or is it interchangeable? Weight this per the client's scoping consequence.

Player taxonomy — axes to populate across

Don't sort competitors into niche-specific buckets; sort them along a few generic axes so the landscape isn't skewed toward one archetype. These axes apply to any creative-service market (design, motion, copywriting, branding, content, film, etc.). Aim for breadth across each axis first, then prune to the most instructive.

Positioning stance — brand-led / editorial (competes on identity, voice, POV) vs capability-led (competes on craft, throughput, outcomes). Populate both poles; the client's closest mirror sits at its own end.
Specialization — specialist (one tight discipline or vertical) vs generalist (broad service menu). Tighter overlap with the client's focus = more direct.
Size / model — solo / micro vs boutique vs mid-size vs enterprise-scale. Same-band players are the realistic head-to-head; larger bands are the aspirational/commercial-maturity reference.
Engagement format — productized (named sprints, audits, fixed packages) vs bespoke (custom project / retainer). Signals positioning maturity.
Distinctiveness posture — conventional / safe vs contrarian / manifesto-driven. The opinionated end is key for distinctiveness benchmarking in any niche.
Evidence / credibility model — outcome-led (metrics, named clients, case depth) vs aesthetic-led (portfolio, awards). Tells you how each player earns trust.
Brand strength of the operator — interchangeable vs cult / ownable identity (including senior independents who prove the "memorable solo brand" model).
Market / reach — local / regional vs global-remote; note whether they win the same clients the client targets.

Plot each candidate on the relevant axes; a competitor is direct when it sits near the client on positioning, specialization, size, and market at once.

Competitive tiers (how the set resolves)

Group the final set into three tiers — this structure carries through to the report:

Direct — same band, overlapping offer, same client targets. The realistic head-to-head.
Adjacent — partial overlap (one capability, or a different client size) that pressures at the edges.
Aspirational — players the client is not competing with today but whose brand or commercial maturity sets the bar to aim at.
(Watch also for substitutes: no-code/AI tools, in-house teams, generalist freelancers — note as a threat vector, not a profiled competitor unless materially relevant.)

Data sources (where to look)

Match the source to the dimension you need. The platform types below are generic; substitute the ones native to the client's niche (e.g. Dribbble/Behance for design, showreel/Vimeo for motion, writing samples/published work for copy):

Portfolio / craft platforms — craft quality, range, aesthetic register (e.g. Dribbble, Behance, Vimeo, or the niche's equivalent showcase).
Awards / curated showcases — craft ambition and editorial recognition; over-indexes on flashy, so cross-check commercial credibility (e.g. Awwwards, industry award lists).
Competitor's own site — primary source for positioning, voice, offer packaging, pricing posture, named clients, manifesto/POV.
LinkedIn — team size/model, founder narrative, post cadence, client logos, geography.
Review directories — reviews, named clients, project sizes, engagement models; strongest signal for commercial credibility and enterprise-readiness (e.g. Clutch.co or the niche's equivalent).
Open / public work — process repos, published samples, open creative output: depth and craft-transparency evidence.
Conference talks / podcasts / newsletters — thought-leadership depth and POV ownership.

Always verify claims across at least two sources before treating a competitor attribute as fact (self-reported site copy ≠ verified outcome). Carry an adversarial-verification discipline into every profile.

Scoring matrix template (selection stage)

A lightweight pre-filter to decide who graduates into full benchmarking. Score 1–5; keep candidates that score high on either distinctiveness or credibility — the client's strategic tension means both poles are instructive.

Candidate	Positioning stance	Specialization	Size band	Tier	Offer overlap (1–5)	Distinctiveness (1–5)	Commercial credibility (1–5)	Craft proximity (1–5)	Include?

Rules of thumb (apply per the client's scoping consequence in the positioning brief):

High distinctiveness and high credibility → must-profile (proves the client's target tension is achievable).
High distinctiveness, low credibility → cautionary case (memorable but un-hireable — a potential failure mode to learn from).
High credibility, low distinctiveness → "competent but forgettable" mass the client defines itself against.
Low on both → drop unless needed for landscape breadth.

Output of this stage

A scoped, tiered competitor set (typically 10–18 candidates → 8–12 profiled), each tagged with its axis positions, tier, and source links, ready to hand to benchmark-methodology.

Anti-Patterns

Scoping without a positioning brief. A competitor list built without the client's lens is noise. The brief determines what counts as a real rival.
Listing every similar company. The goal is a defensible 10–18 candidate set, not a census. Breadth without pruning makes benchmarking unmanageable.
Blurring the Direct/Adjacent/Aspirational tiers. These tiers serve different strategic purposes. Mixing them produces a flat list that can't drive decisions.
Relying on a single source per competitor. Self-reported site copy is marketing, not fact. Verify attributes across at least two sources.
Jumping straight to scoring. This skill scopes and tiers the set. Benchmark-methodology handles scoring. Don't conflate the two steps.

Examples

Scenario: A boutique brand-identity studio (2-person, EU-remote, productized sprints, contrarian/manifesto-driven aesthetic) wants to scope its competitive set before benchmarking. The strategic tension from the positioning brief is memorability × hireability.

Step 1 — eight-axis population (sample candidates):

Candidate	Positioning stance	Specialization	Size band	Engagement	Distinctiveness	Evidence model	Brand strength	Market
Studio A	brand-led / editorial	identity only	micro	productized	contrarian	aesthetic-led	cult	global-remote
Studio B	capability-led	broad DS+motion	boutique	bespoke	conventional	outcome-led	interchangeable	US
Agency C	capability-led	brand+digital	mid-size	retainer	conventional	outcome-led	interchangeable	EU
Freelancer D	brand-led	brand voice only	solo	day-rate	editorial	aesthetic-led	ownable	global
Studio E	brand-led	brand strategy	micro	productized	manifesto-driven	outcome-led	cult	EU-remote

Step 2 — pre-filter scoring (client scoping consequence: weight distinctiveness because the client's moat is POV-first, not capability breadth):

Candidate	Offer overlap (1–5)	Distinctiveness (1–5)	Commercial credibility (1–5)	Craft proximity (1–5)	Tier	Include?
Studio A	5	5	3	5	Direct	✓ must-profile
Studio B	3	2	5	3	Adjacent	✓ credibility anchor
Agency C	2	1	5	2	Aspirational	✓ scale reference
Freelancer D	4	4	2	4	Direct	✓ cautionary case
Studio E	5	5	4	4	Direct	✓ must-profile

Step 3 — output handed to benchmark-methodology: Five candidates (3 Direct, 1 Adjacent, 1 Aspirational), each tagged with axis positions, tier, and source links. Studio A and Studio E are the sharpest head-to-head rivals; Freelancer D is the "memorable but un-hireable" cautionary case to learn from.

brand-discovery — use first to establish the positioning brief and strategic tension that scopes the competitor set.
benchmark-methodology — the next step; takes the tiered set and scores each competitor across nine dimensions.

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name: competitive-platform-analysis
description: >-
  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.

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name: competitive-platform-analysis
description: >-
  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.
---

# Competitive Platform Analysis

Use this skill to decide **who to benchmark** and **where to find them** before
any scoring begins. A competitive analysis is only as good as its frame: the
wrong set makes the client look either unbeatable or doomed. The goal is a
defensible, decision-relevant set — not an exhaustive census.

## When to Activate

- About to start a competitive benchmarking project and need to define the competitor set first.
- Unsure which companies belong in Direct / Adjacent / Aspirational tiers.
- Need a defensible, pruned scope for a market landscape report.
- Has a positioning brief and wants to identify who contests that position.
- First step before running benchmark-methodology.

## Client positioning brief (establish first)

Before scoping the set, establish the client's positioning brief. If you don't
already have it, run a short brand-discovery interview to elicit it — do **not**
invent one and do **not** scope the set blind. The brief supplies:

- **Identity / aesthetic register** — what kind of studio or company this is and
  how it presents itself.
- **Offer** — what services or products it delivers.
- **Target clients** — who it sells to.
- **Differentiator** — the moat or positioning argument the client believes in.
- **Scoping consequence** — the implication for how to weight competitors (e.g.,
  prioritize by distinctiveness vs. capability overlap vs. price).
- **Strategic tension** — the paired axes that define the client's white-space
  (e.g., memorability × hireability).

**Do not proceed without the positioning brief.** A competitor list scoped
without the client's lens is noise, not intelligence. The scoping consequence in
particular determines which competitors are *strong* rivals (those that contest
the client's moat) vs. merely overlapping on service menu.

## Selection criteria

For each candidate, capture these axes — they decide both inclusion and tier:

- **Size / model** — solo, micro-studio (2–8), boutique (sub-30), mid-size
  agency. Match the client's own band; same-band studios are the realistic
  head-to-head set.
- **Niche / specialization** — how closely the candidate's focus overlaps with
  the client's offer. Tighter overlap = more direct.
- **Geography / market** — EU vs US vs global-remote; language; time-zone reach.
  Note whether they win the same clients the client targets.
- **Pricing & engagement model** — productized sprints, retainer, project,
  day-rate; transparent vs "contact us". Signals positioning maturity.
- **Portfolio style** — generic vs. opinionated/editorial vs. contrarian. Closer
  to the client's aesthetic register = more they contest the client's
  distinctiveness.
- **Technical depth / craft maturity** — relevant if the client's credibility
  story includes public process work, open tooling, or documented systems.
- **Brand strength** — does the studio have an ownable verbal/visual identity, or
  is it interchangeable? Weight this per the client's scoping consequence.

## Player taxonomy — axes to populate across

Don't sort competitors into niche-specific buckets; sort them along a few
generic axes so the landscape isn't skewed toward one archetype. These axes
apply to any creative-service market (design, motion, copywriting, branding,
content, film, etc.). Aim for breadth across each axis first, then prune to the
most instructive.

1. **Positioning stance** — *brand-led / editorial* (competes on identity,
   voice, POV) vs *capability-led* (competes on craft, throughput, outcomes).
   Populate both poles; the client's closest mirror sits at its own end.
2. **Specialization** — *specialist* (one tight discipline or vertical) vs
   *generalist* (broad service menu). Tighter overlap with the client's focus =
   more direct.
3. **Size / model** — *solo / micro* vs *boutique* vs *mid-size* vs
   *enterprise-scale*. Same-band players are the realistic head-to-head; larger
   bands are the aspirational/commercial-maturity reference.
4. **Engagement format** — *productized* (named sprints, audits, fixed packages)
   vs *bespoke* (custom project / retainer). Signals positioning maturity.
5. **Distinctiveness posture** — *conventional / safe* vs *contrarian /
   manifesto-driven*. The opinionated end is key for distinctiveness
   benchmarking in any niche.
6. **Evidence / credibility model** — *outcome-led* (metrics, named clients,
   case depth) vs *aesthetic-led* (portfolio, awards). Tells you how each player
   earns trust.
7. **Brand strength of the operator** — *interchangeable* vs *cult / ownable
   identity* (including senior independents who prove the "memorable solo brand"
   model).
8. **Market / reach** — *local / regional* vs *global-remote*; note whether they
   win the same clients the client targets.

Plot each candidate on the relevant axes; a competitor is *direct* when it sits
near the client on positioning, specialization, size, and market at once.

## Competitive tiers (how the set resolves)

Group the final set into three tiers — this structure carries through to the
report:

- **Direct** — same band, overlapping offer, same client targets. The realistic
  head-to-head.
- **Adjacent** — partial overlap (one capability, or a different client size)
  that pressures at the edges.
- **Aspirational** — players the client is not competing with today but whose
  brand or commercial maturity sets the bar to aim at.
- *(Watch also for substitutes: no-code/AI tools, in-house teams, generalist
  freelancers — note as a threat vector, not a profiled competitor unless
  materially relevant.)*

## Data sources (where to look)

Match the source to the dimension you need. The platform *types* below are
generic; substitute the ones native to the client's niche (e.g. Dribbble/Behance
for design, showreel/Vimeo for motion, writing samples/published work for copy):

- **Portfolio / craft platforms** — craft quality, range, aesthetic register
  (e.g. Dribbble, Behance, Vimeo, or the niche's equivalent showcase).
- **Awards / curated showcases** — craft ambition and editorial recognition;
  over-indexes on flashy, so cross-check commercial credibility (e.g. Awwwards,
  industry award lists).
- **Competitor's own site** — primary source for positioning, voice, offer
  packaging, pricing posture, named clients, manifesto/POV.
- **LinkedIn** — team size/model, founder narrative, post cadence, client logos,
  geography.
- **Review directories** — reviews, named clients, project sizes, engagement
  models; strongest signal for commercial credibility and enterprise-readiness
  (e.g. Clutch.co or the niche's equivalent).
- **Open / public work** — process repos, published samples, open creative
  output: depth and craft-transparency evidence.
- **Conference talks / podcasts / newsletters** — thought-leadership depth and
  POV ownership.

Always **verify claims across at least two sources** before treating a competitor
attribute as fact (self-reported site copy ≠ verified outcome). Carry an
adversarial-verification discipline into every profile.

## Scoring matrix template (selection stage)

A lightweight pre-filter to decide who graduates into full benchmarking. Score
1–5; keep candidates that score high on **either** distinctiveness **or**
credibility — the client's strategic tension means both poles are instructive.

| Candidate | Positioning stance | Specialization | Size band | Tier | Offer overlap (1–5) | Distinctiveness (1–5) | Commercial credibility (1–5) | Craft proximity (1–5) | Include? |
|-----------|--------------------|----------------|-----------|------|---------------------|------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------|----------|

Rules of thumb (apply per the client's scoping consequence in the positioning brief):

- High distinctiveness **and** high credibility → must-profile (proves the
  client's target tension is achievable).
- High distinctiveness, low credibility → cautionary case (memorable but
  un-hireable — a potential failure mode to learn from).
- High credibility, low distinctiveness → "competent but forgettable" mass the
  client defines itself against.
- Low on both → drop unless needed for landscape breadth.

## Output of this stage

A scoped, tiered competitor set (typically 10–18 candidates → 8–12 profiled),
each tagged with its axis positions, tier, and source links, ready to hand to
`benchmark-methodology`.

## Anti-Patterns

- **Scoping without a positioning brief.** A competitor list built without the client's lens is noise. The brief determines what counts as a real rival.
- **Listing every similar company.** The goal is a defensible 10–18 candidate set, not a census. Breadth without pruning makes benchmarking unmanageable.
- **Blurring the Direct/Adjacent/Aspirational tiers.** These tiers serve different strategic purposes. Mixing them produces a flat list that can't drive decisions.
- **Relying on a single source per competitor.** Self-reported site copy is marketing, not fact. Verify attributes across at least two sources.
- **Jumping straight to scoring.** This skill scopes and tiers the set. Benchmark-methodology handles scoring. Don't conflate the two steps.

## Examples

**Scenario:** A boutique brand-identity studio (2-person, EU-remote, productized
sprints, contrarian/manifesto-driven aesthetic) wants to scope its competitive
set before benchmarking. The strategic tension from the positioning brief is
*memorability × hireability*.

**Step 1 — eight-axis population (sample candidates):**

| Candidate | Positioning stance | Specialization | Size band | Engagement | Distinctiveness | Evidence model | Brand strength | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio A | brand-led / editorial | identity only | micro | productized | contrarian | aesthetic-led | cult | global-remote |
| Studio B | capability-led | broad DS+motion | boutique | bespoke | conventional | outcome-led | interchangeable | US |
| Agency C | capability-led | brand+digital | mid-size | retainer | conventional | outcome-led | interchangeable | EU |
| Freelancer D | brand-led | brand voice only | solo | day-rate | editorial | aesthetic-led | ownable | global |
| Studio E | brand-led | brand strategy | micro | productized | manifesto-driven | outcome-led | cult | EU-remote |

**Step 2 — pre-filter scoring (client scoping consequence: weight distinctiveness
because the client's moat is POV-first, not capability breadth):**

| Candidate | Offer overlap (1–5) | Distinctiveness (1–5) | Commercial credibility (1–5) | Craft proximity (1–5) | Tier | Include? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio A | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Direct | ✓ must-profile |
| Studio B | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | Adjacent | ✓ credibility anchor |
| Agency C | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | Aspirational | ✓ scale reference |
| Freelancer D | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | Direct | ✓ cautionary case |
| Studio E | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Direct | ✓ must-profile |

**Step 3 — output handed to `benchmark-methodology`:**
Five candidates (3 Direct, 1 Adjacent, 1 Aspirational), each tagged with
axis positions, tier, and source links. Studio A and Studio E are the
sharpest head-to-head rivals; Freelancer D is the "memorable but
un-hireable" cautionary case to learn from.

## Related Skills

- `brand-discovery` — use first to establish the positioning brief and strategic tension that scopes the competitor set.
- `benchmark-methodology` — the next step; takes the tiered set and scores each competitor across nine dimensions.

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Competitive Platform Analysis

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