Run competitor analysis with a research skill team
The author built SKILL.md bundles for research roles such as competitive and market intelligence, and dogfooded the Research Team on competitor analysis.
Done with a custom-built or unnamed agent
- What they did
- The author created 30 SKILL.md bundles across five teams, including a Research Team with roles like competitive-intelligence and market-intelligence analyst. Each skill spells out role scope, required output formats, intake questions, and specialist framing, then is installed as a slash-invoked agent in Claude Code; the author says they used the Research Team themselves for competitor analysis.
- How it went
- The reported result was that tightly specified specialist skills worked better than generic personas, especially for harder roles like Competitive Intelligence Analyst. The post gives no concrete competitor-analysis example, workflow trace, or performance numbers.
- Worth knowing
- The main catch is setup quality: the author says generic role prompts were weak, and the best results came from explicit instructions for what output to produce for each task.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Act as a competitive intelligence analyst. Research [my company or product] versus [3-5 competitors] and cover pricing, features, positioning, target customers, and recent news. Save the results as a comparison table and a one-page summary of where we're ahead, behind, and what to do about it, with a source link for each claim. You're done when both files exist and any gaps or uncertain facts are clearly marked.
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