competitive-intelligence

name	competitive-intelligence
description	Compare multiple competitors or strategic alternatives to identify market structure, patterns, gaps, risks, and implications from current sourced evidence. Use for cross-company synthesis; use competitor-profile when the task is one company.

Competitive intelligence

Turn comparable evidence into implications, not a feature-table beauty contest.

1. Define decision, competitor set, market boundary, comparison dimensions, and freshness threshold.
2. Normalize evidence into common fields and grade source quality.
3. Compare customer, job, offering, pricing, positioning, proof, distribution, economics, and momentum as relevant.
4. Identify clusters, outliers, convergence, gaps, and recent strategic moves.
5. Test alternative interpretations and name missing evidence.
6. Translate findings into threats, opportunities, no-regret actions, and monitoring signals.

Do not assume every difference is an advantage or repeat vendor claims as facts. Cite changing claims.

Read detailed-guide.md for matrices, battlecards, source rules, and synthesis templates. Load examples only when their decision context matches.