positioning-strategy

positioning-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from beingsmit/technical-product-gtm. It costs 55 tokens per session (3,146 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gtm-positioning-strategy, MIT.

A framework for deciding how a product should be described and differentiated in its market. Positioning is the place a product aims to occupy in buyers' minds compared with alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test product claims, improve sales messaging, prepare launches, and guide a repositioning before a rebrand.
Why use it?
It helps when buyers see the product as interchangeable, messaging resembles competitors, or awareness is not turning into sales.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the technical-product-gtm plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to test product claims, improve sales messaging, prepare launches, and guide a repositioning before a rebrand.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beingsmit/technical-product-gtm/positioning-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add beingsmit/technical-product-gtm --skill positioning-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beingsmit/technical-product-gtm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install technical-product-gtm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,146 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.03146
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01573
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00629
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00315

Measured 10d ago against content hash b3b522fb2db3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

positioning-strategy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to gtm-positioning-strategy — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/positioning-strategy/SKILL.md · 440 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 440 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Positioning Strategy

Find and own a defensible market position. Turn generic messaging into clear differentiation — or at least test whether your differentiation actually resonates before committing to it.

When to Use

Triggers:

  • "Our messaging sounds exactly like competitors"
  • "Brand awareness is strong but conversion is weak"
  • "Sales team can't explain why we're different"
  • "Buyers see us as interchangeable"
  • "Should we reposition before we rebrand?"
  • "How do we test positioning claims?"

Context:

  • Competitive markets with similar offerings
  • Messaging that isn't converting
  • New product launches
  • Repositioning existing products
  • Sales team reports buyer confusion

Core Frameworks

1. One Word Can Change Everything (The "Autonomous" Problem)

The Pattern:

Early enterprise conversations for an autonomous AI product. Positioned as "autonomous AI agent."

Developers: "Cool, but scary." Managers: "Will this replace our team?" Deal progression: Slow. Lots of "we'll think about it."

The Change:

One word: "autonomous" → "AI teammate"

Same product. Same capabilities. Different framing.

Result:

Developers: "This helps me." Managers: "This makes my team more productive." Deal progression: Measurably faster.

Why This Matters:

Positioning isn't what you do. It's what you don't say.

We could've said "replaces developers" (technically true for some tasks). Would've killed every enterprise deal.

The Framework: Word Choice Shapes Buyer Psychology

Words that scare enterprises:

  • Autonomous (implies: no control, replacing humans)
  • Replaces (threatens: job security)
  • Fully automated (removes: human judgment)
  • AI-first (means: unclear, buzzword)

Words that convert:

  • Teammate (implies: collaboration, helping)
  • Augments (helps: makes humans better)
  • You stay in control (reassures: human oversight)
  • Handles repetitive work (specific: saves time)

How to Test Word Choice:

Don't guess. Test.

Test 1: Outbound Email A/B

  • Send 100 prospects Version A ("autonomous agent")
  • Send 100 prospects Version B ("AI teammate")
  • Measure: Reply rate, meeting booked rate
  • Signal strength: High (real buyer intent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 440 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 440 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A b3b522fb2db3

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positioning-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository beingsmit/technical-product-gtm (42 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 3,146 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to gtm-positioning-strategy, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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