competitive-positioning

competitive-positioning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,014 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for comparing competitors and deciding how a brand should stand out. It covers direct alternatives, indirect alternatives such as manual work, customer feedback, pricing, and sales objections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Entering a market, responding to a new competitor, preparing sales battlecards, handling objections, reviewing pricing, or assessing partnerships and acquisitions.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague competitor opinions with a structured view of who customers compare, why deals are won or lost, and where the real differences are.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the everything-claude-marketing plugin — 15 skills, 22 commands, 18 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing/competitive-positioning
Any agent
npx skills add brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing --skill competitive-positioning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install everything-claude-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 22 commands, 18 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,014 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00023 $0.02014
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01007
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00201

Measured 3d ago against content hash b8331739883d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-positioning 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 3d 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.

skills/brand/competitive-positioning/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Positioning

When to Activate

  • Entering a new market and need to understand the competitive landscape
  • A new competitor has emerged and is taking market share
  • Sales team is losing deals to specific competitors and needs better positioning
  • Refreshing competitive intelligence for annual planning
  • Building sales enablement materials (battlecards, objection handling)
  • Pricing decisions that require competitive context
  • Evaluating potential partnerships or acquisitions in the competitive space

First Questions

  1. Who do your customers consider as alternatives? (Not who you think — who they actually compare you to.)
  2. Why do you win deals, and why do you lose them?
  3. What do customers say about competitors in reviews, forums, and sales calls?
  4. Which competitors are growing fastest, and why?
  5. Where do you overlap with competitors, and where are you genuinely different?
  6. Are there non-obvious competitors (spreadsheets, manual processes, "do nothing")?
  7. What competitive intelligence do you already have, and how current is it?

Competitive Landscape Mapping

Step 1: Identify Competitors

Map competitors in three tiers:

Direct competitors — Same product category, same target customer. They solve the same problem the same way.

Indirect competitors — Different product category, same customer need. They solve the same problem a different way.

Substitute competitors — What customers use instead of any purpose-built solution. Often the real competition (spreadsheets, email, manual processes, hiring an intern).

Step 2: Build Competitor Profiles

For each significant competitor, document:

Company: [Name]
Website: [URL]
Founded: [Year]
Funding/Revenue: [If available]
Headcount: [Approximate]
Target Market: [Who they sell to]
Core Product: [What they sell]
Positioning: [How they describe themselves — use their own words]
Key Strengths: [What they do well]
Key Weaknesses: [Where they fall short]
Pricing Model: [How they charge]
Recent Moves: [Product launches, funding, pivots, hires in last 12 months]
Win Rate Against: [% of deals won/lost vs this competitor, if known]
Common Objections: [What customers say when considering them over you]

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 3d ago First seen · 223 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A b8331739883d

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competitive-positioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,014 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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