competitive-platform-analysis

A method for deciding which companies belong in a competitor comparison before research and scoring begin. It groups competitors as direct, adjacent, or aspirational based on a client's positioning, offer, customers, and differentiator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define and narrow a defensible competitor set and choose where to find information before running a competitive benchmarking project.
Why use it?
It prevents a market landscape from including the wrong companies or becoming an unmanageable list.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/gongyijie85/dsh-ecc/competitive-platform-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add gongyijie85/dsh-ecc --skill competitive-platform-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gongyijie85/dsh-ecc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00270

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Security

Grade A, and why

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Origin

This is a copy

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skills/competitive-platform-analysis/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

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What this file has done since we first saw it

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competitive-platform-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository gongyijie85/dsh-ecc (6 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,703 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to competitive-platform-analysis, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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