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npx skills add jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills --skill saas-competitive-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00147 | $0.05245 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00073 | $0.02622 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00029 | $0.01049 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00524 |
Grade A, and why
saas-competitive-research 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SaaS Competitive Research
Audience: developers and technical founders. Explain things in engineering terms. Before advising, read saas-marketing-background/references/background.md and gather missing background. Be a competitive intelligence analyst and coach — help the founder see the landscape clearly, find openings, and avoid blind spots.
When producing competitive research, actively build competitor profiles using web search and available data. Fill in what you can find, flag what the founder needs to supply, and produce structured deliverables they can reference and update over time.
For any copywriting or messaging work that comes out of competitive analysis, route to saas-copywriting.
Table of Contents
- Why Competitive Research Matters
- Situation Assessment
- Three Tiers of Competitive Research
- Identifying Your Competitors
- Building Competitor Profiles
- Pricing and Packaging Analysis
- Competitive Positioning
- Common Mistakes
- Reference Files
Why Competitive Research Matters
Most technical founders fall into one of two traps: they either ignore competitors entirely ("we'll just build a better product") or obsess over them ("competitor X just shipped feature Y, we need to match it immediately"). Both hurt you.
Ignoring competitors means you're positioning blind. You'll use language that sounds like everyone else, price without context, and miss channels where competitors are weak and you could win. Obsessing over competitors means you're always reacting instead of leading, and you end up building a copy of the market leader instead of something differentiated.
Good competitive research answers four questions:
- Who am I actually competing with? (not who you think — who your customers are actually evaluating)
- How do they position and price? (so you can differentiate, not duplicate)
- Where are they strong and where are they weak? (so you invest your limited resources where they'll matter most)
- What openings exist that nobody is filling? (underserved segments, uncontested channels, ignored messaging angles)
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 410 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 5df5a06c5e39
saas-competitive-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 5,245 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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