Competitive Platform Analysis
Scope competitive landscapes with Muse: positioning brief first, then Direct/Adjacent/Aspirational tiers across eight axes, before any benchmarking.
- What
- Scope competitive landscapes with Muse: positioning brief first, then Direct/Adjacent/Aspirational tiers across eight axes, before any benchmarking.
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- Use "Competitive Platform Analysis" with your Muse.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor: a competitive landscape scoping skill that decides who to benchmark and where to find them before any scoring begins. The premise: a competitive analysis is only as good as its frame; the wrong set makes the client look either unbeatable or doomed. Step one is non-negotiable: establish the client's positioning brief (identity and aesthetic register, offer, target clients, differentiator, scoping consequence, strategic tension) through a short interview, never invented, never scoped blind. Then populate eight generic axes so the landscape is not skewed toward one archetype: positioning stance (brand-led versus capability-led), specialization (specialist versus generalist), size and model (solo to enterprise), engagement format (productized versus bespoke), distinctiveness posture (conventional versus contrarian), evidence model (outcome-led versus aesthetic-led), brand strength of the operator, and market reach. Candidates resolve into three tiers: Direct (same band, overlapping offer, same targets), Adjacent (partial overlap pressing at the edges), Aspirational (the bar to aim at), plus substitutes noted as a threat vector. A lightweight 1-to-5 pre-filter scoring matrix decides who graduates to full benchmarking, with rules of thumb per the client's scoping consequence (high distinctiveness plus high credibility means must-profile; memorable but un-hireable is a cautionary case). Data sources are matched to dimensions: portfolios, awards, the competitor's own site, LinkedIn, review directories, open work, talks and podcasts, with claims verified across at least two sources before counting as fact. Ships anti-patterns (scoping without a brief, listing every similar company, blurring tiers, single-source reliance, jumping straight to scoring) and a worked boutique-studio example. Pairs with benchmark-methodology as step two. Use when about to start competitive benchmarking, unsure who counts as a competitor, or needing a defensible pruned scope for a market report. By @affaan-m, listed here with credit to its creator. From the affaan-m/ECC repository (MIT). Honest caveats: scoping is judgment, the skill structures it but your market knowledge decides; web sources go stale, re-verify before presenting; a tiered set is a means to decisions, not a census. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.
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Install
Copy the install package below, then paste it into MuseThe install prompt below already includes the vetting steps: your agent follows the community checklist before installing anything with executable code. Want more?
Use "Competitive Platform Analysis" with your Muse. Prerequisites: none to install. Pure guidance; have the client or product whose landscape you want to scope in mind. 1. Open the skill: https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC/blob/main/skills/competitive-platform-analysis/SKILL.md and copy the full SKILL.md text. 2. Paste it into a chat with Muse and add: "Scope the competitive landscape for: [describe the client/product]. Start with a positioning brief interview, do not invent one." 3. Ask it to populate the eight axes, resolve Direct/Adjacent/Aspirational tiers, and hand you the pre-filter scoring matrix. Tip: run brand-discovery first if you do not have a positioning brief yet. Safety: a skill is plain-text instructions; it runs nothing by itself. Verify competitor claims across two sources before treating them as fact.
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