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ferdinandobons/startup-skill

AI agent skills for startup validation, competitive intelligence, and planning

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How it works

startup-competitors

When your agent uses it

Deep competitive intelligence for any market. Analyzes competitors' products, pricing, customer sentiment, GTM strategy, and growth signals using real web data. Produces battle cards, pricing landscape, and feature matrix. Use when the user wants to understand their competitive landscape, analyze competitors, compare products in a market, or research who they're competing against. Triggers for "who are my competitors", "competitive analysis", "competitor research", "battle cards", "pricing comparison", "competitor pricing", "market players", "competitive intelligence", "competitive landscape", "who else is in this space", "competitive moat", or any request to profile, compare, or map competitors in a category. Works standalone — no prior startup-design session needed.

What it loads into context

Frontmatter

159 tokens

Always available to the agent

SKILL.md

3,570 tokens

When the skill is activated

Reference documents

73,828 tokens

Loaded on request

Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.

The playbook

  1. How It Works
  2. Phase 0: Resume Check
  3. Phase 1: Intake
  4. Phase 1.5: Research Depth Assessment
  5. Phase 2: Research
  6. Phase 3: Synthesis
  7. Phase 3.5: Research Verification
  8. Honesty Protocol
  9. Reference Files

Files

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  • SKILL.mdcore16,604 bytes
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  • references/honesty-protocol.mddoc4,949 bytes
  • references/research-principles.mddoc2,860 bytes
  • references/research-scaling.mddoc4,426 bytes
  • references/research-synthesis.mddoc8,745 bytes
  • references/research-wave-1-profiles-pricing.mddoc6,976 bytes
  • references/research-wave-2-sentiment-mining.mddoc6,976 bytes
  • references/research-wave-3-gtm-signals.mddoc7,327 bytes
  • references/verification-agent.mddoc5,249 bytes
  • ../startup-design/SKILL.mddoc32,535 bytes
  • ../startup-design/references/customer-interview.mddoc8,841 bytes
  • ../startup-design/references/frameworks.mddoc6,224 bytes
  • ../startup-design/references/honesty-protocol.mddoc5,069 bytes
  • ../startup-design/references/industry-benchmarks.mddoc2,891 bytes
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  • ../startup-design/references/research-wave-3-customers.mddoc8,546 bytes
  • ../startup-design/references/research-wave-4-distribution.mddoc4,187 bytes
  • ../startup-design/references/verification-agent.mddoc5,205 bytes
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Read SKILL.md

# Startup Competitors

Deep competitive intelligence that goes beyond surface-level profiles. Produces actionable battle cards, pricing landscape analysis, and strategic vulnerability mapping using real web data.

## How It Works

```
INTAKE → RESEARCH (3 sequential waves) → SYNTHESIS → BATTLE CARDS
```

The process is focused: understand the product, research competitors deeply across 3 dimensions, synthesize findings, and produce actionable output. Typical runtime: 15-25 minutes in Claude Code (parallel agents), 30-45 minutes in Claude.ai (sequential).

### Language
View the complete source on GitHub

Skills included

  • startup-competitors
  • startup-design
  • startup-pitch
  • startup-positioning

Repository facts

License
MIT
Created
Mar 6, 2026
Last pushed
Jul 1, 2026
Forks
165
Open issues
1
Project activity
Slowing

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Before you install

Instructions only

Automated signals, not a guarantee

Checked Nov 3, 2026

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  • No broad tool permissions
  • No dangerous shell commands
  • No network access
  • No hidden or obfuscated text
  • No instruction overrides
  • No executable scripts
  • No access to secrets
  • No requests to vote in Hot

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AgentStatusEvidenceInstall to
Claude CodeNativeManifest .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.claude/skills/<skill-name>/
CodexNativeManifest AGENTS.md.agents/skills/<skill-name>/
CursorCompatibleStandard SKILL.md startup-competitors/SKILL.md.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/
Gemini CLICompatibleStandard SKILL.md startup-competitors/SKILL.md.gemini/skills/<skill-name>/
GitHub CopilotCompatibleStandard SKILL.md startup-competitors/SKILL.md.github/skills/<skill-name>/
OpenCodeCompatibleStandard SKILL.md startup-competitors/SKILL.md.opencode/skills/<skill-name>/
  • Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
  • Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
  • Unknown No evidence either way.

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