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Competitor Teardown

Run a full competitive intelligence analysis on any business — pricing, positioning, tech stack, content strategy, social presence — and get a SWOT brief.

Works with: claude-code

The Competitor Copy Analyzer looks at messaging. This goes deeper. Point it at a competitor’s domain and it pulls apart their entire business: pricing model, market positioning, product differentiation, content and SEO footprint, social presence, and tech stack. You get a structured SWOT analysis and specific counter-positioning suggestions you can act on.

What Makes This a Claude Code Skill

Claude Code uses Firecrawl and WebFetch to scrape competitor sites across multiple pages — homepage, pricing, blog, about, docs. It then cross-references your own project files for positioning gaps. The output is a full intelligence report written directly to your project, not a summary in a chat window.

The command file lives at .claude/commands/competitor-teardown.md in this project.

What Gets Analyzed

  • Pricing Strategy — free tier structure, plan names, price points, annual vs monthly, enterprise gating
  • Market Positioning — who they say they’re for, primary value prop, how they frame the category
  • Product Differentiation — unique features they highlight, what they compare against, integration ecosystem
  • Content & SEO Footprint — blog frequency, topic clusters, keyword targeting patterns, content depth
  • Social Presence — active platforms, posting frequency, engagement patterns, community size
  • Tech Stack — detected frameworks, analytics tools, marketing automation (from page source and headers)

Setup

The command is already available at .claude/commands/competitor-teardown.md. If you’re setting this up in a different project:

mkdir -p .claude/commands

Then add this content to .claude/commands/competitor-teardown.md:

Run a full competitive intelligence teardown on the business at $ARGUMENTS.

## Step 1: Scrape Key Pages

Use Firecrawl or WebFetch to retrieve and analyze:
- Homepage — positioning, hero messaging, social proof
- Pricing page — plans, price points, feature gating, free tier
- About/team page — company size, funding, mission framing
- Blog — recent topics, publishing frequency, content depth
- Documentation or features page — product capabilities, integrations

## Step 2: Business Analysis

Document findings across these dimensions:
- **Pricing Strategy**: Model type, price points, free tier, annual discounts, enterprise sales
- **Market Positioning**: Target audience, category framing, primary differentiator
- **Product Differentiation**: Unique features, integration ecosystem, comparison pages
- **Content & SEO**: Blog topics, frequency, keyword focus, content formats
- **Social Presence**: Active platforms, follower counts, engagement quality, community
- **Tech Stack**: Detected from page source — frameworks, analytics, marketing tools

## Step 3: SWOT Analysis

Based on findings, produce:
- **Strengths**: What they do well and will be hard to beat
- **Weaknesses**: Gaps, slow areas, poor execution
- **Opportunities**: Underserved segments, missing features, content gaps you can fill
- **Threats**: Where they could hurt your position if they improve

## Step 4: Counter-Positioning

Suggest 3-5 specific positioning moves:
- Messaging angles that exploit their weaknesses
- Content topics where they're absent
- Feature gaps worth highlighting
- Audience segments they're ignoring

## Output

Write to `./competitor-teardown/[competitor-domain].md`
Print SWOT summary and top 3 counter-positioning moves to terminal.

Usage

/project:competitor-teardown https://competitor.com

Claude scrapes the competitor’s key pages, analyzes their business across six dimensions, and writes a full intelligence report with SWOT analysis and counter-positioning recommendations.

Tips

  • Run this for 3-5 competitors and compare the reports to spot market-wide patterns
  • The SWOT section is the most actionable — use it to guide your next quarter’s roadmap
  • Re-run every 3-6 months as competitors ship new features and change pricing