competitive-platform-analysis

Topics in the source

• Competitive Platform Analysis
• When to Activate
• Client positioning brief (establish first)
• Selection criteria
• Player taxonomy — axes to populate across
• Competitive tiers (how the set resolves)
• Data sources (where to look)
• Scoring matrix template (selection stage)

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. 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. 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 b

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