Eryk Orłowski fe37e5426a feat(skills): add brand-discovery and competitive benchmarking pipeline
Adds four community skills covering brand identity discovery and a
three-skill competitive benchmarking pipeline.

**brand-discovery** — Adaptive multi-session brand identity interview
spanning 8 modules (purpose, positioning, audience, personality, voice,
narrative, founder-brand tension, synthesis). Uses laddering, 5 Whys,
and projective techniques. State persisted to disk via state.json so
sessions resume across conversations without losing elicited knowledge.
Frameworks: Sinek, Dunford, Baker, Enns, Kapferer, Aaker, Neumeier,
Mark & Pearson, Lencioni. Includes 8 module output templates in
references/.

**competitive-platform-analysis** — Scopes and tiers a competitor set
before benchmarking begins. Categorizes candidates along 8 generic
creative-industry axes (positioning stance, specialization, size/model,
engagement format, distinctiveness posture, evidence model, brand
strength, market/reach) into Direct / Adjacent / Aspirational tiers.
Includes a pre-filter scoring matrix. First step in the pipeline.

**benchmark-methodology** — Scores each competitor across 9 weighted
dimensions (positioning 18%, brand voice 15%, visual craft 15%, offer
packaging 12%, evidence 12%, enterprise-readiness 10%, thought
leadership 8%, pricing 5%, client's strategic tension 5%) with explicit
1–5 rubrics and bias controls. Produces one profile card per competitor.

**competitive-report-structure** — Assembles scored cards into a
decision-grade report: executive summary, landscape map, competitor
tiers, heatmap matrix, deep dives, white-space and threats, strategic
recommendations, sources appendix.

brand-discovery complements brand-voice (ECC): brand-voice extracts a
style profile from existing source material; brand-discovery elicits
identity from scratch through structured interviews when no prior
material exists.

A competitive set scoped without the client's positioning brief is
noise, not intelligence — each skill enforces this by requiring the
brief before proceeding. The 9-dimension scoring framework deliberately
reports the client's strategic tension as two separate poles (never
averaged) because the gap between them is the strategic finding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 21:57:55 +02:00

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Module 30 — Audience & Niche

Frameworks: Baker The Business of Expertise · Ideal Client Profile (ICP) · Pain / trigger / desired outcome lens

Goal: Make the target audience concrete enough to brief a copywriter or run a paid campaign — not a demographic sketch, but a psychographic and situational portrait of the best client the brand wants more of.


Raw

Who is the ideal client? (describe a specific person, not a segment)

What situation or trigger brings them to look for help?

What have they tried before and why did it fall short?

What does success look like to them? (in their words, not the brand's)

What do they fear or want to avoid?

Worst-fit clients (who the brand doesn't want to work with, and why)

Quotes or stories from real past clients that illustrate the ideal fit


Synthesis

Ideal Client Profile (ICP)

Dimension Description
Role / title
Organisation type & size
Trigger situation
Primary pain
Desired outcome
Budget signal
Red-flag / disqualifier

Psychographic portrait (23 sentences: how this person thinks, what they value, what they distrust)

Niche hypothesis (the smallest viable market the brand could credibly own)

Audience segments to test (if there is ambiguity about primary vs secondary ICP)

Open questions / threads for Module 20 positioning reconciliation