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 50 — Voice & Tone
> **Frameworks:** Brand voice spectrum (formal ↔ casual, serious ↔ playful,
> distant ↔ warm, conventional ↔ irreverent) · Content-type tone matrix
>
> **Goal:** Codify the brand's verbal register precisely enough that two different
> writers produce copy that sounds like the same person. Voice is constant;
> tone shifts by context (home page vs. error message vs. proposal cover).
---
## Raw
<!-- Verbatim quotes and examples from the interview.
Collect actual copy samples the founder likes or hates. -->
### Copy the founder admires (from their own brand or others) — include the source
### Copy the founder dislikes or finds "wrong register" — what specifically is wrong?
### Words or phrases the brand uses all the time (even informally)
### Words or phrases the brand actively avoids
### How should the brand sound on: a sales page? an error message? a proposal?
### "We always…" / "We never…" statements about how the brand communicates
---
## Synthesis
### Voice spectrum (mark the brand's position on each axis)
| Axis | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal ←→ Casual | | | | | | |
| Serious ←→ Playful | | | | | | |
| Distant ←→ Warm | | | | | | |
| Conventional ←→ Irreverent | | | | | | |
| Minimal ←→ Expressive | | | | | | |
### Voice statement (one paragraph a writer can internalise)
### Tone matrix by content type
| Content type | Tone shift | Example phrase |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage headline | | |
| Case study / evidence | | |
| Proposal / commercial | | |
| Error / apology | | |
| Social / informal | | |
### The three things to check every draft against
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### Open questions / tensions with Module 40 Personality