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 20 — Positioning
> **Frameworks:** Dunford *Obviously Awesome* · Moore crossing-the-chasm template ·
> Jobs-to-be-done lens
>
> **Goal:** Define the brand's competitive frame — who it's for, what category it
> competes in, what it does uniquely, and why that matters to the target client.
> Output is the raw material for a positioning statement the brand can act on.
---
## Raw
<!-- Verbatim quotes and examples. Record exact language. -->
### Who is the target client? (role, company type, situation)
### What category does the brand compete in? (how clients currently solve this problem)
### What makes the brand different from alternatives in that category?
### What does the target client care about most? (the value they get that others can't match)
### Competitive alternatives named by the founder (include "do nothing" / "hire in-house")
### Phrases or metaphors the founder uses naturally to describe what they do
---
## Synthesis
### Positioning statement draft (Dunford template)
> For **[target client]** who **[situation / JTBD]**, **[brand name]** is the
> **[category]** that **[unique value]**. Unlike **[alternatives]**, we
> **[key differentiator]**.
### Alternative framings (vary the category or the differentiator)
1.
2.
### White-space hypothesis (what no competitor is claiming that this brand could own)
### Open questions / ambiguities
### Tensions with Module 10 Why (flag any contradictions for Module 90 reconciliation)