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 60 — Narrative / Story

Frameworks: Neumeier trueline · Brand story arc (context → conflict → resolution → invitation) · Hero's journey (brand as guide, client as hero)

Goal: Crystallise the brand's founding story and its narrative arc — the conflict it was built to resolve, the transformation it delivers, and the invitation it extends to clients. The trueline is the single sentence that holds every story the brand tells.


Raw

The founding story (what happened, when, why this — not the polished version)

The conflict or frustration that made the brand necessary

What the world looks like when the brand's work succeeds (the transformation)

A client story that best illustrates what the brand does and why it matters

What would be lost if the brand didn't exist? (brand obituary prompt)

The invitation: what does the brand ask clients to do or believe?


Synthesis

Trueline draft (Neumeier: "[Brand] is the only [category] that [unique claim].")

Alternative truelines (23 variations, vary level of abstraction)

Brand story arc

Beat Content
Context (the world before)
Conflict (what's broken / wrong)
Resolution (what the brand does about it)
Invitation (what the client is asked to do)

The brand as guide (not hero) — what the client achieves, not the brand

Open questions / tensions with Module 20 Positioning and Module 10 Why