competitor-analysis
The competitor-analysis skill delivers a comprehensive competitive intelligence report across SEO, content, paid advertising, social media, AI visibility, pricing, and positioning. Use it when evaluating 2-5 competitors to identify strategic gaps, benchmark performance metrics, analyze content and keyword strategies, track paid media tactics, and inform positioning decisions for competitive advantage.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/indranilbanerjee/digital-marketing-pro /tmp/competitor-analysis && cp -r /tmp/competitor-analysis/skills/competitor-analysis ~/.claude/skills/competitor-analysisSKILL.md
# /digital-marketing-pro:competitor-analysis
## Purpose
Deliver a comprehensive competitive intelligence report across all major marketing dimensions. Identify competitor strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and gaps the brand can exploit.
## Input Required
The user must provide (or will be prompted for):
- **Competitors**: 2-5 competitor names and/or URLs
- **Analysis scope**: Full analysis or specific dimensions (SEO, content, ads, social, pricing)
- **Key battleground keywords**: Terms where the brand competes head-to-head
- **Industry/category**: For contextual benchmarking
## Process
1. **Load brand context**: Read `~/.claude-marketing/brands/_active-brand.json` for the active slug, then load `~/.claude-marketing/brands/{slug}/profile.json`. Apply brand voice, compliance rules for target markets (`skills/context-engine/compliance-rules.md`), and industry context. **Also check for guidelines** at `~/.claude-marketing/brands/{slug}/guidelines/_manifest.json` — if present, load restrictions and relevant category files. Check for custom templates at `~/.claude-marketing/brands/{slug}/templates/`. Check for agency SOPs at `~/.claude-marketing/sops/`. If no brand exists, ask: "Set up a brand first (/digital-marketing-pro:brand-setup)?" — or proceed with defaults.
2. **Content analysis**: Content types, publishing frequency, top-performing content, content gaps, topic authority
3. **SEO analysis**: Domain authority, keyword overlap, ranking gaps, backlink comparison, technical health
4. **Paid advertising**: Ad copy themes, landing page strategies, estimated spend, platform focus
5. **Social media**: Platform presence, follower growth, engagement rates, content mix, posting cadence
6. **AI visibility**: How competitors appear in AI answer engines versus the brand
7. **Pricing and positioning**: Pricing models, value proposition, messaging frameworks, market positioning
8. Synthesize findings into strategic opportunities and threats
9. Generate actionable recommendations for competitive advantage
## Output
A structured competitive analysis containing:
- Competitor overview matrix with key metrics per competitor
- Content strategy comparison with gap analysis
- SEO competitive landscape with keyword and link opportunities
- Paid media intelligence with creative and targeting insights
- Social media benchmarking with engagement analysis
- AI visibility comparison across platforms
- Pricing and positioning map
- SWOT summary per competitor
- Strategic recommendations prioritized by opportunity size
## Agents Used
- **competitive-intel** — All competitive dimensions, benchmarking, gap analysis, and strategic recommendationsDesign a statistically rigorous A/B or multivariate test plan — If/Then/Because hypothesis, control and variant specs, required sample size per variant (absolute vs relative MDE via sample-size-calculator.py), test duration, guardrail metrics, stopping rules, and go/no-go decision criteria. Triggers on \"/digital-marketing-pro:ab-test-plan\", \"set up an A/B test\", \"how long should my test run\", \"calculate sample size for an experiment\", \"is this test result significant\". Reads the brand profile and past campaign-tracker results to avoid re-testing validated hypotheses; finished tests are evaluated with significance-tester.py by the cro-specialist agent.
Generate 3-5 ad copy variations per platform — headlines, descriptions, and CTAs formatted to Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, and Pinterest specs — each scored 1-10 with policy-compliance flags, A/B testing groupings, and a message-match check against the landing page. Triggers on \"/digital-marketing-pro:ad-creative\", \"write ad copy for Meta\", \"give me RSA headline variations\", \"we need LinkedIn ad copy\", \"draft TikTok ad creative\". Reads the brand profile, guidelines, and compliance rules; routes video ad scripts to /digital-marketing-pro:video-script and gates AI-generated visuals for EU campaigns through /digital-marketing-pro:c2pa-metadata and /digital-marketing-pro:check.
Walk through adding a custom MCP server integration to the plugin — searches npm for an existing MCP package (or scaffolds a custom server from the plugin's guide), generates the exact .mcp.json entry, sets up environment-variable credentials, tests connectivity, and documents the tools the new server exposes. Triggers on \"/digital-marketing-pro:add-integration\", \"connect Ahrefs to the plugin\", \"add a new MCP server\", \"integrate our internal API\", \"hook up Stripe data\". Reads the brand profile and agency credential profiles at ~/.claude-marketing/credentials/ to map client-specific keys; custom builds follow skills/context-engine/custom-mcp-guide.md.
Audit how a brand appears across the 6 canonical AI answer surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot — probing 10-25 queries into a numbered output bundle with per-platform visibility scorecards, citation-accuracy checks, a competitor matrix, content gaps, and an optimization playbook behind a four-gate quality scorecard. Triggers on \"/digital-marketing-pro:aeo-audit\", \"does ChatGPT know about our brand\", \"check our AI search visibility\", \"how does Perplexity describe us\", \"are we showing up in AI Overviews\". Reads the brand profile; reconciles probes against GSC actuals via /digital-marketing-pro:gsc-ai-performance and defines the AI-visibility scoring standard reused by geo-monitor and share-of-voice.
Strategy module for Answer Engine / Generative Engine Optimization — audits AI visibility, restructures content for citation, runs entity-consistency checks across Knowledge Graph, Wikidata, Wikipedia, Crunchbase, and LinkedIn, and produces JSON-LD schema specs, monitoring frameworks, and a 90-day LLM content strategy. Triggers on \"/digital-marketing-pro:aeo-geo\", \"how do we get cited by AI\", \"optimize for AI Overviews\", \"fix our entity consistency\", \"do we need llms.txt\". Reads the brand profile, compliance rules, and industry benchmarks; its measurement counterpart is /digital-marketing-pro:aeo-audit, with GSC actuals via /digital-marketing-pro:gsc-ai-performance.
Generate a portfolio-level dashboard across ALL client brands — per-client RAG health scores, campaign activity, budget pacing, aggregate KPIs, team utilization, pending approvals, upcoming deadlines, and an alerts panel — built for agency standups and weekly reviews. Triggers on \"/digital-marketing-pro:agency-dashboard\", \"how are all our clients doing\", \"portfolio health check\", \"budget pacing across accounts\", \"which accounts are at risk\". Enumerates every brand under ~/.claude-marketing/brands/ and pulls data via campaign-tracker.py, execution-tracker.py, and team-manager.py; drill into a single client with /digital-marketing-pro:performance-report or /digital-marketing-pro:client-report.
Invoke when the user needs to manage multiple client brands, view portfolio-level dashboards, generate client reports, manage SOPs, switch credential profiles, assign team tasks, configure regions, or generate executive summaries. Triggers on requests involving multi-client management, agency workflows, client onboarding, or portfolio oversight.
Invoke when the user needs help with marketing measurement, KPI definition, dashboard design, attribution reporting, performance analysis, competitive benchmarking, or translating data into marketing decisions. Triggers on requests involving metrics, reporting, analytics setup, or data interpretation.