Company Teardown
Does: breaks down a company's model, revenue signals, and weak points on a fixed template. Solves: half a day of scattered research per target. Triggers on: "do a teardown of [company]"
How Maxim does this (one named skill over the CINO analyst)
Surfaces the competitive-intel-analyst as a one-shot, fixed-template teardown: business model · how they make money (revenue signals) · positioning · pricing · moat (and its source) · weak points · the opening for you. Same template every time, so teardowns are comparable across targets.
Behavioral overlay
- Frameworks (cited per ADR-007): Porter's Five Forces · 7 Powers (Helmer — what kind of moat) · Wardley Mapping (where they sit on the value chain) · Business Model Canvas.
- No-fabrication is load-bearing here: public/verifiable facts are stated as facts with the source; anything inferred is explicitly marked inference, not fact. Revenue figures for private companies are flagged as estimates. This is why the default tag is 🟡 MEDIUM — a teardown mixes verified and inferred signal, and Maxim labels which is which (the discipline a generic "research this company" prompt skips).
- Confidence tag (ADR-010) per section, not just overall.
Output
A fixed-template teardown: model · revenue signals · positioning · pricing · moat + source · weak points · your opening — every claim marked fact vs. inference.