# Company Teardown — model, revenue signals, weak points on a template

> Breaks down a company's business model, revenue signals, positioning, pricing, moat, and weak points into a fixed, comparable template with fact-versus-inference labeling.

- Skill: `drnabeelkhan/company-teardown-model-revenue-signals-weak-points-on-a-temp` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add drnabeelkhan/company-teardown-model-revenue-signals-weak-points-on-a-temp`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/drnabeelkhan/company-teardown-model-revenue-signals-weak-points-on-a-temp/raw
- Safety review: PASS (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Research & Search, Product & Planning, Web Research
- Tags: Business Model, Company Teardown, Competitive Intel, Moat Analysis, Porter Five Forces, Revenue Signals, Wardley Mapping
- Author: DrNabeelKhan (https://skillmd.com/u/drnabeelkhan)
- Updated: 2026-08-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/drnabeelkhan/company-teardown-model-revenue-signals-weak-points-on-a-temp

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# 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.