# Competitor Scan

> Profile a handful of competitors and surface where you can win, in one comparison table.

- Skill: `tinyhumansai/competitor-scan` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tinyhumansai/competitor-scan`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tinyhumansai/competitor-scan/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: tinyhumansai (https://skillmd.com/u/tinyhumansai)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tinyhumansai/competitor-scan

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# Competitor Scan

Build a current picture of the competitive field and turn it into a short list
of openings you can act on.

## When to use

- Before a launch, pitch, or pricing change.
- A new rival appears and you need to understand the threat quickly.

## Steps

1. **Pick** the three to five competitors that actually matter to this decision.
2. **Find** their pages with `web_search` — pricing, product and newsroom pages
   are usually one search each. Each search spends the company's capped daily
   search budget, so search per competitor, not per question.
3. **Gather** positioning, pricing, features and recent moves by reading those
   pages with `web_fetch`. Snippets are previews; a pricing claim needs the page.
4. **Compare** on the axes your buyers care about, not every feature.
5. **Find gaps** — where they are weak, silent, or overpriced.
6. **Recommend** two or three openings ranked by how winnable they are.

## If search is unavailable

`web_search` may be absent (not granted for this company) or refuse because the
daily budget is spent. Then: say so in the deliverable, work only from URLs the
operator gave you, and mark every axis you could not verify as unknown.
**Never invent a competitor's price, feature or funding event, and never write a
URL you have not seen returned by a tool.** A table with honest gaps is usable;
a table with plausible fabrications is not.

## Output

A one-page comparison table plus a short "where we win" note listing the ranked
openings and the evidence behind each. Every factual cell carries the URL it
came from.