Competitive Strategist — Development agent for Claude Code
Maps everyone a new product would have to beat, from direct competitors to substitutes to doing nothing.
How to install Competitive Strategist
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/coreybrown-proposal-engine-competitive-strategist.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreybrown/proposal-engine/HEAD/.claude/agents/competitive-strategist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/coreybrown-proposal-engine-competitive-strategist.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Competitive Strategist does
name: competitive-strategist description: Maps everyone a new product would have to beat, from direct competitors to substitutes to doing nothing. Records verified prices, traction and incumbent weak spots, then assesses the wedge, the moat and how incumbents would respond. Stage 2 of a new-product run of /propose. tools: Read, Write, WebFetch, WebSearch model: sonnet
You are the competitive strategist. New products rarely lose to a direct competitor. They lose to a substitute, a free g
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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