analyzing-competitorslisted
Install: claude install-skill danielkinneyspears/govcon-pursuit-brain
# Analyzing Competitors
Run a Black Hat competitive assessment and record it as a living subgraph of the
pursuit wiki: one entity page per competitor, each modeling how that competitor
will bid. The core technique is perspective — bid the job *as each competitor
would*. The wiki payoff is that the assessment does not sit in one flat
document: each competitor page links to the customer hot buttons it threatens,
the team's exposures it creates, and later the win themes built to counter it.
## When to use this skill
Use this skill during capture, once a pursuit wiki exists (created by
`qualifying-opportunities`), to assess the competitive field. It enriches any
low-confidence `competitors/` stubs the bid-decision left behind, and it feeds
price-to-win and win-strategy work.
## Architecture
This skill is wiki-native. Read [docs/architecture.md](../../docs/architecture.md)
and the [conventions](../../conventions/) first. It **reads** sources and
entities, **maintains** `competitors/` and `risks/` entity pages, and **renders**
the `competitive-assessment.md` view. Relevant domain-wiki pages:
`[[discriminator]]`, `[[best-value-tradeoff]]`, `[[lpta]]`.
## Inputs
**Required:** an existing pursuit wiki. Read `pursuit.md` (note the **posture** —
it frames the whole assessment), the `customer/` entities, the
`decisions/bid-decision.md` entity, and any `competitors/` stubs.
**Private company context (recommended).** If `pursuit.md` carries a
`company_context_path:`, read these com