- Founders and executives who want a “live radar” of market threats
- Sales teams that need battlecards for handling objections
- Small teams without an established competitor research system
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Build a Competitor Database With Claude Cowork
This guide shows you how to set up a competitor intelligence database powered by Claude Cowork.
Introduction
This guide shows you how to set up a competitor intelligence database powered by Claude Cowork. You will download the prompt files, point Claude at the folder, and have Claude structure the system for you. The source notes that the setup can be ready to use in about 5 minutes.
Before running your first analysis, create a small Context.md file that describes your own company and offer so Claude understands who “we” are when identifying threats.
Step-by-step 4 steps
Instructions
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Step 1 of 4 Set up the competitor teardowns folder
Create a new folder named “competitor_teardowns.” Download the prompt kit; it should include six Markdown files. Drop all six files into your new folder.
Open the Claude Desktop app, click the Cowork tab, then click the folder button and select your new folder.
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Step 2 of 4 Run a killsheet analysis
Once the system is built, run a competitor analysis. The guide calls this a “killsheet”: a forensic business analysis of your competitors. The source recommends using the latest Opus model for this analysis.
Use this when you are doing a quarterly review, reacting to new competitor funding news, or reviewing the loss of a major deal.
- Identify the competitor name and URL.
- Send Claude the prompt below, replacing the bracketed placeholders with your competitor details.
Start an analysis on [competitor] using [competitor domain] [any extra competitor domains]💡 Pro Tip: Before running your first analysis, create a small text file called Context.md describing your own company and offer. This helps Claude understand who “we” are when identifying threats. You can even dictate this into Claude to have it write the file for you.
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Step 3 of 4 Review your results
Open your competitor_teardowns folder in a code editor like Cursor. You should see a new competitor folder inside 01_Competitors, complete with a dated killsheet.
Each time you run a killsheet analysis, Claude will update your Competitive Radar document. This becomes your at-a-glance competitor overview.
💡 Pro Tip: You can tell Claude to convert any report into a PDF, or to update its SOP to do so automatically.
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Step 4 of 4 Create follow-up sales and marketing assets
After you have your killsheet, use the included prompts to create sales and marketing assets.
- For sales, run Prompt_03_Battlecard_Generator.md to create scripts for your sales team based on competitor objections.
- For marketing, run Prompt_04_Comparison_Page.md to have Claude mock up a landing page comparing you and a competitor, or competitor versus competitor.
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Background and context
Who This Is Useful For
What You Will Build
You will build a reusable competitor teardown workspace that Claude can update as you run analyses. The workspace produces competitor folders, dated killsheets, and an updated Competitive Radar document, with follow-up prompts for sales battlecards and comparison-page mockups.
- A competitor_teardowns folder structured from the SOP
- A competitor folder inside 01_Competitors
- A dated killsheet for each analyzed competitor
- An updated Competitive Radar document
- Optional follow-up sales battlecards and comparison-page drafts
What You Need
- Claude Desktop app, which the source notes only works on Mac
- The attached prompt kit
- A text editor to view your database
Going Further
- After generating killsheets, you can ask Claude to convert reports into PDFs or update the SOP to do that automatically. You can also drop updated killsheets into NotebookLM to generate quarterly competitor intelligence reports, including slide decks or podcasts.