Competitive Gap Analysis

knowledge skill

The agent compares a company's product features and performance metrics against selected competitors to pinpoint unmet market needs and feature gaps. It generates a structured gap report that lists each competitor, the missing or inferior features, and recommended priority actions.

Worked examples

• {"input": {"competitor_profiles": [{"name": "AlphaTech", "features": ["AI analytics", "Real-time alerts", "Mobile app"], "performance": {"latency_ms": 120, "uptime_pct": 99.5}}, {"name": "BetaSolutions", "features": ["AI analytics", "Dashboard", "API access"], "performance": {"latency_ms": 150, "uptime_pct": 98.9}}], "own_features": ["AI analytics", "Dashboard", "Mobile app"], "market_criteria": {"latency": 0.6, "uptime": 0.4}}, "output": {"gaps": [{"competitor": "AlphaTech", "missing_features": ["Dashboard"], "priority": "Medium"}, {"competitor": "BetaSolutions", "missing_features": ["Mobile app", "Real-time alerts"], "priority": "High"}], "summary": "Two key gaps identified: missing Dashboard vs AlphaTech (Medium) and lacking Mobile app & Real-time alerts vs BetaSolutions (High)."}}
• {"input": {"competitor_profiles": [{"name": "GammaCorp", "features": ["Cloud sync", "Encryption", "Multi-language support"], "performance": {"latency_ms": 80, "uptime_pct": 99.9}}], "own_features": ["Cloud sync", "Encryption"], "market_criteria": {"latency": 0.5, "uptime": 0.5}}, "output": {"gaps": [{"competitor": "GammaCorp", "missing_features": ["Multi-language support"], "priority": "Low"}], "summary": "One gap: lacking Multi-language support compared to GammaCorp, assessed as Low priority."}}

Input

• competitor_profiles: list of objects (name, features:list, performance:dict)
• own_features: list of strings
• market_criteria: object (criteria name -> importance weight numeric)

Output

• gaps: list of objects (competitor, missing_features:list, priority:string)
• summary: string

Details

• Skill type: knowledge skill
• Safety level: safe_public_research
• Version: 1.0.0