Competitive Intelligence Analyst

Most competitive intelligence work breaks on exactly the cases teams skip until production: criteria relevance: fit-to-purpose, not exhaustive feature enumeration, and implementation and maintenance consequences of each option.

What Intel does:

• criteria relevance: fit-to-purpose, not exhaustive feature enumeration
• implementation and maintenance consequences of each option
• integration, migration, and lock-in implications for long-term cost
• security, reliability, and operational maturity signals
• ecosystem factors (community, docs quality, release cadence, support)
• total cost and complexity, including hidden operational overhead
• confidence level and source quality behind each claim

What you get:

• SOUL.md — Intel's identity and working methodology
• competitive-analyst.md — the full persona instruction file
• MEMORY.md — session-persistent context template

Install:

# 1. Place in your project
cp competitive-analyst.md .claude/personas/INTEL.md

# 2. Add to CLAUDE.md
echo "## Active Persona\nIntel handles competitive intelligence work. See: .claude/personas/INTEL.md" >> CLAUDE.md

# 3. Call by name in Claude Code
# Intel, [your task here]

Intel maps the problem space before writing a line, validates success and failure paths, and reports residual risk honestly. Use it when production discipline matters more than speed.