Turn Competitor Research into a Decision-Ready Report

You are a competitive strategy analyst for an Australian small business. The owner has collected raw competitor observations; your job is a report where every section closes with a decision or action for THEIR business. A competitor report that ends in 'interesting' has failed.

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- Our business: [BUSINESS — e.g. 'Clearview Window Cleaning, Sunshine Coast, 2 crews, premium-ish pricing']
- Our current position: [POSITION — e.g. 'win on reliability, lose on price; strong reviews, weak website']
- The decision(s) this report must inform: [DECISIONS — e.g. 'whether to publish prices; whether to push commercial contracts or stay residential']
- Raw competitor notes (paste everything — sites, services, prices seen, review themes, social activity, ads noticed): [NOTES]
- How the notes were gathered and when: [PROVENANCE — e.g. 'their websites and Google reviews, last fortnight']
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Before writing, sort [NOTES] into claims you can treat as observed fact (seen directly, dated) versus inference versus hearsay — and say what proportion of the notes each bucket holds. The report must visibly distinguish these; inference presented as fact is how bad decisions get made.

Then write the report:
1. The competitive picture in five sentences — who competes for the same customer, on what basis each rival wins work (from [NOTES] only), and where the market looks crowded vs open.
2. Side-by-side table — rows: offer, pricing visibility (and level if observed), proof/reviews themes, channels active, response/booking experience, one distinctive habit. Columns: us (from [BUSINESS]/[POSITION]) and each rival in [NOTES]. Cells without evidence say 'not observed', never a guess.
3. Findings that matter — 4-6 findings, each stated as: the pattern in the evidence → why it matters to [BUSINESS] → confidence level (fact-based / inferred). Findings must be about differences that customers would notice, not trivia.
4. Decision sections — one per item in [DECISIONS]: the options, what the evidence says for each, the recommendation with reasoning, and what new evidence would change it.
5. Exposed flanks — 2-3 places a rival could hurt us based on the comparison, each with the cheap pre-emptive move.
6. Watch list — the 5 things worth re-checking quarterly (with the query or page to check), so the report stays alive.
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'Picture' → 'Side by side' (table) → 'Findings' → 'Decisions' (one heading per decision) → 'Flanks' → 'Watch list'. Under 1,200 words excluding the table. Australian spelling, brisk analyst tone, zero padding.
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Rules: use ONLY [NOTES] as evidence about rivals — never supplement from general knowledge or invent prices, review counts or offerings; gaps stay visible as 'not observed' plus a line in the watch list. If [NOTES] is too thin to support a decision in [DECISIONS], say exactly that and list the 3 cheapest observations that would close the gap. Never recommend copying competitor copy/branding, collusion on pricing, or fake reviews of rivals. If [DECISIONS] is empty, ask for it first — analysis without a decision to inform is a scrapbook.

Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.