Hire an AI customer task and alternatives reviewer

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• Ranked leads for unmet jobs, each written as a person in a moment
• A visit plan for the top three, with where to go, what to watch for and the first question
• One job written as a situation, with practical, social and emotional sides and the trade-offs
• Every rival for that job, with a short resume and what a customer must give up to choose you
• A grid showing where nobody does the job well

How it does the job well

• Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.
• Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.
• Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.
• Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.

Mistakes it avoids

• Generic copy that could fit any brand.
• Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.
• Calling a test winner before there is enough data.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You can describe your buyers well but cannot say what progress they are trying to make.

• step-01-job-hunting-spot-finder.md. Ranked leads for unmet jobs, a list of hunches with no proof yet, and a visit plan for the top three.
• step-02-job-spec-writer.md. One job written as a situation, with practical, social and emotional sides, trade-offs and who it is not for.
• step-03-job-rival-mapper.md. Every rival for that job, including doing nothing, each with a short resume and what a customer must give up.
• step-04-competitor-white-space-mapper.md. A rating of every rival and you on what the job cares about, showing where nobody is strong.
• HAND-BACK SUMMARY. Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Step 1 has leads with evidence, and hunches kept apart. Step 2 has one job for one circumstance, built on a real struggle from your notes. Step 3 lists doing nothing and homemade fixes as rivals. Step 4 marks every rating without evidence as a guess. If one is missing, the run stopped at that step and says why.
• The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Clayton Christensen and Alex Hormozi would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Searches five places. Your own life, people who buy nothing, workarounds, tasks people avoid and unusual uses. Each lead gets an evidence score and a struggle score.
• Plans the visit. For the top three leads, a place, a time, what to watch for and an opening question.
• Writes the job. One circumstance and one job in the customer's words, split into practical, social and emotional sides. It rejects needs, life themes, customer types and features, and stops when there is no struggle.
• Maps the rivals. Everything the person could reach for, including doing nothing, each with a resume and what must be dropped to choose you.
• Finds the gap. Rates every rival, you included, on what the job cares about and shows where nobody is strong.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id job-statement-rivals only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/job-statement-rivals/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• What you sell and who buys it
• Your question, such as where growth could come from
• Product facts, reviews or support emails (optional)
• Your notes from watching and talking to people, for the second half

Helpful context (optional)

• Reviews, support emails and returns notes, word for word
• Photos or stories of unusual uses of your product
• A list of rivals you already track

Tools and access

• Claude: Holds your leads, your notes and four steps of work in one run.
• A notebook or voice memo: Lets you capture what you see and hear in people's own words while you watch.
• Any good chat AI: Sorting clues into leads and scoring them is text work any strong chat AI does with this skill.
• A notebook: You need to write what you see in people's own words during the visit.
• Any good chat AI: Reading notes and writing a structured spec is text work any strong chat AI does with this skill.
• A voice recorder: Recorded talks let you paste exact words, which this skill depends on.
• Any good chat AI: Listing rivals and writing short resumes is text work any strong chat AI does with this skill.
• A spreadsheet: The rival table is easier to sort and share in a spreadsheet.
• Any good chat AI: Gridding and rating from pasted evidence is text work any strong chat AI can do.
• A spreadsheet: Holds the grid so you can add rivals and rerun.

Functions and deliverables

• Customer task and alternatives reviewer: Share product facts and real customer notes. Get the task buyers need done, options they use instead and gaps to check.
  • Ranked leads for unmet jobs, each written as a person in a moment
  • A visit plan for the top three, with where to go, what to watch for and the first question
  • One job written as a situation, with practical, social and emotional sides and the trade-offs
  • Every rival for that job, with a short resume and what a customer must give up to choose you
  • A grid showing where nobody does the job well
• Unmet customer need researcher: Describe what you sell. Find places to research unmet customer needs and what to observe at each.
  • Leads from five places, each written as a person in a moment
  • An evidence score and a struggle score for each, and a ranking
  • A separate list of hunches that need watching first
  • A visit plan for the top three: where, when, what to watch and the first question
• Customer task definition writer: Turn your customer watch notes into a job spec: one moment, the progress they want, and its practical, social and emotional sides.
  • One circumstance and a one-line job
  • The practical, social and emotional sides, each tied to a note
  • The struggle, the workaround and what it costs
  • The trade-offs people will and will not make
  • The result of the job test and a note on who this job is not for
• Customer alternatives researcher: Find every rival for your customer's job, including doing nothing. Paste your job spec and get a short resume for each rival and what they must drop.
  • At least eight rivals in five groups, including doing nothing
  • A three-line resume and a rating on three sides for each
  • What the customer must fire to choose you
  • A note on the people who do nothing, and why
  • A five-line read and the first rival to study
• Market opportunity finder: Find gaps in your market that no rival serves well. Paste your rivals and what buyers value to get a white space map and a small test.
  • A grid of rivals against the features that decide the choice
  • The gaps nobody serves well, each with evidence
  • Where to stop fighting
  • A small, cheap, reversible test of the best gap
• Brand profile builder: Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.
  • A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log
  • A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned
  • A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it
  • A short slice for your next step, if you name one
• Clayton Christensen: Explore why customers buy using Clayton Christensen’s recorded approach. Start with a real situation, the struggle and what the buyer used before.
  • Your problem worked on the way Clayton Christensen would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Clayton Christensen's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Alex Hormozi: Improve an offer, price or lead plan using Alex Hormozi’s recorded frameworks. Check buyer needs, costs and honest promises before adding more leads.
  • Your problem worked on the way Alex Hormozi would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Alex Hormozi's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You can describe your buyers well but cannot say what progress they are trying to make.
• You compare yourself with the usual competitors and sales still surprise you.
• You feel growth is stuck and want to find who you are not serving.

Limits to check before starting

• You have no buyers to watch or talk to yet: run a plain customer survey first, then come back.
• You want to know who your best buyers are: use the Best customer finder.
• You want to know what puts buyers off: use the Customer objection coverage checker.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md plus one skill file for each step.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Describe what you sell and who buys it. It runs the first step and stops.
• Go and watch the top leads. Write what you see in people's own words, with where and when.
• Bring the notes back and say "carry on from step 2".

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/job-statement-rivals for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.