Hire an AI competitor launch-readiness reviewer

Everything it can hand back

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

• A side-by-side of you and the rival on five factors, with the reason for each
• A ranked list of your options, with where to fight and where to stay away
• A go, wait or no verdict, with the one reason that decided it
• The six faults and three checks it rests on, and a fix for each fault

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 are about to launch a product or offer into a market where a stronger rival already sells.

• Rival matchup (step 1 file). You and the rival scored on five factors, ranked options, where they are thin and the cost of a long fight.
• Go or no-go check (step 2 file). Six faults and three readiness checks run on your plan, ending in a go, wait or no verdict with its reason.
• 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

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed 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 Sun Tzu and Al Ries would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Score the matchup. Scores you and the rival on five factors, ranks your options and finds where the rival is thin. Prices the cost and length of a long fight.
• Check the plan. Takes the matchup and your plan and checks it for six common faults. Then checks that your team is ready, the rival is open and the ground allows it. Ends with a go, wait or no verdict.

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 rival-go-no-go 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/rival-go-no-go/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

• Your plan or move, in a few sentences
• What you know about the rival, such as who they are, how they sell, their strengths and weak spots
• Your own situation, covering team, budget and timing
• Other rivals in the market (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• The rival's pricing page and reviews
• Their job ads, which show where they are growing
• Your own recent results

Tools and access

• Any good chat AI: Weighs both sides and runs both checks in one conversation.
• Meta Ad Library: Shows the rival's live ads for free, a good source of facts about how they sell.
• Any good chat AI: Comparing two sides against fixed factors is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• Any good chat AI: Checking a plan against a fixed list of faults is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.

Functions and deliverables

• Competitor launch-readiness reviewer: Share your plan and sourced facts about both businesses. Get a five-factor comparison, weak spots and a launch-readiness recommendation.
  • A side-by-side of you and the rival on five factors, with the reason for each
  • A ranked list of your options, with where to fight and where to stay away
  • A go, wait or no verdict, with the one reason that decided it
  • The six faults and three checks it rests on, and a fix for each fault
• Competitor comparison reviewer: Compare you and a rival on five factors and see where to fight and where to stay out. A rival matchup scorer with ranked options.
  • Both sides scored 1 to 5 on five factors, with the evidence for each
  • Your options ranked from cheapest to costliest, with the best one marked
  • Where the rival is thin or unready, and where to stay out
  • The cost and length of a long contest, and a position to hold first
• Go or no-go launch checker: Check a launch plan against six faults and three readiness checks. Get a go, wait or no verdict and a fix list before you spend.
  • Each of six faults marked present, absent or missing, with a reason from your plan
  • Three halfway checks answered yes, no or missing
  • One verdict, go, wait or no, with the single reason that decided it
  • A fix list for each fault found, and what would turn a wait into a go
• Competitor product review writer: Write a competitor product review: give it a rival product and its market, and get strengths, weak points, missed chances and trends.
  • A survey of the range
  • Strengths and weak points, each with evidence
  • Missed chances and trends, labelled as seen, inferred or trend
  • A compact study and the chances your side could use
• 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
• Sun Tzu: Plan a competitive move using The Art of War. Compare both sides, check costs and ask whether a fight can be avoided.
  • Your problem worked on the way Sun Tzu would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Sun Tzu's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Al Ries: Clarify what a brand should stand for using Al Ries’s recorded approach. Examine its category, focus, name and launch story.
  • Your problem worked on the way Al Ries would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Al Ries'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 are about to launch a product or offer into a market where a stronger rival already sells.
• A rival has just cut prices or copied your best idea and you need to decide how to answer.
• You are choosing between going head to head with a rival and finding a corner they ignore.

Limits to check before starting

• You have no facts on the rival yet: gather their pricing, reviews and ads first, then come back.
• Your choice is about pricing alone: use the Competitive advantage tester or work it out with a simple margin sheet.
• You want to check whether your business can grow fast: use the Rapid growth readiness reviewer.

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 pack. It holds HANDOFF.md and two skill files, in the order they run: Rival matchup scorer, then Go or no-go launch checker.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Describe your plan, your side and the rival. Be honest about your weak spots.
• It works step by step and saves each result. Read the matchup before the go or no-go.
• If the answer is wait or no, use the "opening to wait for" in step 1 to decide when to look again.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/rival-go-no-go 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.