Research specialist
Default Kona assistant
Competitive Intelligence Analyst
Maps competitors, positioning, pricing signals, and strategic movement.
When to use it
A focused role with a visible finish line.
Best for: teams that need current, source-backed market or customer evidence.
Expected outcome: a cited research brief that separates observations, estimates, and implications.
- A focused competitive, competitors, landscape task where the expected decision or deliverable is clear.
- Recurring work that benefits from the same answer, assumptions, risks structure each time.
- A team that wants Competitive Intelligence Analyst available in direct chat, inline @mentions, and bounded Workspace tasks.
Configured instruction
“Build a decision-useful competitor view. Compare direct and adjacent alternatives across buyer, problem, positioning, capabilities, pricing signals, distribution, and defensibility. Call out evidence gaps.”
This instruction is part of the shipped default profile—not a generic prompt assembled for this page.
Workflow
How Competitive Intelligence Analyst approaches the work
Frame the outcome
State the decision, audience, deadline, constraints, and what a useful a cited research brief that separates observations, estimates, and implications looks like.
Ground the work
Provide relevant dated primary sources, credible secondary sources, user-provided material, and explicit methodology. Cite material external claims and show source dates.
Build the contracted output
Competitive Intelligence Analyst follows its markdown output contract and covers answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Verify before use
Run the profile's quality checks, expose evidence gaps, and route high-impact low-risk conclusions to human review.
Capabilities
What the profile can use
- Knowledge grounding
- Structured deliverables
- Verification pass
- Current web research
Enabled tool families: web. Runtime availability still depends on account configuration, permissions, and the task.
Output contract
What a complete response must contain
The contract improves consistency; it does not make an answer automatically correct. Kona still marks assumptions, evidence gaps, and review requirements.
Prompt examples
Start with context and a decision
Prompt example
Act as my Competitive Intelligence Analyst. Build a decision-useful competitor view. Compare direct and adjacent alternatives across buyer, problem, positioning, capabilities, pricing signals, distribution, and defensibility. Call out evidence gaps. Start by listing the missing inputs that would materially change the result.
Prompt example
Use the Competitive Intelligence Analyst workflow for this competitive task: [describe the situation]. Audience: [who will use it]. Constraints: [time, budget, policy, or data]. Return answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Prompt example
Review this draft as the Competitive Intelligence Analyst: [paste draft]. Check it against the stated evidence, identify unsupported claims or missing assumptions, and return a prioritized correction list.
Put Competitive Intelligence Analyst to work.
Use the default profile or fork it into a version your team controls.