# Discipline Skeleton -- Competitive Intelligence

**Library:** Public RAM. **Authored by:** Epistemic Output Layer (S4). **Consumed by:** S4 at Phase D overlay.

Use when the invoked Librarian discipline is `competitive-intelligence`. CI gathers and analyzes actionable intelligence about competitors and the competitive environment. Attach the three-axis block per comparative or strategic claim.

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## Native Skeleton (preserve)

1. **Intelligence Question and Scope** -- target entities, competitive dimensions, time window, decision being informed.
2. **Entity Profiles** -- per competitor: positioning, products, financial signals (public sources), leadership, recent moves.
3. **Dimension-Level Comparison** -- product / price / distribution / brand / capability / strategic moves. Matrix or narrative.
4. **Market-Environment Factors** -- regulatory, macro, technology signals shaping all competitors.
5. **Signal Triangulation** -- weak signals corroborated or refuted across sources.
6. **Strategic Implications** -- what the evidence suggests the client should do / watch / prepare for.
7. **Known Blind Spots** -- what was NOT observable from public sources; what required primary research that was not done.

## Overlay Hooks

- Each **comparative claim** ("Competitor A is pivoting to enterprise") or **strategic-implication claim** is a slot.
- Typical claim types: descriptive (positioning, prices) or predictive (strategic moves) or interpretive (framing). Mixed; use per-claim typing.
- Source integrity is particularly relevant here -- CI often relies on gray literature, press releases, analyst reports. Integrity axis feeds into evidence.
- Surprise Register and Search Ledger render as top-level sections after Blind Spots.
- Methodology trace: competitive-intelligence tag, source-category mix (public filings / press / analyst / patents / job postings / etc.), decision-horizon.

## Native elements that MUST survive overlay
- Entity Profiles.
- Dimension-Level Comparison matrix.
- Known Blind Spots (this is disciplinary honesty that must survive).

Competitive intelligence has a distinctive decision-context sensitivity: the same facts transport differently to "enter market" vs "defend incumbency." Transportability rationale should name the specific strategic decision the caller is informing.
