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A battlecard is only useful if it is honest: where you win, where you lose, what the competitor says about you, and the questions that expose their weaknesses without disparaging them. Cards built from marketing claims fail on first contact with a prospect who has seen both demos. Cards built from win/loss evidence and from what reps actually hear in deals hold up.

These prompts build the card from evidence, set positioning that can be used in conversation, and prepare responses to the competitor's specific claims. The model works only from what you give it about the competitor; it must not invent competitor facts, and the card should mark every claim by its source.

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1. Build the battlecard from win/loss evidence

Best forA card grounded in what actually happened in deals, not in feature comparisons.
Inputs needed
  • Win/loss notes
  • Customer quotes
  • Product differences
How to use itPaste real deal notes. Ask the model to mark each statement's source and to include where you lose — a card without that gets ignored by reps.
Expected outputBattlecard: where we win and why, where we lose and why, their likely moves, landmine questions, proof, and the evidence source for each line.
Act as a competitive intelligence lead building a battlecard against [competitor] for [our product].

Win/loss notes: [deals won and lost against them with reasons, quotes, deal profile]
What prospects say about them: [quotes]
Our differences: [capabilities, commercial model, service, integrations, with evidence]
Their public positioning: [claims from their site or reps]

Build the card:
1. Snapshot: who they are, where they play, typical deal profile they win — from our evidence, not their marketing.
2. Where we win (with the deal evidence and quote for each), and the profile of deals we win.
3. Where we lose (same standard). Do not soften this section.
4. Their likely moves in a deal: the claims they make about themselves and about us, and when in the cycle they make them.
5. Landmine questions: questions to plant with prospects that surface their weaknesses honestly — evidence-based, not insinuation.
6. Proof: references, results and demonstrations that decide deals against them.
7. Source marking: every line tagged as won/lost deal evidence, customer quote, verified public fact, or our claim.
8. What we do not know about them and should find out.

Never invent facts about the competitor. If the notes are thin, say the card is provisional and name the deals to debrief.

2. Set competitive positioning for live conversations

Best forA way to talk about the competitor that is confident, fair and useful to the prospect.
Inputs needed
  • Battlecard
  • Persona
  • Our strategy
How to use itAsk for positioning statements that describe the choice the prospect is making rather than attacking the competitor.
Expected outputPositioning frame, the 'when to choose us / when to choose them' statement, conversation lines by persona, and the rules of engagement.
You are setting competitive positioning against [competitor] for conversations with [persona].

Battlecard: [summary]
Our strategy: [where we want to win; segments we concede]

1. The choice frame: describe the decision the prospect is making in neutral terms (e.g. 'depth in X versus breadth across Y'), so our strengths become the natural criteria.
2. 'Choose us when… / choose them when…': an honest statement reps can say out loud that earns credibility and steers the criteria.
3. Three conversation lines per persona that position without disparaging: acknowledging the competitor's strength, then the difference that matters for this persona.
4. Criteria-setting questions: the questions that make our differentiators part of the prospect's evaluation criteria before the competitor is discussed.
5. Rules of engagement: never say about the competitor (unverifiable claims, personal criticism, price speculation), and how to respond if the prospect repeats a competitor claim we cannot verify.
6. The concession strategy: deals to walk away from early, and the line for doing so.

Positioning that requires the prospect to believe the competitor is bad will fail; positioning that helps them choose well can win.

3. Prepare responses to the competitor's specific claims

Best forReady answers to the claims reps keep hearing, with proof and the question that tests the claim.
Inputs needed
  • Claims heard
  • Our evidence
  • What we cannot counter
How to use itList the exact claims. The model prepares a response per claim: acknowledge, evidence, the question that makes the prospect test it — and says plainly where the claim is true.
Expected outputClaim-by-claim response table with evidence, the testing question, the honest concession where the claim holds, and the escalation path.
Act as a sales enablement lead preparing responses to claims [competitor] makes in deals against [our product].

Claims heard: [exact claims about them or about us, with the context]
Our evidence: [facts, results, references that bear on each]
Where they are right: [be honest]

For each claim:
1. Is it true, partly true, false, or unverifiable — based only on our evidence. State it plainly.
2. Response structure: acknowledge what is fair in the claim; the evidence that bears on it (one proof, sourced); the question that lets the prospect test the claim themselves (e.g. 'ask them to show that in a demo with your data').
3. Where the claim holds: the honest concession and the reframe to the criteria where we are stronger.
4. What not to say: speculation, counter-claims we cannot support.
5. Escalation: claims that need a technical response, a reference, or executive involvement.
6. Feedback loop: how reps log new claims so the card stays current.

Present as a table. A response that argues with a true claim damages the deal more than the claim did.

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