About this template
The card that only lists wins gets your rep ambushed
Marketing produces six things you're better at, cites none of them, and never mentions the two deal types the competitor genuinely wins. The rep uses it once, gets blindsided on a loss it didn't warn about, and never opens it again.
"When they win" is mandatory
Every card names the specific situations where the competitor is the better choice, and the honest move for the rep — usually acknowledge and requalify, not counter.
A card with no loss section is not finished. That's in the rules file, not left to taste.
Every competitor claim carries a URL and a date
Public sources only: pricing pages, docs, changelogs, status pages, public reviews. No rumours, no rep anecdotes, no "we heard from a customer".
Anything unsourceable becomes [UNVERIFIED — do not say]. Pricing older than 90
days is marked STALE rather than silently trusted, because competitor pricing
moves.
And the bottom section is what we could not verify — the things you believe but nothing public supports. That list is what a rep must not say out loud.
One screen, five sections
- Positioning — the difference in one sentence
- Their top 3 objections about you — with responses that are allowed to concede
- Your 3 wedges — each tied to a sourced fact, not an adjective
- When they win — the honest losses
- Landmines — questions that surface a real weakness
Landmines are questions, never assertions. "How does their export work at your volume?" — so the prospect discovers it rather than being told. That's the difference between a rep sounding informed and sounding threatened.
It won't disparage
No mockery, no adjectives about their quality, no speculation about their company's health. A rep quoting a snide battle card in writing is a discoverable document.
Internal only — and it enforces that
A competitor claim that's fine in a rep's hands is a legal problem on a landing page. Ask it to turn a card into public comparison copy and it refuses.
Re-run it quarterly
It diffs against the existing card: what moved on their pricing page, what shipped in their changelog. A battle card decays fast, and the diff is the update.
What you supply
Your own Claude Code login. Sources are public pages.
Drop your lost-deal notes into ~/battlecards/sources/ — those are the real
objections, and invented ones waste the card.
Where this stops
It drafts internal cards. It won't publish, won't assert a competitor's roadmap, churn, margins or internal numbers, won't claim win rates you didn't supply, and won't say a competitor "is losing".
Verified on build: the skill, the working tree, the never-publish guard, the sourcing rule, the mandatory loss section and the five-section structure are present on a fresh fork. Running it on your own competitor is yours to do.