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When the user wants to reverse engineer how another company grew and copy what worked. Also use when the user mentions 'reverse engineer,' 'how did X grow,' 'how does X get customers,' 'growth teardown,' 'marketing teardown,' 'GTM teardown,' 'growth blueprint,' 'what is X doing for marketing,' 'what made X take off,' 'copy X's playbook,' 'X's distribution strategy,' 'what content works for X,' 'funnel hack,' 'map their funnel,' or 'watch what X is doing.' Builds a dated log of a company's moves against its traffic curve from public data, sign-ups and demos, team interviews, and hidden signals (DNS, certificate logs, archives, sponsorships), compares it with the user's own data, and turns what lined up with growth into plays routed to the skill that runs each one. For a snapshot profile of a competitor's positioning, pricing, and features, see competitor-profiling. For comparison pages, see competitors. For why a single post went viral, see social.

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Play Routing

Every play in a teardown names the skill that runs it and, for repeat work, the loop that keeps it going. Use this table to route each one. Write the play's prompt so it starts with that skill and passes along the teardown's specifics (the formula, the page family, the evidence link).

Contents

  • Routing table
  • Writing the prompt
  • Example

Routing Table

What the teardown found Skill that runs it Loop that keeps it going (marketing-loops)
A page family carrying non-brand traffic (templates, integrations, use cases, locations) programmatic-seo The programmatic-SEO quality loop
Comparison or alternative pages ranking competitors The keyword-gap loop
Glossary, guides, or a blog driving traffic content-strategy, then copywriting The content-calendar refill loop
Named and cited first in AI answers ai-seo The AI-answer check loop
Links from many domains to one asset link-building The backlink-prospecting loop
A free tool or calculator earning traffic free-tools (none; one-off build)
Long-running ads on a network ads for structure, ad-creative for creative The daily-creative-drop loop, the ad-fatigue loop
Founder posts with numbers driving reach social The content-repurposing loop
A content format or formula winning on a channel social (short-form scripts and posts), video for production The niche-outlier loop
Creators teaching the product influencer-marketing The creator-scouting loop
A launch, launch week, or Product Hunt spike launch The launch-reaction loop
Press or podcast runs public-relations The newsjacking loop
Community threads driving signups community-marketing The community-engagement loop
A "made with" badge or shared output loop referrals (loop design), signup (the landing step) The referral-nudge loop
An affiliate or referral program referrals The referral-nudge loop
Directory and marketplace listings directory-submissions The directory-submission loop
Fast first result, light sign-up signup, onboarding The onboarding drop-off loop
A pricing or packaging change that lined up with growth pricing The pricing-page-experiment loop
A trial or credit model that converts paywalls The trial-conversion loop
Partner or integration listings co-marketing The partner-pipeline loop
Lifecycle email or in-app nudges emails The lifecycle-email-refresh loop
A lead magnet or gated asset lead-magnets The lead-capture-asset loop
Outbound to a defined account list prospecting, cold-email The signal-sweep loop
An onboarding email sequence that converts (stage 3) emails The lifecycle-email-refresh loop
Save offers in the cancel flow (stage 3) churn-prevention The churn-signal loop
A fast, well-run sales process (stage 3) sales-enablement, revops (none; one-off build)
A positioning shift that came before growth (stage 5) product-marketing for positioning, copywriting for the homepage The claim-drift loop
Newsletter, podcast, or YouTube sponsorships (stage 5) influencer-marketing The creator-scouting loop
Coupon or lifetime-deal distribution (stage 5) offers (none; one-off test)
Events, virtual events, or conference sponsorships (stage 5) events (none; per event)
A review campaign (stage 5 review spike) referrals (review programs) The review-site-management loop
A marketplace or integration listing (stage 5) co-marketing, directory-submissions The partner-pipeline loop
An order bump, upsell, or downsell sequence (Funnel Hack) offers, cro The pricing-page-experiment loop
An abandoned-cart or abandoned-opt-in flow (Funnel Hack) emails, sms The lifecycle-email-refresh loop
A quiz or webinar funnel (Funnel Hack) lead-magnets, events The lead-capture-asset loop
Conquesting ads on competitor names (Funnel Hack) ads, competitors The paid-search query-mining loop
An industry-specific play from an industry pack The skill the pack names The loop the pack's play needs, if any

Every play also needs its metric tracked. If the user can't measure it today, add an analytics step to the prompt.

Some plays don't transfer. A play that depended on the target's funding, audience, or founder fame goes in plays to skip, with the reason.

Writing the Prompt

A good prompt gives the skill everything it would otherwise ask for:

  1. The skill: "Use the programmatic-seo skill."
  2. The evidence: what the target did and the link.
  3. The user's version: the specific asset, scaled to the user's stage.
  4. The formula or house style from stage 6, if it's a content play.
  5. The metric and when to check it.

Example

Use the programmatic-seo skill. Acme's /templates/* family (480 pages, observed in their sitemap, 2026-10-30) carried about 41% of their non-brand search traffic, and it existed four months before their growth inflection. We have 12 template pages. Plan a template page family for our invoicing product: the template types our customers search for, the page structure, the data each page needs, and internal links from our pricing and features pages. Start with the 20 highest-volume template keywords. Track impressions for /templates/ in Search Console weekly, and check at 60 days.

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