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by Dean Petersdeanpeters/product-manager-skills7.1k stars
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Track competitor pricing and packaging as a diffable time series. Use when monitoring tiers, gates, limits, and price moves on a monthly or quarterly cadence.

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Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/deanpeters/product-manager-skills/pricing-packaging-tracker

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Pricing & Packaging Tracker — Worked Example

All companies, prices, URLs, and figures are fictional. Same scenario as the suite's other examples: Fieldlight tracking its FSM competitors. This is a delta-mode run diffing against a June 28 baseline capture; it lands in the same fictional month as the competitive-intel-watch example and catches the same Wrenchline move from the pricing-specialist angle — plus a structural change the broader watch's materiality bar didn't feature.

Invocation: Pricing tracker on Wrenchline, DispatchCrow, Vantiga FSM — prior capture from June 28 pasted below. [capture]

Pricing Capture / Delta Report

1. Run Header

Competitor set: Wrenchline, DispatchCrow, Vantiga FSM Prior capture date: 2026-06-28 This run date: 2026-07-31

2. Pricing Capture (per competitor)

Delta mode — captures below only for the two competitors with changes.

Wrenchline — pricing page, as of 2026-07-31

  • Tiers: Essentials: $79/mo flat (< 25 techs) — new · Pro: $59/tech/mo, annual · Suite: $89/tech/mo, annual, 25-tech minimum
  • Key gates: dispatch board gates at Pro; payroll/inventory/fleet gate at Suite; quoting now included from Essentials up — new placement
  • Usage limits: Essentials hard-caps at 25 technicians
  • Free tier / trial: 14-day trial, card required (unchanged)
  • Enterprise signals: "contact sales" above 100 techs (unchanged)

DispatchCrow — pricing page, as of 2026-07-31

  • Tiers: Free (≤5 techs) · Grow: $39/tech/mo · Pro: $69/tech/mo (all unchanged)
  • Key gates: payments now included at Grow (was Pro) — moved down; capacity view listed as "coming to Pro" — new
  • Usage limits: unchanged
  • Free tier / trial: free tier unchanged
  • Enterprise signals: none published (unchanged)

3. Changes Since Last Capture (Delta Mode)

Wrenchline — new $79 Essentials tier below the suite

  • Then / Now: entry point was Pro at $59/tech/mo annual (a 10-tech shop: ~$590/mo) → Essentials $79/mo flat, monthly billing, no dispatch board — Fact
  • Evidence: pricing page vs. archived capture, Jun 28 vs. Jul 31
  • Reading: a flat-price fighter brand aimed at the self-serve low end — defends against DispatchCrow and us without discounting the suite — Inference. The withheld dispatch board is the tell: they're protecting the Pro upgrade path, not serving the segment.

DispatchCrow — payments gate moved down a tier

  • Then / Now: payments gated at Pro ($69) → included at Grow ($39) — Fact
  • Evidence: pricing page vs. archived capture, Jun 28 vs. Jul 31
  • Reading: the subscription price didn't move; the gate did. They're trading gate revenue for transaction volume — payments take-rate is becoming the business model, with the software as distribution — Inference. Their "coming to Pro" capacity-view note also corroborates the watch report's hiring-based inference from the product side.

Vantiga FSM: no pricing or packaging changes this cycle.

4. Signals

  • Both movers cut the effective entry cost without touching headline per-tech prices — the market is competing on entry friction, not list price — Inference
  • For our pricing: a $79 flat competitor tier and a $39 payments-included tier now bracket our planned entry point; our quoting module's pricing needs to assume payments revenue arrives later, not at launch — Inference
  • For the battle card: the Pricing & Packaging Snapshot section is stale as of Jul 24 (Essentials) — already flagged by the watch; this capture supplies the exact then/now rows

Assumptions to Validate

  • Essentials' 25-tech cap is enforced at signup, not negotiable (mystery-shop it)
  • DispatchCrow's take-rate economics work at trades transaction sizes (same open question as ours)
  • Vantiga's unchanged page reflects strategy, not neglect — their Go tier launched in March and hasn't moved since

Why this example works

  • Structure told the story before numbers did. Neither mover changed a headline price. A new tier and a relocated gate carried the entire strategic signal — exactly the "the gate moves first" teaching the skill is built on.
  • The then/now discipline makes claims checkable. Every change is old → new with an archive diff URL and both dates. Next quarter's run diffs against this document with zero archaeology.
  • The quiet competitor got one line. Vantiga didn't move; the report says so and moves on — but the Assumptions section still asks whether that quiet is strategy or neglect.
  • It cooperates with the chain without duplicating it. The watch report caught Essentials at materiality altitude; this capture supplies the row-level detail the battle card's pricing section actually pastes in. Two skills, one event, different jobs.

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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  • Gen Agent Trust Hub2mo

    This skill tracks competitor pricing and packaging by analyzing public web pages. It is functionally safe, with no detected malicious code, exfiltration patterns, or obfuscation. It includes a minor risk of indirect prompt injection inherent to processing external website content.

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Provenance

Signed by skilld at eb7a51e. This ties the file your Agent reads to that commit on GitHub. It does not review the instructions.

Last checked against GitHub last month.

Activeupdated 3 months ago

Capability

argument-hint
[competitor set, and prior capture if one exists]
type
workflow
theme
market-intelligence
Other metadata
intent
Capture competitor public pricing pages into a stable schema, diff against the prior capture, and report tier changes, price moves, feature-gate shifts, and packaging restructures with URLs and dates — because packaging changes signal strategy earlier than price changes do.
best_for
[
  "Keeping battle-card pricing sections current without manual screenshot archaeology",
  "Catching packaging restructures — the earliest public signal of a strategy shift",
  "Building the pricing time series that grounds your own pricing decisions"
]
scenarios
[
  "Baseline the pricing pages of our four main competitors, then track monthly",
  "Did anyone in our space change pricing or packaging this quarter?"
]
estimated_time
15-30 min per run

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