Benchmark Due Diligence
Adversarially tears down a founder, company or product you envy — separating marketing bubble from real signal, then mapping the validated playbook onto your own resources.
Data & AnalyticsAdvanced★ 1,348⑂ 215AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 24, 2026
What it does
Instead of a neutral briefing, this skill assumes the shiny success story is inflated until proven otherwise, and ends with "what this means for ME".
- Phase 0: Establish the benchmark's real ownership graph and the attribution of the headline stat by evidence — never inferred from shared domains or similar names
- Phase 1–2: Per-dimension pipeline of a collection agent (objective, every finding carries a source URL and source type) then a verification agent (adversarial, hunting falsifying evidence), grading claims L1–L4 with verdicts from confirmed to debunked-bubble
- Phase 3: Bubble-busting table sorted most-water-first, plus an attribution breakdown giving % ranges for product vs market timing vs personal-IP marketing vs operations, explicitly separating replicable method from luck
- Phase 4: Resource-mapping table of playbook elements × your real assets, tagged ✅ borrowable / ⚠️ not replicable / 🔄 already doing / 🚫 bubble-don't-copy, plus an action list and open questions
- Privacy discipline: your private context (client names, strategy) is injected only into the final mapping agent, never into agents that run web searches
Who it's for
- Founders and strategists who need a rigorous teardown of a competitor or role model
- Investors and BD folks verifying claims like "#1 on Product Hunt", "0 to 1M users", or funding/valuation numbers
- Marketers and solo builders deciding whether a role model's growth playbook is actually reproducible
Examples
- "This founder claims they took the product from 0 to 1M users — is that real?" → the trophy stat becomes the #1 verification target, checking whether they were the founder or the departed growth lead
- "I want to copy a competitor SaaS's growth playbook" → platform matrix, persona and audience-borrowing tactics are decomposed and mapped against resources you actually control
- "Their announced funding and valuation smell inflated" → cross-checks registry/funding data (via the qcc skills for mainland China) against independent third-party sources and returns a bubble-busting table
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the benchmark-due-diligence folder from the GitHub repo daymade/claude-code-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/benchmark-due-diligence/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-code-skills/benchmark-due-diligence ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal.
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git - Create the skills directory:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the skill:
cp -r claude-code-skills/benchmark-due-diligence ~/.claude/skills/ - Confirm the four documents inside
references/came along with it. - (Recommended) Install the companion skills
deep-research,osint-investigateand theqccfamily the same way so the integrations work. - Restart Claude Code and try: "Do due diligence on company X — I think their numbers are inflated."
- Note that it fans out many parallel agents and burns tokens; start with 2–3 dimensions for a quick read before running a deep audit.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT