Competitive Moats
This is Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers framework packaged as a strategic analysis tool. It walks you through evaluating businesses for durable competitive advantage across seven specific categories: Scale Economies, Network Effects, Counter-Positioning, Switching Costs, Branding, Cornered Resource, and Process Power. The methodology is rigorous about requiring both a benefit and a barrier for true Power, which cuts through a lot of startup bullshit about moats. Most useful when you're making strategic decisions about where to invest time or money, analyzing acquisition targets, or honestly assessing whether your business can defend its margins. The framework is complete and mutually exclusive, so you're actually covering all the bases rather than brainstorming vibes.
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- Aug 21, 2026
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$ npx -y skills add guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill competitive-moats --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Competitive Moats
Build durable competitive advantage using Hamilton Helmer's "7 Powers" framework—the complete, mutually exclusive enumeration of all possible sources of sustainable business moats.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when you need to:
- Evaluate your competitive position and identify if you have true Power
- Choose strategic direction for building durable advantage
- Analyze competitors to understand their moats and vulnerabilities
- Advise on M&A whether an acquisition target has defensible value
- Assess startup investment potential for sustainable returns
- Plan market entry and determine if you can build Power against incumbents
- Diagnose strategic weakness when growth isn't translating to profits
- Prioritize initiatives by their potential to create or strengthen moats
This skill is particularly valuable for:
- Founders and executives making strategic decisions
- Investors evaluating businesses for defensibility
- Product managers prioritizing features that build advantage
- Strategy consultants analyzing competitive dynamics
- Anyone who suspects their business is vulnerable to commoditization
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- DevOps & CI/CD
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026
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