Pestel Analysis

Analyze political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal forces. Use when external market shifts could materially affect a product, roadmap, or strategy.

7,800 stars 940 forksMarketing, Sales & Business

Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill pestel-analysis
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.git /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills/skills/pestel-analysis ~/.claude/skills/pestel-analysis

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

## Purpose
Conduct a systematic analysis of macro-environmental factors—Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal—that could impact your product or project. Use this to identify external opportunities and threats, inform strategic planning, assess market entry risks, and make data-driven decisions about product direction in the context of broader forces beyond your control.

This is not internal analysis—it's outward-facing assessment of the big-picture forces shaping your product's environment.

## Input

**Works best with:** The product, market, or strategic decision the analysis should serve.
**Also useful:** Geography, time horizon, and which forces you already suspect matter most.

Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.

**Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The skill asks what product/market and geography to analyze before scanning the six forces — an unanchored PESTEL is a trivia exercise.

**Example invocation:** `PESTEL for launching our telehealth platform in Germany over the next 18 months.`

## Key Concepts

### The PESTEL Framework
Originating from Francis Joseph Aguilar's 1967 PEST analysis, PESTEL extends the framework to six categories:

1. **Political:** Government policies, stability, trade regulations, taxation
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
pestel-analysis
Path
skills/pestel-analysis/SKILL.md
Repo updated
16 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Pestel Analysis skill do?

Analyze political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal forces. Use when external market shifts could materially affect a product, roadmap, or strategy.

How do I install the Pestel Analysis skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill pestel-analysis. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Pestel Analysis popular?

It lives in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, which has 7,800 GitHub stars and 940 forks, and is included in 3 curated skill lists.

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