Positioning Statement
Create a Geoffrey Moore-style positioning statement. Use when clarifying who you serve, what problem you solve, your category, and why you're different from alternatives.
Install
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill positioning-statementgit 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/positioning-statement ~/.claude/skills/positioning-statementPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
## Purpose Create a Geoffrey Moore-style positioning statement that clearly articulates who your product serves, what need it addresses, how it's categorized, what benefit it delivers, and how it differs from alternatives. Use this when you need to align stakeholders on product strategy, guide messaging, or test if your value proposition is crisp and defensible. This is not a tagline or elevator pitch—it's a strategic clarity tool that forces you to make hard choices about target, need, and differentiation. ## Input **Works best with:** The product and its target customer. **Also useful:** The unmet need, product category, primary benefit, and nearest alternative — the skill drafts from what you give and asks only for what's missing. 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 for product and target customer first, then works through the Moore template slots. **Example invocation:** `Positioning statement for LaunchDarkly-style feature flags aimed at platform engineering leads at 200+ eng orgs.` ## Key Concepts ### The Geoffrey Moore Framework From *Crossing the Chasm*, Moore's framework splits positioning into two parts: **Value Proposition:** - **For** [target customer] - **that need** [underserved need] - [product name]
Details
- Skill name
positioning-statement- Repository
- deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
- Path
skills/positioning-statement/SKILL.md- Repo updated
- 16 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Positioning Statement skill do?
Create a Geoffrey Moore-style positioning statement. Use when clarifying who you serve, what problem you solve, your category, and why you're different from alternatives.
How do I install the Positioning Statement skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill positioning-statement. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Positioning Statement 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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