pricing-packaging-tracker

Track competitor pricing and packaging changes as a diffable time series.

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One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill pricing-packaging-tracker
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Skill: pricing-packaging-tracker
Source: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/main/skills/pricing-packaging-tracker
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill pricing-packaging-tracker

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

Competitor pricing intelligence usually degrades into one-off screenshots that cannot be compared over time, so packaging restructures and feature-gate shifts — the earliest public signals of a strategy change — go unnoticed until a deal is lost.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Diffable Capture Schema: Records tiers, prices, feature gates, usage limits, free-tier boundaries, and enterprise signals in a stable schema so every run diffs cleanly against the prior capture.
  • Baseline and Delta Modes: Runs a full capture when no prior snapshot exists, or reports only what moved (with URLs, dates, and labeled Fact/Inference readings) when a prior capture is provided.
  • Cross-Competitor Signals: Synthesizes market-level pricing patterns and routes findings into battle cards or pricing reviews.
  • Use Case: A product manager pastes last quarter's pricing capture for three competitors and asks for a monthly delta run; the output flags that one rival moved API access behind a new higher tier, with evidence links and a strategic reading.

Quick Start

Run a pricing tracker on Competitor A, Competitor B, and Competitor C using the prior capture pasted below, and report what changed this quarter.

Frequently Asked Questions about pricing-packaging-tracker

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I track competitor pricing changes over time?

Capture each competitor's pricing page into a fixed schema covering tiers, gates, limits, and free-tier boundaries, then diff each new capture against the prior one. Running this on a monthly or quarterly cadence turns one-off screenshots into a comparable time series.

What should I monitor besides competitor price changes?

Watch packaging structure: feature gates, usage limits, tier restructures, and free-tier boundaries. These typically move before headline prices do, so a relocated gate or a new tier is the earliest public signal of a strategy shift.

How do I handle competitors with no published pricing?

Record what is public — editions, gates, published floors, and the scope of contact-sales language — and label everything else as inference. Never invent prices, discounts, or negotiated figures, since battle cards built on invented numbers fail in live deals.

When should I not use a pricing tracker?

Avoid it when you need pricing strategy advice for your own product — that is a pricing advisor's job — or when the entire competitor set is fully opaque, where win/loss evidence or customer interviews yield better signal than page captures.

Why does the capture schema need to stay identical between runs?

Diffability is the entire value of the time series. Reordering or improving the format between runs breaks every future diff, so the schema is treated as a contract with your own future runs.