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Prompt repository Sales

Build a competitor battlecard for your sales team

You need a one-page guide to where a rival wins, where you win, and how to answer their claims.

Registry no.
SAL-015
Collection
Sales
Laid out for
Any chat model
Score
10 out of 10
Blanks to fill
7
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The prompt

Score 10 of 10, Excellent

Use it when You need a one-page guide to where a rival wins, where you win, and how to answer their claims.

  • {{our_product}}
  • {{competitor}}
  • {{our_facts}}
  • {{competitor_info}}
  • {{deal_notes}}
  • {{today}}
  • {{stale_after}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Build a one-page competitor battlecard comparing {{our_product}} with {{competitor}}, for our sales team to use during live deals. Reps will trust it only if it is honest about where {{competitor}} is stronger, so balance matters more than making us look good.

Facts about our product (features, pricing, limits, proof we may share):
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{{our_facts}}
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What we know about {{competitor}}, each item with its source and date:
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{{competitor_info}}
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Notes from deals we won or lost against them:
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{{deal_notes}}
"""

Use these sections, in under 500 words:
1. In one line: who they are and the buyer they suit best.
2. Where they win: the situations and needs where they are the better fit.
3. Where we win: the situations where we are the better fit, each backed by a fact above.
4. Their common claims and our answer: a table with Their claim, Is it accurate?, and What to say.
5. Questions to ask the buyer: three or four fair questions that help the buyer test what matters to them.
6. When to walk away: the deals we usually lose to them, and why.
7. Sources: the date this card was built ({{today}}) and the source of each competitor fact.

Rules:
- Use only the information above. Mark any competitor fact without a source, or older than {{stale_after}}, as "[UNVERIFIED]" so reps check it before repeating it.
- Do not state anything negative about {{competitor}} that the material does not support, because a false claim about a competitor can lose the deal and create legal risk.
- Do not invent prices, customer names, win rates or features for either company.

The card should be quick to scan on a call: short bullets, plain words, and talk tracks a rep could say aloud. For example, a good talk track sounds like "If offline use matters to you, ask both of us to show it on a phone," not "We crush them on mobile."

If the material is too thin for a section, write "Not enough information" under it and list what to find out.

Variables

{{our_product}}
Your product or service name.
{{competitor}}
The competitor's name.
{{our_facts}}
Your features, pricing, limits and the proof you are allowed to share.
{{competitor_info}}
What you know about the competitor, each item with its source and date: their website, pricing page, reviews, analyst notes.
{{deal_notes}}
Notes from deals won or lost against them, or "none".
{{today}}
Today's date, so readers know how current the card is.
{{stale_after}}
How old a competitor fact can be before it needs rechecking, for example "six months".

Why it works

  • What good looks like. The card has to say where the competitor wins, because reps stop using a battlecard the first time a buyer proves it one-sided.
  • What to avoid. Competitor facts without a source or past their date are marked unverified, and nothing negative goes in without support, which protects both the deal and the company.
  • If unsure. Thin sections say "Not enough information" with what to find out, so gaps in your intelligence stay visible.

How to use it

  1. Press Fill in variables and type your details into each blank. What you type stays in this browser.
  2. Copy the filled prompt into the AI tool you already use, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, or open it in the Grader or the Prompt Tester here.
  3. Before you rely on it, try it on three or four real examples. The Prompt Tester runs them all at once and shows which ones go wrong.