VC Market Mapping Skills

Skills are reusable prompt templates for Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool. This pack helps VCs and investors build competitive market maps: define markets, discover competitors across 4 levels, and enrich with positioning axes and competitive intelligence.

Maintained by Extruct AI.

> These skills are templates. They show one way to run VC market mapping workflows using Extruct and Claude Code. Fork them, adapt to your workflow. The skill patterns are the value, the specific integrations are up to you.

Install

/plugin marketplace add extruct-ai/vc-skills
/plugin install vc-skills

Quick Start

Start from a company:

I want to map the competitive landscape around getenter.ai.
They do AI legal SaaS in Brazil.

Start from a market category:

Map the AI code review market.
I want to understand who the players are
and how they position themselves.

Each prompt triggers the skills automatically. Claude will research, propose a market definition, discover competitors, and enrich them with positioning data.

Skills

Three skills: a shared API layer and two VC-specific skills that work together as a pipeline.

extruct-api (shared)
market-definition → competitive-landscape

| Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | extruct-api | Core Extruct API wrapper. Covers semantic search, lookalike search, Deep Search, company and people tables, column operations, enrichment, and contact finding. Shared with GTM skills. | | vc-market-definition | Define market context: positioning axes, capability areas, buyer personas. Two entry modes: start from a company domain or a market category. | | vc-competitive-landscape | Full competitor analysis: scope 4 levels (direct, indirect, adjacent, substitute), discover via semantic + lookalike + deep search, enrich with positioning axes and competitive intelligence. |

About Extruct

Extruct: API-first company search and lookalikes engine.

Core capabilities:

• Instant Search: semantic company search (free, unlimited)
• Lookalike Search: find companies similar to your best accounts (free, unlimited)
• Deep Search: AI-powered discovery with criteria scoring (1 credit/match)
• AI Tables: research any data point per company with AI agents (1 credit/cell)

Pricing: from $59/mo for 1K credits. Free trial with 100 credits. See extruct.ai/pricing.

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Reference

Output Artifacts

Skills automatically create a claude-code-gtm/vc-maps/ directory with all intermediate files:

claude-code-gtm/vc-maps/{map-slug}/
├── market_context.md          ← axes, capabilities, buyer personas
└── competitor_scoping.md      ← table IDs, search methodology, company counts

Enriched company data lives in Extruct tables (one per competitor level).

Environment Variables

Only the Extruct API token is needed.

| Variable | Service | Used by | |----------|---------|---------| | EXTRUCT_API_TOKEN | Extruct API | extruct-api, vc-market-definition, vc-competitive-landscape |