Skillsad-recon

/ad-recon — See what your competitors are actually running

Collects competitor ads from public libraries and maps the angles and formats competitors are using.

Jackson Dean · Jul 2026

Ad Recon gathers current competitor ads and adds a classified competitive view to a product's creative dossier.

Workflow

  • Takes competitor targets from brand/context.md, an existing dossier, or user input.
  • Records captured ads with stable IDs, verbatim copy, platform, format, and source URLs.
  • Classifies ads by angle and awareness stage.
  • Produces competitor patterns, a saturation map, coverage notes, and possible openings for further testing.

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Install
npx skills add channel47/skills --skill ad-recon
Source on GitHub

Requires access to the public ad libraries used in a run. Writes to the same product dossier as Creative Strategist.

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