Category Narrative Mapper

Maps the narrative landscape of the category — the dominant stories and points of view rivals tell, the language conventions and framing clichés everyone reaches for, and a per-competitor narrative teardown (each rival's arc, its claimed onlyness, its proof pattern) together with how that messaging has shifted over time (today's scraped copy against archived copy). It is the second move of the TALE Trace phase and feeds the TALE-T (Truth) dimension directly: the category frame chosen and defensible sub-item (you cannot claim "the only [frame] that…" without knowing what frames the category already recognizes) and the competitive alternatives named from win-loss and interviews, not a vendor feature matrix sub-item — it supplies the narrative half of the named-alternatives set the T1 differentiation veto is later judged against. It never scores; only narrative-quality-auditor computes the NQS.

Scope guard: this skill produces the category narrative map document only. It does not build the positioning canvas or the onlyness statement (reuse positioning-mapper), capture the beachhead's beliefs, objections, or switching forces (that is audience-belief-mapper), do SERP keyword or ranking work (keyword-research), reconcile positioning against the claims ledger (positioning-truth-tracer), adjudicate any product or comparative claim (offer-claims-registry is the sole writer of memory/claims/claims-ledger.md), or compute the NQS. It works one lever — the category's narrative terrain — and hands off.

Quick Start

Map the category narrative for [product / category]. Competitors: [names or "help me find them"].

Tear down how [Competitor A], [Competitor B], [Competitor C] tell their story — arc, claimed onlyness, proof pattern.

Show how [competitor]'s messaging has shifted over the last 2 years — scrape their site now and compare against the archive.