Your product/business: 
Competitors: 

Analyze your moat:

1. Current advantages:
   - What makes you different?
   - Which are temporary vs sustainable?
   - Why can't competitors copy this instantly?

2. Types of moats (rank each):
   - Network effects (more valuable with more users?)
   - Switching costs (hard to leave?)
   - Brand/trust (would customers prefer you?)
   - Cost advantage (can you undercut?)
   - Data/IP (unique information assets?)
   - Technology (hard to replicate?)
   - Regulatory (protected?)
   - Scale economies (unit costs drop with size?)

3. Strength test:
   For each moat:
   - How strong is it today? (1-10)
   - How strong in 3 years?
   - What would break it?
   - How long for a well-funded competitor to overcome?
   - Are you investing to strengthen it?

4. The threat analysis:
   - Which competitor could threaten your moat fastest?
   - What would they need to do?
   - How much would it cost them?
   - What's your defense?

5. Moat building:
   - Which moat should you strengthen?
   - Which should you build?
   - What's preventing you?
   - 12-month plan to deepen moat?

Examples

Input

{
  "business": "AI code review tool with industry-specific models (fintech focus)",
  "competitors": "GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeGuru, generic linters"
}

Output

8 moat types analyzed and ranked, strength scores, threat analysis, and 12-month moat-building plan with specific investments.

Sources

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economicmoat.asp

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