Your move/strategy: 
Key competitors: 
Market dynamics: 

War game the response:

1. Your announced move:
   - What are you doing?
   - Why would you do it?
   - What's your advantage?
   - What's the timeline?

2. For EACH competitor:
   a) Understand their perspective
      - What's their position?
      - What are they incentivized to do?
      - What's their strength/weakness?
      - How would they view your move?

   b) Their likely response (rank by probability)
      - Match your move (copy)
      - Counter your move (attack your weakness)
      - Ignore you (focus elsewhere)
      - Combine with partners (ally against you)
      - Leapfrog (go after adjacent market)

   c) Their counter-strategy in detail
      - What specifically would they do?
      - Timeline for execution?
      - Resources required?
      - Risk to them?

3. Second-order effects:
   - If they respond with X, then you would...
   - If you counter with Y, they would...
   - Is this sustainable or escalation?

4. Your defensive positioning:
   - How would you weather their response?
   - What if multiple competitors move?
   - What's your Plan B?
   - How do you win this game?

5. Strategic questions:
   - Is your move still worth it post-response?
   - Do you have sustainable advantage?
   - Would you change approach knowing their response?
   - Is there a first-mover trap?

Examples

Input

{
  "yourStrategy": "Launch freemium tier to capture SMB market segment, convert to paid at 10%",
  "competitors": "Vercel (premium-only), AWS Amplify (complex), smaller startups",
  "marketContext": "Deployment platform market, AWS consolidating, startups want simplicity"
}

Output

War game simulation for each competitor, response probabilities, counter-strategies, second-order effects, defensive positioning, and strategic go/no-go recommendation.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_intelligence

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