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# Partner Ecosystem Mapping Map the full partner and channel landscape of one business area. No single canonical framework owns this discipline. The map covers: - Which partner types touch your customers. - Who overlaps with your market. - Where the coverage gaps and conflict zones sit. - Which ecosystem segments deserve investment attention. Built from: - A role taxonomy: Jay McBain's trifurcation of the channel. - An overlap mechanic: account mapping, popularized by Ecosystem-Led Growth. - A mapping technique: Verna Allee's Value Network Analysis, Ron Adner's value blueprint. - A prioritization pass: weighted scorecard plus 2×2. The output is a decision artifact, never a partner program: - Ecosystem map. - Coverage/whitespace view. - Prioritization view. - A short ecosystem strategy memo. Program design, tier criteria, conflict rules of engagement, and per-partner economics hand off to sibling skills instead (see Reference). ## Interview Ask before mapping anything. One question per message; offer multiple-choice answers when possible. Skip a question only when the user already gave the answer. - B2B, B2C, or hybrid? What does the company sell, to whom (ICP), at what price band, through which motion (self-serve or sales-led)? - Which single business area or product line should the map cover? (Never the whole company at once - offer the 2-3 plausible scopes as choices.) - What is the goal of the map: choose a channel strategy, find coverage gaps, diagnose conflict