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Opinion

A screenshot is not a change record

Visual diffing catches every pixel and ranks none of them. The thing you actually needed was one sentence, and an image will not let you quote it.

Sep 9

4 min

Opinion

Your engineers already did the competitor research

Competitive intel programs recruit from marketing and product. The people who have actually used the competitor's product write code, and nobody asks them.

Sep 3

5 min

Opinion

Cancel your weekly competitive review

The weekly competitor review is a batching artifact from an era of slow information. Kill the meeting, fix the alerting, keep the quarterly one.

Aug 27

4 min

Opinion

Affiliate terms leak more than a pricing page

Pricing pages are written for buyers. Affiliate terms are written for partners — and they quietly leak margin, CAC tolerance, and churn assumptions.

Aug 21

4 min

Opinion

Lost-deal notes are not competitive intel

Lost-deal notes feel like the most authoritative competitor intel you have. Structurally, they're the least reliable input in the entire program.

Aug 13

4 min

Opinion

Your competitor's blog is their weakest signal

The competitor blog is the most-read and least-useful surface in competitive intel. Here's why it lags reality, and which surfaces move first.

Aug 5

4 min

Opinion

Watch what a competitor translates, not what it ships

Product changes get all the attention. But a competitor's quiet localization moves are the market bet almost nobody bothers to watch, and they cost real money.

Jul 27

4 min

Opinion

Being first to a competitor's move is overrated

Reacting fast to a rival's move feels urgent, but speed almost never decides the outcome. Noticing the right change and judging it well does.

Jul 23

4 min

Opinion

Nobody reads the #competitors channel

The #competitors Slack channel feels like monitoring, but it's a graveyard. Links go in, nobody diffs them, and the signal you needed scrolls away by Friday.

Jul 19

4 min

Opinion

Stop watching the market leader

The market leader is the safest competitor to ignore. The company quietly taking your deals is smaller, faster, and changing its public surfaces every week.

Jul 13

4 min

Opinion