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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

Playbook

Five days to onboard a PM on your competitors

New PMs usually inherit a battlecard deck and a Slack channel. Here is a five-day plan that builds real competitive judgment instead of trivia.

Aug 12

6 min

Case Study

HubSpot's Academy catalog is a roadmap in disguise

HubSpot publishes its strategy as a course catalog. A teardown of what Academy, the Hub names, and the partner directory reveal about where it is going.

Aug 11

5 min

List

7 ways to timestamp a competitor's change

Spotting a competitor's change is the easy half. Dating it turns a screenshot into intel. Seven ways to timestamp a change without guessing at it.

Aug 10

5 min

Field Note

The sponsor page told us more than the keynote

Event sponsor tiers are a public budget disclosure. Which conferences a competitor pays for, and at what level, shows where their money actually moved.

Aug 7

3 min

Q&A

What can you learn from a competitor's GitHub?

Public repos, SDK commits and issue threads expose roadmap and priorities weeks before the changelog does. Six questions about reading competitor GitHub.

Aug 6

5 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

Playbook

Your competitor just got acquired. Now what?

An acquisition rewrites a competitor's roadmap, pricing and support long before anyone announces it. Here is a concrete week-one playbook for reading it.

Aug 4

6 min

Case Study

Webflow told you it was repositioning. In public.

Webflow's shift from website builder to platform was visible on its pricing, marketplace, and careers pages long before the narrative caught up.

Aug 3

5 min

List

7 jobs your monitoring tool will never do

Alerting is the easy half of competitive intelligence. Seven jobs that stay human no matter how good your tooling gets, and why that is fine.

Aug 1

5 min

Field Note

Support heard about the competitor before we did

Customers name competitors in support tickets months before those names reach a strategy doc. Here is how to read your own queue as an intel surface.

Jul 31

3 min

Q&A

Why your competitive intel doesn't get trusted

Competitive intel usually fails on credibility, not coverage. Six questions about why teams quietly ignore your research and what actually fixes it.

Jul 31

5 min

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