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Field Note

The ToS changed three weeks before the launch

A competitor rewrote its terms with no announcement. Three weeks later the feature shipped. Legal pages move on engineering's clock, not marketing's.

Aug 15

3 min

Q&A

Should you respond to a competitor's page about you?

A competitor published a comparison page with your name on it. Six questions that decide whether you rebut it, rewrite your pages, or let it sit.

Aug 14

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

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