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# Competitive Intelligence Briefing ## Why this exists Raw competitor tracking fails in three predictable ways: 1. **The link dump** — "Competitor X changed their pricing page" with no analysis, leaving the reader to do the actual thinking every single week. 2. **False urgency** — every finding treated as equally important, which trains readers to skim past all of it, including the one that actually matters. 3. **The stale watchlist** — tracking the same one or two obvious competitors indefinitely while an adjacent player quietly becomes the real threat. This skill exists to produce analysis, not a feed, and to only raise alarm when an alarm is warranted. ## Process ### 1. Maintain a deliberately scoped watchlist Three tiers, reviewed periodically rather than set once and forgotten: - **Direct competitors** — same product, same buyer - **Adjacent/emerging competitors** — different angle, same budget or same job-to-be-done - **Budget competitors** — the alternative a customer actually picks when they don't buy any dedicated tool: doing nothing, a spreadsheet, an internal build A watchlist that's never revisited is how blind spots form — schedule a periodic check (e.g., quarterly) on whether it's still the right list. ### 2. Pull from a fixed set of source types each cycle Changelogs/release notes, pricing and packaging pages, review sites (G2, Capterra), competitor blog and marketing content, sales win/loss notes, job postings (hiring signals reveal strategic bets be