Founders
Nobody else is watching, because there is nobody else.
At ten people, competitive intelligence is a browser tab and a good memory. Both fail quietly.
It is your job, along with the other nine.
Early on you know your competitors better than anyone, because you were the one who lost the deals. Then you hire, and ship, and raise, and the knowledge stops updating. Six months later you are describing a competitor's product as it was, in a pitch, to someone who has just seen it as it is.
The tools built for this problem assume a competitive program and a person to run it. That is the wrong shape for a company of twelve, and the price says so.
Three competitors is usually the right number.
Not the fifteen in the market map. The two you actually lose to, and the one nobody mentions yet — the company that is one feature away from being in your category. Watching three properly beats watching fifteen badly, which is the same reason the entry plan is three and not thirty.
You give Norrel a domain. It finds that company's pricing page, changelog, documentation, careers page and review profiles itself, so setup is typing names rather than configuring sources.
What arrives, and what does not.
One brief a week, five minutes, with a paragraph at the end about what it means for what you are building. Pricing changes and launches arrive the day they happen because those affect deals in progress.
What does not arrive is the thing that made you turn off the last tool: a change notification for every rotated testimonial and updated copyright year. Most weeks, five to eight items clear the bar out of dozens detected.
Weekly briefMonday 17 August
3 of 41 changes cleared the bar
Acme · Pricing page · Tuesday
Was:
Starter — $29/mo, up to 5 seats, unlimited projectsNow: Starter — $29/mo, up to 3 seats, 10 projects. New Enterprise tier: SSO, SCIM, audit log.
Acme · Careers · four new roles
- Enterprise AE · New York
- Solutions Architect
- Security Engineer
- Security Engineer
Acme · Q2 earnings call · CFO, 34:12
“Shifting go-to-market focus toward larger deployments.”
What this means for you
Acme is moving upmarket and squeezing its small-team tier. The new three-seat cap opens a wedge with four-to-ten person teams — worth a targeted campaign and a comparison page this quarter.
What it costs.
The entry plan is three competitors, billed monthly, cancellable from your account page. There is no demo to sit through and no quote to wait for — the prices are published and the signup is self-serve.
Billing period: Monthly
Watch
$49/mo
- Three competitors
- Weekly brief by email
- Pricing, changelogs, docs and job postings
- Full change history
For founders and solo product managers
Brief
Most popular$99/mo
- Eight competitors
- Everything in Watch
- Slack delivery
- Same-day alerts for pricing and launches
- Earnings-call analysis
- Monthly shareable brief
- Reviews and security-page monitoring
For product teams at 10–200 person companies
Team
$199/mo
- Fifteen competitors
- Everything in Brief
- Five seats
- Custom sources
- API and webhooks
- Export to PDF and Notion
For teams where more than one person owns this
All plans include a 14-day trial. No sales call, cancel from your account page.
One honest limit.
Earnings-call analysis only applies to competitors that are publicly traded, which at your stage may be none of them. Every other source — pricing, changelogs, docs, hiring, new pages, reviews — works on any company with a public website.