What you'll walk away with

This free guide gives you a practical, step-by-step benchmarking system that surfaces what competitors are planning before they go public.

A 5-KPI competitive scorecard you can use tomorrow

A ready-to-run benchmarking framework with exact metric definitions, share of voice, narrative velocity, community coverage, and more.

A category whitespace analysis methodology

Identify the growing consumer conversations your competitors haven't claimed yet, and use them to sharpen your next brief before anyone else gets there.

A competitor community profile template

Build structured intelligence profiles for your top 3–5 competitors, mapping their community presence, narrative clusters, and seasonal launch patterns.

A full implementation checklist

From setting up your monitoring cadence to getting competitive intelligence into your agency briefs, everything you need to make this a system, not a one-off.

Social Intelligence Edge

Know before they launch.

Run a 60-second radar check on your own competitive monitoring, then jump straight to the part of the guide built to close your biggest gap.

4 signal types tracked

What's on the radar

The full guide walks Directors through four stages of competitive intelligence. The radar check below tells you which one to read first.

PAGE 01

The Benchmarking Gap

Audit what your current monitoring can actually see, and where it goes quiet.

PAGE 02

The Four Signals Directors Must Track

Narrative, media, positioning, and coordinated activity, the four things worth watching.

PAGE 03

A Detection Framework: Rumor to Launch

How a competitor's move moves from whisper to headline, and when to catch it.

PAGE 04

Your Benchmarking & Positioning Workflow

Turn signals into owned, tiered action instead of one-off scrambling.

The radar check

Four questions. No wrong answers, just a clearer picture of where your team's data gap is right now.

Question 1 of 4

Scanning your signal coverage…

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Why the radar matters

84%

of businesses say their market has become meaningfully more competitive in the last three years.

48%

of competitive intelligence programs have an executive sponsor, and those that do see a 76% boost in effectiveness.

28%

faster deal velocity for teams with access to real-time competitive intelligence versus those without.

Sources: Ranktracker Competitive Intelligence Research (2024); CI Strategy Playbook, Prospeo (2026); Competitor Analysis Statistics, SHNO.co (2026)

Download the full guide

Four pages. No fluff. Practical frameworks and a checklist you can run this week.

The Benchmarking Gap: audit what your monitoring can actually see
The four signals worth building alerts around
A four-phase framework for catching a competitor's move early
A ready-to-adapt tiering and ownership workflow

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