RivalDesk runs a simple loop on your behalf. You add a competitor by domain, a team of AI analysts watches and filters the noise, and you get a weekly briefing plus real-time act-now alerts, each with a recommended counter-move.
Three steps, and only the first one needs you. After that the team runs on its own.
You paste a competitor domain and nothing else. Auto-discovery crawls the site, identifies the pages worth watching (the pricing page, the changelog and release notes, the careers board, the review profiles, the homepage and key landing pages), and configures the right analysts against each one. There is no rules to write and no feeds to wire up. The analysts self-configure from what they find.
The team checks your competitors on the cadence you set, one analyst per dimension. Each one reads what it sees and decides what actually matters, sorting every change into Act now, Worth knowing or FYI. Timestamps, session tokens, cosmetic tweaks and re-flowed copy are recognised as noise and never reach you, so you get judgement, not a diff.
A weekly executive briefing lands in your inbox with everything that moved, ranked by impact. Act-now signals do not wait for the briefing, they alert you in real time. Every signal, urgent or routine, ends with a recommended counter-move, so you know how to respond before it costs you a deal.
Cosmetic edits, timestamps and re-flowed copy are recognised and dropped. What is left is sorted into Act now, Worth knowing and FYI, so the inbox you read is short and ranked.
Cheap page-change trackers fire an alert every time a pixel shifts, so you learn to ignore them. RivalDesk reads each change the way an analyst would, decides whether it matters, and ranks it. Then it goes one step further and writes the counter-move, so the signal arrives as a decision you can act on, not a task you have to think through.
The same three tiers run through the briefing and the alerts, so you always know how urgently to read something.
Competitor moves that could cost you customers if you do not respond, like a rival undercutting your price or shipping a feature you sell on. These alert you in real time.
Shifts in the market that are good to stay on top of, like a new campaign or a content push. These roll up into your weekly briefing.
Smaller signals and background context that round out the picture without demanding action, kept on the record so nothing is lost.
A behind-the-scenes activity log shows every scan and analysis, so you always know the intelligence is current and nothing is being missed.
Each analyst records what it checked and when, so you can trace any signal back to the exact page and change that produced it.
Watch daily, a few times a week or weekly. The team reports on the days you choose, so intel arrives as a steady drip rather than a flood.
No signal is ever just a notification. Each one ends in a recommended counter-move you can act on. See a sample briefing →
Each analyst owns one dimension of your competitors, with its own sources and judgement. Meet a few of them.
Catches every price move, new tier, discount and trial the moment it changes. View profile →
Tracks what your rivals ship, from changelog entries to roadmap signals. View profile →