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Competitor profiles

Builds a short, factual profile of the local competitors you lose to and turns it into three decisions. Use it when you keep losing estimates and want to know what you are up against.

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What it fixes

Guessing what a rival charges or promises leads to a wrong price, a weak offer or a fight you do not need. We collect public facts only: price signals, proof, service areas, ads and sites, each with a date and a source. We lay them next to your business, mark opinion as opinion, and rank three moves. We judge those moves by booked estimates against your baseline.

What the research says

  1. 74%

    74% of consumers use two or more review sites before choosing a local business. Buyers compare you before they call.

    BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey (2025)
  2. 66%

    In a survey of 400 homeowners, 66% said they would gather three quotes from HVAC companies before choosing one.

    ACHR News and Clear Seas Research (BNP Media), Steps HVAC contractors can take to win the bid (2023)
  3. 63%

    63% of consumers would lose trust in a business after seeing mostly negative written reviews. Buyers read what others say about you.

    BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2025 (2023)

What's inside

  1. 01

    Name the competitors you lose to

  2. 02

    Collect public facts: prices, proof, areas, ads, site

  3. 03

    Date every fact and keep its source

  4. 04

    Put you and them side by side

  5. 05

    Rank three moves with a reason and an owner

  6. 06

    Mark what we could not verify

See it in action

You ask
We keep losing driveway paving bids in Naperville to two companies. What are they doing that we aren't?
The playbook delivers

A one-page profile for each rival covers positioning, price signals, proof, service areas, ads and site, with each fact dated and sourced. A side-by-side table puts you and both rivals on the same rows. Three moves are ranked with reasons and an owner. Open items list facts we could not verify, such as their warranty terms, and how to check them.

At $10M and up

How it runs in a larger operation

At scale, you face different rivals in each market. Each location gets its own dated profile of price signals, proof, ads and service areas. Leadership sees where a rival has moved and the one response a named person approves.

  • Rival profiles kept per market, dated and sourced
  • Moves by rivals flagged in the daily readout
  • Responses approved by a named owner
Talk to us about running it at scale

For executives Team Skill Upgrade

Put our playbooks inside the AI your team already uses.

Three of the playbooks we run for service businesses, written so your team can paste them into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot and use them the same afternoon. Free for owners and operators.

  1. 15 minSetup, inside the AI tools your team already pays for. No new software.
  2. 3Playbooks: speed to lead, landing page conversion and review generation.
  3. 1 ruleEvery result counts in your CRM, and a person approves what goes out.

Get the Team Skill Upgrade

Three playbooks, one email, setup in 15 minutes.

Includes an optional 20-minute call to install one playbook with your team. One email with the pack, then occasional notes from Timur. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.

Works with the AI tools your team already uses

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Copilot
  • Perplexity
  • Grok
  • Meta AI
  • Le Chat

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, Meta AI and Le Chat are trademarks of their owners. The playbooks work with them. No endorsement is implied.

Questions owners ask

Do you contact competitors?

No. We use public sources only and never pose as a customer.

Can we put a competitor comparison on our site?

Only when it is true, fair and you approve it.

How current are the facts?

Each fact carries a date. Prices and ads change, so we recheck before you act.

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