Competitive Intelligence

Your competitor was in the room. Nobody told you.

Add competitors to any offering in Kandir and Competitive Intelligence goes to work immediately — continuously watching their news, launches, announcements, and moves for the ones that touch your accounts. Each signal arrives with the part that actually helps: why it matters to this deal, and what to do about it.

Name your competitors. That's the setup.

Open an offering, add the competitors you actually run into, and you're done — it takes a couple of minutes and then runs in the background forever. No keyword lists to maintain, no alert rules, no weekly digest to skim. The more complete your offerings and competitor list, the sharper the signals get, because Kandir knows which moves touch something you're trying to sell and which are just noise from a company that happens to share your category.

What Kandir watches them for
Product launches and announcements
The feature that just became the thing your buyer asks you about.
Case studies and customer wins
Especially the ones in your account's industry, doing your use case.
Webinars and events
Your champion getting invited somewhere you weren't.
Pricing and packaging moves
The change that reframes every cost conversation you're in.
Funding, filings, and press
Public commitments that tell you where they're headed next.
Set it once. It doesn't need you again.

A headline isn't intelligence. A play is.

Knowing a competitor shipped something is the easy half. The hard half is what it means for the deal in front of you — whether it threatens the renewal, opens a gap you can name, or changes nothing at all. Every Competitive Intelligence signal arrives scored against the offering and opportunity it touches, with the reason it matters and the counter to run. You're not handed a link and left to work out the implication yourself.

Anatomy of one signal
What happened
A competitor published a case study with a utility running your exact use case.
Why it matters here
It maps to Outage Management — your open renewal — and to the buyer already evaluating both of you.
What to do
Raise it first, on your terms, before it arrives as a question you're answering cold.
Delivered to your signal feed and pinned to the account plan. Not a newsletter you'll archive.

Never the last to know what you're up against.

When a customer brings up a competitor and you're hearing it for the first time, you're improvising — and they can tell. When you already know, the same moment does the opposite: it reads as command of your market, and the conversation moves to your framing instead of theirs. Same information, opposite outcome, decided entirely by who knew first.

The competitor comes up mid-call
Hearing it for the first time
"I'll look into that and follow up." Your customer already formed an opinion, and you just confirmed you weren't tracking it.
→ You're playing defense.
With Competitive Intelligence
You saw it the day it landed, with what it means for this deal. You raise the trade-off before they do.
→ You set the frame.

Stop finding out
in the loss review.