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  "company_overview": {
    "name": "Competitor Name",
    "website": "https://competitor.com",
    "description": "...",
    "headquarters": "San Francisco, CA",
    "employee_count": 150,
    "founded_year": 2020
  },
  "positioning": {
    "positioning_statement": "...",
    "value_proposition": "...",
    "target_market": "...",
    "core_features": ["feature1", "feature2"]
  },
  "pricing": {
    "model": "Subscription",
    "tiers": [...],
    "entry_price": 49,
    "unit_economics": "..."
  },
  "swot_analysis": {
    "strengths": [...],
    "weaknesses": [...],
    "opportunities": [...],
    "threats": [...]
  },
  "strategic_insights": {
    "key_takeaways": [...],
    "competitive_threats": [...],
    "opportunities_to_exploit": [...],
    "watch_areas": [...]
  }
}

# Competitive Intelligence Report: Competitor Name

**Analysis Date:** November 18, 2025
**Analysis Depth:** Deep Intelligence
**Analyst:** Claude with Competitor Analyzer Skill

## Executive Summary

[3-5 paragraph overview of key findings]

## Company Overview

- **Headquarters:** Location
- **Team Size:** Employee count
- **Funding:** Round and amount
- **Founded:** Year

## Positioning & Market Approach

### Value Proposition
[Their core pitch and positioning]

### Target Market
[Who they sell to and why]

### Key Features
1. Feature 1
2. Feature 2
3. Feature 3

## Pricing Analysis

[Detailed pricing breakdown with tier comparison]

## Leadership Team

### Founders
[Founder profiles with backgrounds]

### C-Level Executives
[Executive team analysis]

## SWOT Analysis

### Strengths (What They Do Well)
- Strength 1
- Strength 2

### Weaknesses (Where They Struggle)
- Weakness 1
- Weakness 2

### Opportunities (What We Can Exploit)
- Opportunity 1
- Opportunity 2

### Threats (What We Need to Watch)
- Threat 1
- Threat 2

## Strategic Insights

### Key Takeaways
1. Takeaway 1
2. Takeaway 2
3. Takeaway 3

### Competitive Threats
1. Threat 1
2. Threat 2

### Opportunities to Exploit
1. Opportunity 1
2. Opportunity 2
3. Opportunity 3

### Watch Areas
- Area 1 to monitor quarterly
- Area 2 to monitor quarterly

# Competitive Intelligence Report: TechStartup Inc.

**Analysis Date:** November 18, 2025
**Analysis Depth:** Deep Intelligence

## Executive Summary

TechStartup Inc. is a Series B SaaS company ($25M raised) targeting mid-market
companies with an API-first development platform. They've grown from 50 to 150
employees in the past year, indicating strong traction. Their pricing is
aggressive (20% below market average), suggesting a land-grab strategy. The
founding team has strong technical credibility (ex-Google, ex-Stripe) but
limited enterprise sales experience, which may constrain upmarket expansion.

## Key Findings

### Strengths
- **Developer Experience**: Excellent API documentation, 7K GitHub stars
- **Pricing Advantage**: 20% below market with generous free tier
- **Technical Team**: Strong engineering pedigree, fast feature velocity

### Weaknesses
- **Enterprise Features**: Limited SSO, RBAC, audit logs
- **Sales Capacity**: Small sales team (5 people) for enterprise push
- **Documentation Gaps**: Missing advanced use cases, limited video content

### Opportunities to Exploit
- **Enterprise Focus**: We can win upmarket with better security/compliance
- **Customer Support**: Their response time is 24-48hrs vs our 2-4hrs
- **Integration Ecosystem**: We have 3x more pre-built integrations

### Competitive Threats
- **Growth Velocity**: Adding 10 engineers/month, feature parity coming fast
- **Brand Momentum**: Strong developer community, high social engagement
- **Recent Funding**: $25M runway enables aggressive pricing and hiring

## Strategic Recommendations

1. **Accelerate enterprise feature development** - They're 12-18 months behind
2. **Double down on customer support** - Clear differentiation opportunity
3. **Build developer community** - Match their GitHub/Twitter presence
4. **Monitor their Series C** - Next funding round will fuel upmarket push

## Watch Areas (Quarterly Review)

- Employee count growth (tracking at 10/month currently)
- GitHub star growth (2K stars in last quarter)
- Pricing changes (they're currently underpriced)
- Leadership hires (need enterprise sales VP)