Data collection

Continuous visibility into what rivals actually do

Track competitor pricing, content, hiring and positioning over time.

Daily

collection cadence

69

markets

0

attribution to your ASN

The problem

Competitive intelligence assembled by hand goes stale within a week and cannot be trended. The signals that matter — pricing changes, new markets, hiring patterns, content velocity, ad spend — only mean something as a time series.

Many of these signals are also geo-specific, and some competitors actively serve different content to traffic from rival companies' known IP ranges.

The solution

Automated collection from neutral residential exits produces a consistent longitudinal record with no attribution back to your organisation.

Because collection is parameterised by geography, you see the competitor's positioning in every market rather than just your own.

Mechanics

How proxies solve it

1

No corporate attribution

Requests do not originate from your ASN, so there is nothing to identify or filter.

2

Every market, same job

Run the identical collection across each geography the competitor operates in.

3

Consistent longitudinal series

Daily automated collection produces trends that manual checks never will.

4

Breadth of signal

Pricing, careers pages, changelogs, docs, ad copy and review velocity all in one pipeline.

Workflow

How we would build it

  1. 1

    Choose signals that move

    Pricing pages, job listings, changelogs and ad copy change often enough to be informative. Homepages rarely do.

  2. 2

    Diff, do not snapshot

    Store content hashes and alert on change. Nobody reads a daily archive.

  3. 3

    Collect per market

    Positioning frequently differs by country. One geography is one data point, not the picture.

  4. 4

    Keep it lawful and public

    Public pages only. No authentication, no circumvention, no personal data.

FAQ

Competitor research questions

Reading publicly accessible pages is generally lawful, but their terms of service, any personal data involved and your jurisdiction all matter. Take legal advice for your specific programme.
Residential, mainly because it removes any link to your corporate network. Datacenter works if you have confirmed the target does not filter hosting ranges.
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