RivalSense

Monitor any company with AI. Receive weekly curated updates.

5.0•4 reviews•

327 followers

Monitor any company with AI. Receive weekly curated updates.

5.0•4 reviews•

327 followers

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RivalSense monitors companies and creates a weekly AI-curated email on the most important things that have happened to the companies you are interested in. It can be used to monitor: 1️⃣ competitors 2️⃣ key accounts 3️⃣ your own company

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Launch tags:SaaS•Artificial Intelligence•Business Intelligence

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Hey PH builder community - happy to launch RivalSense. It is a self-serve product with a 14-day free trial available to everyone. We are here for your feedback and suggestions. WHY WE BUILT RIVALSENSE How often have you heard these 2 mutually contradictory pieces of startup advice? It's a paradox. (1) Focus on your users, not on your competition (2) A great founder should have strong knowledge of the market - what everyone is building, how everyone is acquiring users, who are they partnering with I was fed up with hearing these two when building my previous startup - I think there is a grain of truth in both. Of course, users are the most important, but there is value in having good awareness of what your competitors are doing. Even following your existing B2B clients can be hard, because you do not want to spend your day Googling different companies and checking their X and Linkedin posts. We wanted to build something that resolves this paradox. Yes, I want to learn what my competitors or key accounts are doing, but I don't want to spend more than 5 minutes per week doing this. HOW RIVALSENSE WORKS RivalSense sends you a weekly AI-curated email newsletter highlighting the most important insights uncovered about the companies you are interested in. The newsletter primarily focuses on things with commercial significance - pricing changes, new product features, new partnerships, changes in tech stack, new hires, content marketing initiatives, financial filings and more. Some cool examples of insight types: 🌐 Small, important changes in company websites https://rivalsense.co/i/RPoBIOD0... 𝕏 Public Linkedin or X posts from company employees https://rivalsense.co/i/bMGMrZAW... 🗞️ Interesting mentions in media of the company, company founders or beneficial owners https://rivalsense.co/i/UFMrWj7A... 🤝🏻 Public info on employees joining or leaving the company https://rivalsense.co/i/KawrXteQ... 📄 Public job listings https://rivalsense.co/i/MKSDexyv...  Changes in company App Stores pages / Github repos / Government registers https://rivalsense.co/i/mggoUeo5... We were inspired by the Morning Brew newsletter and The Economist Espresso news briefing. A short, clean, curated newsletter that can be read by a busy founder or executive in 5 minutes or less. The core innovation behind the product is to use the possibilities of LLMs. We want to not not simply provide a long list of keyword mentions, but to filter out the noise and only show valuable, actionable insights, presented in short, readable bullet points. HOW TO GET STARTED Everyone can enjoy a 2 week long free trial of RivalSense. No card required. During this trial, you will receive 3 weekly email updates. To get started, head to the RivalSense website and click “Start free trial”. You will then have to input at least 4 companies you are interested in following, as well as provide your email. Once that is done, you will receive your first insight email the next day! If you like what you see in the product, you will be able to choose to start your regular RivalSense subscription. That will also unlock additional RivalSense features, like multiple email recipients and a Slack integration. Feel free to explore our Pricing plans once you have started your free trial. Looking forward to getting honest feedback from the Product Hunt community! We are here to improve our product!

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2yr ago

Databar.ai

@martins_vaivars very clever solution to a real founder's dilemma! Great to see that you're not just doing basic keyword monitoring, but using LLMs to actually provide commercially significant changes (pricing updates, new features, etc.). That's powerful! Congrats on the launch!

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@jan_ber Appreciate it, Jan! I think that is one of the most powerful innovations of RivalSense - noticing and providing commercial interpretation for website changes. For example, we have found things like: (a) a new vendor added to Privacy Policy, (b) new, unexpected tech stack requirements added to a Developer job listing, (c) changes to the required fields in the signup funnel

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2yr ago

@martins_vaivars So Good!! I just wonder about the frequency of the updates - How often does it look into my competitors' activities? how often do I get updated? In my case, I check for competitor activities and those activities are not all created equal. There are some thing, like them releasing a new product/feature or them pushing a promotion or limited-time deal. These are more time-sensitive which may require us to react tactically -just an example-. Is there a way to set certain events as "notify me daily". and other categories as "notify me monthly" or something like that?

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@maru_rivera1 Thanks, interesting feedback. We currently do everything once a week, but could introduce an additional plan for daily updates - this has been a request from some of the first users. But such a plan will have to be more expensive because of higher data processing / AI model costs.

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@maru_rivera1 But interesting points, especially about the UI approach with different alert frequencies for different types of events! Thank you!

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2yr ago

Vela Partners

Nice! Do you provide an API that is ingestable with certain attributes or relationships? Such as "Launch" attribute to check all companies that launched this week. Or "Acquired an enterprise customer" attribute?

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@yigit Hi Yigit - thanks for the question! We currently do not provide an API like that. But that is an interesting idea, since we do have a lot of data on companies that our users are following with our platform.

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2yr ago

Very cool project! Congrats on the launch! - Curious if you can give a bit more details on the "80+ data sources" you're using? - For company website monitoring, do you monitor all the pages or just the homepage? For example would it detect a pricing change?

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@sdubois Thank you, Sebastian! Sources include things like - business databases, government registers (in countries or US states that have them), company websites, different social media sources, Google sources, news outlets and others. Regarding website monitoring - we currently look at the landing page and the pages that the landing page is linking to. Usually Pricing is captured by this search! I would recommend you to give the 14-day free trial a go. You will quickly see if we capture the types of insights that you are interested in.

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2yr ago

Great idea and elegantly deployed! I'm interested more in the current and planned capabilities in terms of identifying other alternative or competing companies to the ones that I could select as primary targets. Is this something that is/would be possible, or this is out of scope for this product?

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@dzintars_kalnins Thank you, Dzintars - we have been playing around with suggesting you different companies to follow, but have not started building that yet. It actually is quite a tricky problem. Suggesting some companies is easy, but suggesting highly relevant companies is hard. Will try to solve this for our users! :)

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2yr ago

Have been using it for a month or so. Very impressed with the results and summary you can get. Saves a ton of time, completely eliminates Google Alerts. A tip for users - why not add your own domain/product to RivalSense just to understand what competition sees about you?

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@ingus_rukis Appreciate the feedback, Ingus! Agreed - following your own company can be interesting, since you can see your own public footprint. If you have several teammates, you can see what they are up to. And sometimes you can see how other stakeholders (your clients, vendors, media, regulators) are responding to what you are doing.

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2yr ago

Lokalise

We've known the product and the team already for some time. Using theirs is the easiest way to roll out market and competitor inteligence for your whole team 🥰 My only regret was that we had to use much heavier products in the past 😁

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@petr_antropov1 Thank you, Petr, for being one of the early believers. That was one of our key concerns - how can we use LLMs to create a lightweight, simple product that still gets the job done for monitoring companies, like competitors or key accounts.

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2yr ago

Salesforge

Absolutely crazy good product, especially like in my case when I have 100+ competitors to follow. Getting a digest on the latest in a single email means I'm not missing out. Make sure you're not missing out!

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2yr ago

RivalSense

Maker

@franksondors Thank you for the feedback! Yes, one of the main features of the product is filtering out the noise and only showing you insights that are commercially important. Even with 4 competitors / key accounts that is a problem. With 100+ companies, the problem is unmanageable - you will not check the Linkedin / Twitter feeds of all these companies.

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2yr ago

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RivalSense is highly praised for its ability to efficiently monitor companies and competitors, providing users with detailed insights that are often missed by other tools like Google Alerts. Users appreciate its well-structured output and the time it saves in tracking public announcements and media coverage. Many find it indispensable for managing information on multiple companies, with one user noting the challenge of gathering such data manually. Overall, RivalSense is seen as a powerful tool for staying informed about key accounts and competitive landscapes.

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