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Competitor Research Brief Builder

A focused brief builder that names the question, competitors, sources, freshness, confidence, caveats, and required output before research begins.

What it does

The live route builds a reusable competitor-research brief. It does not search the market, monitor competitors, or generate findings. The separate Website Fitness route can scan one public page for observable on-page signals.

How it works

  1. 01Describe the business, market, named competitors, decisions, and public signals that matter.
  2. 02The live builder turns those inputs into a bounded research brief with sources and evidence requirements made explicit.
  3. 03Copy or email the brief for your own research, or enquire to agree a human research scope before any work or payment.

Pricing and access

Free brief builder and public-page scan

The current live route creates a research brief; it does not silently perform competitor research. A human review is available only by scoped enquiry.

  • Free: build, copy and export a structured competitor-research brief
  • Free: scan one public website page for observable conversion and trust signals
  • Optional review: sources, deliverable, turnaround and price confirmed before payment or work starts

Work is based on public sources and practical judgement. Outputs support decisions; they are not legal, procurement, investment, or financial advice.

Capabilities

  • Structured competitor-research question
  • Named competitor and market inputs
  • Public-source and evidence checklist
  • Decision, confidence, freshness, and caveat requirements
  • Copyable and emailable research brief
  • Separate link to the live single-page Website Fitness scan
  • Optional human research only after sources, deliverable, turnaround, and price are agreed

Use this when

  • You need to define competitor research tightly before anyone begins searching.
  • You want researchers or AI tools to use the same question, evidence standard, and decision boundary.
  • You want to judge whether a scoped human research job is worth commissioning.

Questions this helps answer

  • Which competitors and signals should be researched?
  • What sources and evidence would make the result trustworthy?
  • What decision will the research support?
  • Which caveats, confidence notes, and freshness checks must be included?

Best used in a full tab

The live brief builder is easier to complete and export from a full browser tab on smaller screens.

Open brief builder

The embedded route creates a reusable research brief. It names the work still required and links to the separate free public-page scan; it does not claim completed research.

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