Entry offer now begins at the paid team tier.
Independent research on one question at a time
Before you change the price,
build the feature, or rewrite the pitch —
know what you're reacting to.
Tell us the decision you're trying to make. RivalFrame investigates the competitors, buyers and market changes behind it, separates what the public record can prove from what it cannot, and tells you what we think you should do next.
24h from confirmed scopePublic evidenceHuman-reviewedNo setup
RivalFrame / research desklive brief
Reviewing current market evidence
Time-to-value complaints cluster around setup and migration.
The competitor appears to be moving up-market.
Pattern detected
Time-to-value is becoming the battleground.
Pricing shift corroboratedObserved
Buyer complaint pattern repeatedObserved
Up-market motion supported by hiringInferred
Lead with a 7-day proof of value. Hold price.
The useful gapNot another monitoring program.
Not another monitoring program.
One decision, properly worked.
Low-cost tools can watch competitors and enterprise platforms can run an ongoing compete program. RivalFrame is for the moment a real decision is waiting: one question, investigated against your context, with the trade-off and uncertainty made explicit.
Questions expensive to guess
Your team is already answering these. The problem is how.
A competitor cuts price. A feature suddenly appears everywhere. Sales keeps hearing the same objection. The dangerous question is not only what changed — it is whether that change should alter what you do.
Do we really need to lower our price?
One competitor move can look bigger than it is.
Are buyers choosing them because of product — or because they explain it better?
A messaging problem can masquerade as a roadmap problem.
Is this becoming table stakes, or are we about to copy a competitor for no reason?
Roadmap time is too expensive to follow noise.
Who is actually taking deals from us?
The obvious competitor list is often incomplete.
Did the market move, or did one loud competitor move?
Strategy should not be rewritten around one launch post.
Where is there room nobody is defending yet?
White space closes when someone names it first.
Signal → Evidence → Implication → Decision
One question. Four layers of clarity.
The same market signal is resolved into evidence, interpreted against your context, and turned into a recommendation. The goal is not more information. It is less uncertainty.
Start wider than the obvious competitors.
Pricing, positioning, launches, reviews, hiring, buyer language and substitutes all enter the frame before most of them are discarded.
A plausible claim is not enough.
Every material finding is checked for source, date and corroboration. Fact and interpretation stay visibly separate.
A change is not automatically a threat.
We work out which buyers, deals or segments it actually affects — and whether it changes your position at all.
You hired us for a recommendation.
The brief ends with what we would do, what we would not do yet, the trade-off, and what would make us change our mind.
What you receive
A brief you can forward without translating it first.
The answer comes first. Evidence stays attached underneath it. Observed facts, inference and open questions remain visibly different.
- Executive read
- Evidence ledger
- Competitive map
- Buyer pain signals
- Confidence labels
- Recommended actions
Why are we losing mid-market deals to Rival B?
Decision summary · public evidence reviewed across pricing, reviews, hiring and buyer discussion
You are not losing on features. You are losing on time-to-value.
Evidence ledger
Pricing pageFree tier removedObserved
ReviewsOnboarding complaints repeatingObserved
HiringEnterprise security roles ×3Inferred
Buyer forumsSeat pricing objection spreadingOpen question
Recommended move
Test a 7-day proof-of-value promise before committing roadmap capacity or changing list price.
Where RivalFrame fitsUse a platform when you need a program.
Use a platform when you need a program.
Use RivalFrame when you need an answer.
RivalFrameDIY AIEnterprise CI
Best whenA decision is waitingYou want to explore quicklyYou need continuous monitoring
Who does the thinkingRivalFrameYou doYour team, supported by the platform
UncertaintyObserved / inferred / openDepends on your processDepends on your program
CommitmentOne questionYour own timeOngoing system
Start small
Bring us the question that's holding up a decision.
Send the actual question, even if the wording is messy. RivalFrame first checks whether the public record can support a useful answer. If it can, we confirm scope and start. If it cannot, we tell you before you pay.
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Next step
Don't commission a research project. Send the question.
If it matters enough to argue about in the next meeting, it is probably worth investigating properly.