Competitive intelligence for founders
Competitive intelligence for founders — know first, move first
Stay ahead of your market without living in it. Solvenq researches rivals, cites every claim, prices the next move against your numbers, and only interrupts you when it matters.
Free to try · No card · No sales call
Why founders use Solvenq
As a founder you need to know what the market is doing, but you can't spend your week reading competitors' changelogs. Solvenq gives you that awareness on tap: seed your rivals and it researches the live web, returns findings that each cite a named public source with a confidence badge, and turns them into a ranked next move priced against your own numbers — so competitive intelligence ends in a decision, not another dashboard. Then it keeps watching. Radar re-checks the market on a cadence and only interrupts you when something material moved, which means silence is information too: it checked, and nothing changed.
What Solvenq does for founders
Market awareness without the busywork
Seed your rivals once and Solvenq does the ongoing research and monitoring, so you stay current without adding a standing item to your week.
Evidence you can take to the board
Every finding cites its named public source and a confidence badge, and the source is archived — so the competitive picture you present is defensible.
Intelligence that ends in a decision
Moves turns findings into a ranked recommended action priced against your numbers, and the scoreboard tracks what each one returned.
Only interrupts when it matters
Radar alerts you on material change only — new pricing, a launch, an opening — so you're not babysitting a feed to stay informed.
How it works
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Seed your market
Add the competitors that matter; a name or URL is enough for Solvenq to start researching.
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Get the picture and the move
Review a cited Dossier and the ranked next move, priced against your own numbers.
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Let Radar keep watch
Leave it on and get pinged only when something material changes — otherwise, no news is good news.
A week with Solvenq, for founders
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Monday — five minutes with the Brief
The Monday Brief is the standing check-in: what moved across your rivals last week, each item with its receipt. Quiet week? You're done — that's the design.
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Something material? Sweep it
When a rival raises prices, ships, or repositions, run a Sweep. Cited findings on what happened and what it touches land in that rival's Dossier in minutes — not an afternoon of tabs.
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Take the move — or consciously don't
Moves ranks the recommended response and prices it against your own numbers, so the decision is sized in dollars, not vibes. Either way, it's logged.
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Check the scoreboard monthly
The ledger shows what each taken move was worth against what it returned — the difference between feeling responsive and knowing your responses pay.
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Trust the silence
Radar re-checks on cadence and interrupts only on material change. No alert means it looked and nothing moved — market awareness without a standing calendar item.
What the free Exposure Audit gives founders
The free Exposure Audit turns Solvenq's research engine on your own company: what a rival, an investor, or an enterprise buyer doing diligence can find out about you from public sources — cited, so you can see exactly where each impression comes from. Founders usually discover at least one thing they assumed was visible that isn't, or one thing they assumed was private that isn't.
It's free with no card and no sales call, and it seeds your operator profile — the baseline your rival Sweeps are priced and compared against later. Run it once and you'll know within minutes whether the cited-research format earns a place in your operating rhythm.
A worked example
A bootstrapped founder tracks three competitors. For two months the Monday Brief is quiet — Radar checks, nothing material, no interruptions. Then an alert: the largest rival announced a funding round, and the Sweep's cited findings show new job postings and a homepage pivot toward the founder's core segment within the same week.
Moves ranks the response: accelerate the two integrations that lock in the segment's stickiest accounts, priced against current expansion revenue. The founder takes the move, the board deck cites the Dossier's sources rather than a hunch, and when the rival's push arrives a quarter later, the moat is already dug. The whole loop cost one evening.
Nothing about it required becoming an analyst: the rival set was three names, the cadence was set once, and two quiet months cost nothing while confirming coverage. The expensive part of competitive intelligence — sustained attention — is exactly the part that got delegated.
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FAQ
- What happens when Radar finds nothing?
- Nothing — deliberately. No alert means Solvenq checked on schedule and nothing material changed, so silence is itself information. You get the confidence of coverage without a feed to babysit, and the check history is there if you want to verify it ran.
- Can I use this for board or fundraising prep?
- Yes — that's a common use. The Dossier's competitive picture is cited to named public sources with dates, so the market slide in your deck is defensible under questioning, and a refresh before the meeting brings it current instead of quarter-old.
- How current is the research when I run it?
- A Sweep reads the live web at run time — findings cite what sources say now, not what a model remembered from training. That's why claims carry dates, and why a refresh before a board meeting is worth the few minutes it takes.
- I don't have time to run competitive intelligence — how much work is this?
- Little ongoing effort by design. You seed your rivals once; Solvenq handles the research, hands you a ranked move, and then monitors with Radar, interrupting you only when something material changes. Staying informed doesn't become a recurring task.
- How is this different from just asking an AI chatbot about my competitors?
- A general chatbot answers from memory and rarely cites anything checkable. Solvenq researches the live web when you run it and cites every finding to a named public source with a confidence badge — so the picture is current and defensible, not a plausible guess.
- Does it tell me what to do, or just what happened?
- Both. Beyond the cited research, Moves ranks a recommended next action and prices it against your own numbers, and the scoreboard tracks potential versus realized impact — so intelligence turns into a decision.
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Put Solvenq on your market.
Start with a free Exposure Audit — see your business the way a rival does — then cited findings, ranked moves, and Solvenq watching for what changes next.