Competitive intelligence for startups
Competitive intelligence for startups — without a CI team
You don't have an analyst to watch the market for you. Solvenq researches your rivals, cites every claim, and pings you only when something material changes.
Free to try · No card · No sales call
Why startups use Solvenq
At a startup, competitive intelligence is usually a browser tab someone forgets to check. There's no analyst, no research budget, and no time to read a rival's changelog every week. Solvenq is built for exactly that gap: seed a competitor and it researches the live web, returns findings that each cite a named public source, and then keeps watching so you hear about a pricing change or a launch when it happens — not when a prospect brings it up on a call. Every claim shows its receipts, so you can move on it without second-guessing where it came from.
What Solvenq does for startups
No analyst required
Seed a rival's name or URL and Solvenq does the research — reading live pages, pricing, and public signals — so a founder or PMM can run CI without hiring for it.
Cited findings you can act on
Every finding links to the named public source it came from, with a confidence badge — so you're deciding on evidence, not a chatbot's guess.
One ranked move at a time
Solvenq turns findings into a prioritized next action priced against your own numbers, so a small team knows what's worth doing first.
Watches so you don't have to
Put your top rivals on Radar and Solvenq re-checks them on a cadence, alerting you only when something material moved.
How it works
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Seed your closest rivals
Add the two or three competitors you actually lose deals to — a name or a URL is enough.
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Get a cited Dossier
Solvenq researches each one and hands back a shareable report where every claim shows its source.
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Act, then keep watch
Take the ranked Move, then leave Radar on so the next change finds you instead of the other way around.
A week with Solvenq, for startups
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Monday — read the Brief
Open the Monday Brief over coffee: what changed across your tracked rivals last week, each item with its receipt. Most weeks this is the entire check-in — five minutes, done.
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When something moved — Sweep it
A rival changed pricing or shipped something notable? Run a Sweep on them. Solvenq reads the live web and returns cited findings on what they did and what it touches.
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Read the Dossier, weigh the Move
The findings land in the rival's Dossier next to everything already known, marked new or changed. Moves ranks the recommended response, priced against your own numbers.
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Decide once, log it
Take the move or consciously skip it — either way the decision is logged, so next quarter you can see what competitive responses actually returned.
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The rest of the week — nothing
Radar keeps re-checking on its cadence. No alert means it checked and nothing material moved — silence is information, and your week stays yours.
What the free Exposure Audit gives startups
The free tier is an Exposure Audit of your own startup: Solvenq researches your business the way it would research a rival — from live public sources, with every finding cited — and shows you what a competitor, an investor, or a prospect doing diligence can see. For an early-stage company, that outside-in view is usually the first honest answer to "how visible are we, really?"
It costs nothing, needs no card and no sales call, and seeds your workspace: the same profile the audit builds becomes the baseline your first real Sweep compares against when you're ready to point Solvenq at a rival.
A worked example
A three-person devtools startup seeds its two closest rivals. The first Sweep surfaces that one rival's changelog has gone quiet for a quarter while its careers page filled with enterprise sales roles — a cited hint that they're moving upmarket. The ranked Move: tighten self-serve onboarding copy for the small-team segment the rival is drifting away from, priced against the startup's own trial-conversion numbers.
The founder takes the move, logs it, and leaves Radar on a weekly cadence. Six weeks later the alert fires: the rival raised its entry price. The Brief carries the receipt, sales copy is updated the same day, and the next three sign-ups mention price. Total time spent on competitive intelligence that month: under two hours.
The pattern generalizes: seed the rivals that matter, let the Brief carry the quiet weeks, and spend attention only when something moves. For a team with no spare headcount, the discipline isn't doing more competitive intelligence — it's doing none at all until the evidence says it's worth an hour.
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FAQ
- What does the free Exposure Audit actually show?
- It runs Solvenq's cited research on your own business: what public sources say about you, where you're visible and where you're absent, and what a rival running the same research would learn. Every finding cites its source, and the audit seeds the profile your later Sweeps compare against.
- How is this different from paying a freelancer for a one-off competitive analysis?
- A one-off analysis is a snapshot that starts aging the day it's delivered. Solvenq's Dossier is living — it refreshes in place, marks what changed, and Radar keeps checking between refreshes — so you get the recurring loop, not a document.
- Which competitors should we seed first?
- The two or three you actually lose deals to — not the biggest names in the category. A short list keeps the Brief readable and the alerts material, and you can add or swap rivals as the market shifts. Depth of coverage beats breadth at this stage.
- We're too small for a competitive-intelligence tool — is this overkill?
- It's the opposite. Solvenq is aimed at teams with no dedicated CI analyst: you seed a rival and it does the research and the monitoring for you, so a founder or a single PMM can keep up with the market without it becoming a full-time job.
- Can I start without talking to sales?
- Yes. There's a free tier — run a free Exposure Audit of your own business and see a cited Dossier without a card or a sales call.
- How do I know the findings are accurate?
- Every finding cites the named public source it came from and carries a confidence badge, and the source is archived so the receipt still opens later. You're never asked to trust an unsourced summary.
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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.