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Your competitors move every week. You find out quarterly.

Watchtower reads your competitors' websites, pricing pages, changelogs, job posts, reviews and funding news — every week. You get one page: what changed, what it means, and the source behind every claim. No dashboard you'll never open. A brief you actually read.

Watchtower — weekly sweep · 6 competitors Sweeping 282 sources
Pricing Product Hiring Reviews Funding
Northlane · Caskwise · Fieldstone · Vantage Loop · +2
Sites, pricing pages, changelogs, job boards, review profiles, registries — swept daily.
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Listening on 282 sources…
first events incoming.
Weekly digest — Mon 7:00 This week: 4 pricing moves · 2 product launches · 11 relevant hires · 1 leadership exit — condensed to one page. 3 min read · every claim linked
Events detected: 0 Sources checked: 0 Red alerts: 0 Manual stalking skipped: ≈6 hrs
47
sources watched per competitor on average — sites, pricing, changelogs, job boards, review profiles, registries.
1 page
every Monday, 7am. The whole brief. Read it with coffee; know the week before it starts.
6 hrs
of manual stalking you skip weekly. The tabs, the diffs, the screenshots, the forgetting.
100%
of claims with a linked, archived source. If we can't show it, we don't say it.

The problem

You find out from a prospect on a call. Three weeks late.

Competitors don't announce their moves to you. They change a page quietly, post a job, ship a feature — and by the time it reaches you, it's already in their sales deck.

01 / The customer courier

Your competitor raised prices on a Tuesday. You heard about it from a prospect, on a call, three weeks later — while quoting against a pricing page that no longer exists.

02 / The alert tax

Google Alerts sent you 400 mentions of the word "northlane" this month. A podcast transcript. A kayak-rack company in Oregon. The one pricing change that mattered wasn't in any of them.

03 / The 2023 doc

Somewhere there's a competitive-analysis doc with a SWOT grid and a logo wall. It was written in 2023. Two of the logos have since raised, repriced, and pivoted.

How it works

Two weeks to a baseline. Then one page, every Monday.

Define who matters

Week 1. You name three to six competitors. Together we write the signal map: pricing moves, feature ships, key hires, review shifts, funding — and, just as important, what counts as noise.

The baseline sweep

Week 2. A full map of where everyone stands today: current pricing, feature set, hiring velocity, review scores. Every future change is measured against this, so "what changed" is a fact, not an impression.

The weekly brief

From then on: one page, every Monday, 7am — what changed, what it means, the source. Red-level events like a pricing move or a leadership exit don't wait for Monday. You hear within hours.

The difference

Alerts tell you a word appeared. Watchtower tells you what moved.

Same competitor, same week. Left is what a keyword alert hands you. Right is what lands in your inbox with Watchtower.

✕ Google Alerts / news tools

"400 new mentions of 'northlane' this month: a podcast transcript, a job-aggregator scrape, a kayak-rack company in Oregon with the same name."

— Somewhere in there, a pricing page changed. Which page, from what to what, and why it matters: not included.

⚠ Keyword volume instead of meaning. You stopped opening these in March.
✓ Watchtower

"Northlane raised Team from $29 to $39/seat. First price move in two years — they're confident, or churning."

— Diff attached: $29 → $39. Source: northlane.com/pricing, archived 21 Jul, 09:14 UTC.

✓ The change, the diff, the so-what, the source. Four things you can act on; nothing you have to dig for.

Pricing

Fixed monthly fee. First brief before the first invoice.

No per-seat pricing, no per-alert meters. You know the number before we start, and it doesn't grow when the market gets interesting.

Setup + first month
$4,500 fixed fee
  • 3–6 competitors onboarded with a written signal map — what counts, what's noise
  • Baseline sweep: where every competitor stands today, archived
  • Source index across sites, pricing, changelogs, jobs, reviews, registries
  • Weekly brief starts — one page, every Monday, 7am
  • Red-level alerts from day one — hours, not weeks
↳ Your first brief lands before the first invoice.
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Ongoing
$750 /month
  • The same one-page brief, every Monday, 7am
  • Red-level alerts within hours of detection
  • Add or swap competitors as your market moves — one email
  • Cancel any month; your source archive leaves with you
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§ The guarantee: every claim in every brief carries a linked, verifiable source — an archived page, a filing, a review snapshot. If a brief ever contains a claim we can't point to, that month is free. The receipts are the product.

Questions

Asked before anyone hands over a watchlist.

Is this legal? How do you actually get the data?

Public sources only, and I'll say that plainly: public websites, public pricing pages, public changelogs, public job boards, public review sites, public filings. No logins, no scraping behind authentication, no private data, no pretexting calls. Everything your competitors chose to publish — read closely, archived, cited. If a source ever restricts access or objects, it comes off the list the same day.

How many competitors can I track?

Three to six. That's the range where a one-page brief stays one page. Fewer than three and you're under-watching your market; more than six and you need an intelligence function, not a brief — I can scope that separately, but it isn't this offer.

How fast are the red-level alerts?

Red events — pricing moves, layoffs, leadership exits, security incidents — go out within hours of detection. Sources are swept daily, red-flag sources more often. The Monday brief is the summary; it is not the speed limit.

Can I add or remove competitors later?

Any month. Adding one takes about a week: baseline sweep, source index, then it joins the brief. Removing one is an email. The watchlist is yours, and it changes when your market does.

What happens in a week when nothing changes?

The brief says so, and shows the work: sources checked, nothing moved. A confirmed quiet week is information — their attention is somewhere else. In practice, no tracked competitor has stayed quiet for more than four weeks.

Fit

Who this is for — and who should keep their money.

✓ Built for

  • Founders and product leads in crowded markets, where positioning moves monthly
  • Agencies tracking clients' competitors as a service — the brief can carry your brand
  • Teams whose "competitive analysis" is a doc nobody updates
  • Anyone who's been blindsided by a competitor's pricing move on a sales call

✕ Not for

  • Anyone wanting to scrape private data or anything behind a login — I won't do it
  • Companies with no real competitors — rare, lucky, and not in need of me
  • Teams who want another live dashboard to not-open instead of a brief to read
  • Markets where nothing changes for years at a time

Next step

Name your competitors. I'll show you what they did last week.

One email with your three to six competitors. Within a business day I'll tell you what's publicly watchable, what your first brief would likely contain, and whether Watchtower is worth $750 a month to you. If it isn't, I'll say that instead.

Replies within one business day. Your first brief lands before the first invoice.