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The global people-powered competitive intelligence agency.

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Stop Watching Competitors—Start Predicting Them | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Most companies still treat competitive intelligence like a rearview mirror. They’re constantly summarising what’s already happened. Then, scrambling to react.

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13.08.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If your competitor had access to your internal meetings for a month, what would they exploit first?

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12.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Think Backwards to Beat Your Competitors | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Most strategic planning efforts are flawed. Not because leaders are dumb. Not because teams don’t care. It’s broken because everyone is addicted to forward-thinking.

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08.08.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Competitive intel is useless unless it's available and not boring. Get it in front of sales, product, and execs with one sharp takeaway they can act on today.

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07.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Human Signals in Competitive Intelligence: "Yeah, yeah, yeah" | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Human Signals in Competitive Intelligence: "Yeah, yeah, yeah"

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07.08.2025 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Facts were to be faced, not fought.

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06.08.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Competitor Moves Don't Show Up in Dashboards | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Facts don’t lie. Statistics speak for themselves. But they don’t tell you what’s on your competitors’ minds or what they are going to do next.

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05.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you can Google it, scrape it, AI it or summarise it with a button, so can your competitor. That’s not a differentiator. That’s a trap.

The Fluff-Free Global People Powered Competitive Intelligence Agency | www.octopusintelligence.com

01.08.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Your Competitive Intelligence May Not be Good Enough | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

But if that’s all you do, you’re not leading—you’re following. And worse, you’re building your roadmap based on what others are doing, not where the market is heading.
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31.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What if the real threat to you isn’t your biggest competitor, but the assumptions your leadership hasn’t questioned in years?

Fluff-Free Global People Powered Competitive Intelligence Agency | www.octopusintelligence.com

31.07.2025 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Broken First Impression: B2B Tech's Automation Addiction | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Here’s something we keep seeing over and over again in our work across B2B SaaS. They don’t talk to people. Sorry, we mean they don’t WANT to talk to people.

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30.07.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Buy your competitor’s product, call their sales team, and sit through their onboarding—there’s no substitute for feeling their customer experience firsthand.

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30.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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No competitive advantage if they are looking at the same Dashboard | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

No competitive advantage if they are looking at the same Dashboard

Let’s call this what it is: many doing “competitive intelligence” today are stuck in amateur hour.

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Fluff-Free Global People Powered Competitive Intelligence Agency

29.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Human Signals in Competitive Intelligence: "Yeah, yeah, yeah" | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Human Signals in Competitive Intelligence: "Yeah, yeah, yeah"

To an inexperienced eye, it sounds like confirmation. Especially if it’s something you want to hear.

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The Global People-Powered Competitive Intelligence Agency

28.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What are the ways that competitive intelligence can be gathered? | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

What are the ways that competitive intelligence can be gathered?

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People-Powered #CompetitiveIntelligence #enablement #insight

26.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Which assumption about your market would hurt the most if it turned out to be wrong?

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25.07.2025 08:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What blind spot are your competitors betting you’ll keep ignoring?

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25.07.2025 08:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop treating competitive intelligence like a scavenger would. Hunting for what's easy to find. Build your edge by obsessing over what's missing and why. The real signal isn't in the press release—it's in the press release that never came out.

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25.07.2025 07:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Advanced Pricing Strategies: Using competitive price analysis | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Advanced Pricing Strategies: Using competitive price analysis

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People-Powered #CompetitiveIntelligence #enablement #insight

24.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What would you do if your biggest competitor suddenly went out of business?

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23.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Competitor Insight Strategies and Competitor Analysis Frameworks | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Competitor Insight Strategies and Competitor Analysis Frameworks

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BS free #CompetitiveIntelligence #enablement #insight

22.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Recruit industry freelancers and consultants as short-term advisors. They rotate across clients and spot trend patterns before full-timers do.

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21.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Competitive Market Analysis Framework: An Approach to Gaining an Edge | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Competitive Market Analysis Framework

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19.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In what context would this situation look right?

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18.07.2025 07:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Competitor Performance Benchmarking: A Strategic Guide to Outranking Rivals | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Competitor Performance Benchmarkinghttps://www.octopusintelligence.com/how-do-you-benchmark-against-competitors-a-guide-to-competitive-benchmark-analysis/

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17.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Human Signals in Competitive Intelligence: "Yeah, yeah, yeah" | By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency By Octopus Competitive Intelligence Agency

Human Signals in Competitive Intelligence: "Yeah, yeah, yeah"

To an inexperienced eye, it sounds like confirmation. Especially if it’s something you want to hear.

www.octopusintelligence.com/...

People-Powered Competitive Intelligence

16.07.2025 09:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feature gaps don’t kill deals. 

Narrative gaps do. 

 Competitor benchmarking isn’t about copying features. 

 It’s about outthinking how they’re sold. 

 Want to do it right? 

 👉 DM us or visit www.octopusintelligence.com

16.07.2025 09:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

30 days later

 ✅ Demo-to-close rate up 22% 
 ✅ Feature adoption jumped 
 ✅ Competitor FUD slowed down 

 The product didn’t change. 

The story did. 

 Benchmarking made the difference.

16.07.2025 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We helped rework the narrative: 

— Swapped tech jargon for impact 
— Built objection-handling into the demo 
— Trained AEs on competitive reframes  
— Highlighted the cost of not switching

16.07.2025 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Meanwhile, our client’s pitch was stuck in the weeds. 

“Supports API v2.3 with SSO fallback and dynamic logic mapping.”

Accurate. 

 But it didn’t land with buyers.

16.07.2025 09:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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