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Find out which competitor tool they run

The client sells software that replaces a tool prospects already run. We built detection that works out which competing tool an account uses from five public sources, writes it to the CRM only when confidence is high, and watches for competitor outages as a timing trigger.

Works ifYou replace a tool your buyers already run.

Built for · B2B software vendor · EU
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The system

~/builds/competitor-tool-detection
01Sources

Code

Public repos

GitHub

Hiring

Job posts

People

Profile skills

LinkedIn

Reviews

Review sites

G2

Proof

Case studies

Competitor mentions + evidence
02Reason

Stated

Named directly

Reviews and case studies name the vendor.

Inferred

From code and skills

Libraries and requirements point to the tool.

Resolve conflictsreason over the conflict
03Gate

Confidence

High only

Nothing weak reaches the CRM field.

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04Activate

CRM

Incumbent on the account

HubSpot
The incumbent, before the first call.

The signal

An account runs a competing tool, detected from code, jobs, skills, reviews or case studies. Or that competitor just had an outage.

Why it predicts a purchase

Knowing the incumbent turns a generic pitch into a replacement pitch with a concrete comparison. An outage is the week that comparison lands.

How it works

01

Look where engineers leave traces

Public repositories, job descriptions and profile skills name the libraries a team uses. Reviews and case studies name the vendor.

02

Explain the disagreements

When one source says tool A and another says tool B, the system reasons over the conflict instead of picking the first hit. The fix targeted inferred signals that were being ignored, and improved capture rate and confidence scoring.

03

Watch the competitor, not just the account

Competitor outages are monitored as a timing trigger.

Build notes

  • Documents attached to CRM records are a source too. A second flow reads them for competitor mentions whenever a new file lands.
  • A detection only fills the CRM field at high confidence. A wrong incumbent in the first line of an email ends the conversation.

Questions

Where can you see which tool a company uses?

Public code repositories, job descriptions and profile skills name the libraries. Review sites and case studies name the vendor. Keep the evidence so a rep can quote it.

Why only high-confidence detections?

A wrong incumbent in the first line of an email ends the conversation. Weak detections stay in the database, not in the CRM field.

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