Map every competitor, their pricing, positioning, and moves, from 50+ live sources. Every claim source-linked.
Preuve AI is a startup validation tool that scans 50+ live data sources - including Crunchbase, Google Trends, Reddit, Product Hunt, and G2 - to generate a viability score, map up to 15 competitors with funding and pricing data, and surface blind spots before you build. Over 6,000+ startup ideas have been analyzed across 13 industries since 2026. According to CB Insights, 42% of startups fail because there is no market need - the blind spot Preuve AI catches. Free scans take 60 seconds. Full Founder Reports cost $29 one-time with a 14-day report guarantee.
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AI competitive intelligence in minutes with Preuve AI
Competitive intelligence is the practice of systematically mapping your competitors, their pricing, positioning, features, and market moves, so you can find the gap and defend it. Preuve AI runs AI competitive intelligence in minutes across 50+ live data sources including Crunchbase, G2, Reddit, and competitor pages. Free scan, $29 founder report. The output: a competitor map with pricing, positioning, and feature comparison, demand and community signals, market sizing, blind spots, and pivot options, with every claim linked to a public source. Unlike business intelligence dashboards on your own data, or a chatbot with no citations, every finding is verifiable.
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AI competitive intelligence with proof
10 AI agents. 50+ live sources. One score you can trust. Powered by Opus 4.8.
AI competitive intelligence in one scan. 10 AI agents pull live data from 50+ sources: competitor mapping with pricing and positioning, market sizing, demand and community signals, and trends. Every claim linked to its source.
No live data. The LLM generates agreeable analysis.
median ~78
0-29
1%
30-39
2%
40-49
4%
50-59
8%
60-69
15%
70-79
42%
80+
28%
Median: ~78-Feels good. Means nothing.
Preuve AI · 6,000+ ideas
Earn your score
10 AI agents. 50+ live sources. Every claim cross-checked and linked.
median ~55
0-29
1.2%
30-39
3.6%
40-49
25.1%
50-59
30.3%
60-69
21.5%
70-79
15.5%
80+
2.8%
18.3% score 70 or above. If yours does, it earned it.
Score distribution based on a rebuilt April 2026 benchmark set drawn from 4,000+ startup ideas analyzed by Preuve AI.
A low score isn't a rejection. It's a fix list.
What you can trust
Every number you cite holds up. No source, no funding figure in your report.
Every competitor you see is real. Look-alike domains and dead links never make it in.
You only act on what's proven. If the AI agents can't back a claim, it doesn't ship.
Why intel goes stale
Where founders get competitive intelligence wrong.
The competitor that kills you is rarely the one on your slide. The 4 traps below are why.
Trap 01
Relying on your team's competitor list
Sales names the 3 obvious rivals and stops. The competitor that kills you is usually the one nobody flagged: an indirect substitute, a manual workaround, or doing nothing.
Trap 02
Trusting an unsourced competitor claim
A pricing tier or feature list from a chatbot with no source is a guess. If you cannot click through to the competitor own page, assume it is stale or wrong.
Trap 03
Missing the indirect competitors
"No real competitors" almost always means you mapped the category, not the job. Whoever your buyer pays, or works around, today is your competition.
Trap 04
Treating it as a one-time snapshot
Competitive intelligence decays the moment you save it: prices change, features ship, rivals pivot. Re-run it on a cadence, not once before the deck.
The questions founders ask before they trust a competitive intelligence tool.
Competitive intelligence is the practice of systematically gathering and analyzing data about your competitors, their pricing, positioning, features, and market moves, so you can find the gap and defend it. Done right it is continuous, sourced, and covers indirect competitors, not just the two names everyone already knows.
Identify direct and indirect competitors (including manual workarounds and "do nothing"), then pull their pricing, positioning, features, hiring, funding, and customer sentiment from live sources like G2, Crunchbase, Reddit, and their own pages. Map it against your own offer to find the gap, then re-run it on a cadence. Preuve AI automates the gathering and mapping across 50+ live sources in minutes.
Business intelligence (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) analyzes your own internal data: revenue, usage, funnels, on dashboards. Competitive intelligence looks outward at the market and your rivals: their pricing, positioning, features, and moves. BI tells you how you are doing; CI tells you what you are up against. Preuve AI does competitive intelligence, not internal-data dashboards.
Market research sizes the whole opportunity (demand, market size, segments). Competitive intelligence zooms in on the players competing for it (who they are, how they price, where they win and lose). They overlap and the best decisions use both. Preuve AI delivers both in one scan: market sizing plus a sourced competitor map.
It collects competitor data (pricing, features, positioning, funding, hiring, reviews), structures it into a comparison you can act on, and ideally keeps it current. Preuve AI maps up to 15 competitors with pricing and positioning, surfaces demand and community signals, names your blind spots, and links every claim to the source it came from. Radar monitoring keeps the picture fresh after the first scan.
AI is strong at the breadth: finding competitors, pulling pricing and positioning, and summarizing reviews and moves across dozens of sources in minutes. It is unreliable when it states a competitor price or feature with no citation, which is a guess. The rule: if you cannot click through to the competitor source, do not trust the claim. Preuve AI links every finding to a public source.
Free with the Preuve AI scan. $29 for the full founder report (competitor map, market sizing, pivots). Dedicated CI platforms like Crayon, Klue, and Kompyte are enterprise-priced (often $1,000s/mo and annual contracts), built for sales and product teams that need continuous battlecards. Preuve AI gives founders the sourced competitor picture without the enterprise contract.
It is accurate to the extent it is sourced. Preuve AI links every competitor claim, pricing tier, and positioning statement to a public source you can verify, and runs across 50+ live sources rather than model training data. A confident competitor summary with no links is not intelligence, it is autocomplete. Verify any claim that would change your decision.
