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Know when a competitor changes their pitch

Competitors rarely announce a repositioning. They just rewrite their homepage. Competitor Watch re-reads your competitors’ homepages every week and emails you when the headline, subhead or main button changes, with the before and after.

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What lands in your inbox

Subject: Acme Robotics rewrote their homepage headline

Hi,

Acme Robotics changed their homepage headline.

Before: “The autonomy platform for every robot”
After: “Autonomous inspection for defense depots”

On our grader that’s an improvement (58 to 71), mostly because it now says who it’s for.

Worth a look: they’re now using “inspection”, which is close to your own headline.

Where everyone stands on our grader right now: ...

Alex

Example with made-up companies.

Headline, subhead, button

We track the copy that carries positioning, not every pixel. Rotating banners, A/B tests and cookie pop-ups are filtered out.

Scored, not just diffed

Every change is graded with the same model behind our 30,521 homepage rankings, so you see whether it got clearer or vaguer.

Reply and a person answers

Notes are signed by Alex Stonehouse of Brilliantly Wrong. Reply to any of them and he’ll answer.

What it looks at

Each competitor’s headline, subhead and main button
We re-read the homepages you choose every week.
What changed
When the wording changes, you get an email with the before and after side by side.
Patterns over time
Several small changes in a row often signal a repositioning before any announcement.

Questions

How often are competitors checked?

Once a week.

What counts as a change?

A different headline, subhead or main call to action. Small layout tweaks and rotating banners are ignored.

Will competitors know I’m watching?

No. We read their public homepage like any visitor would.

Is it free?

Yes. You only need to give an email address for the alerts.

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