A job you give to Aurora
Analyze competitors
Aurora understands, researches, decides, does, reviews and measures.
More specialized work. Less structure to get it done.
What always had to be built for this
- People
- an analyst
- Specialists
- competitive intelligence, pricing
- Vendors
- market data
- Software
- monitoring, spreadsheets
- Management
- an owner
- Coordination
- reviews, decks
Now it is a job you give to Aurora
How Aurora would do it, stage by stage.
1/7
Understands
Before doing anything, it understands your company and what you want.
ExampleAnalyze competitorsIt asks youWho you think your competitors are, where you lost your last three sales and to whom, your price list.
2/7
Researches
It looks for evidence. What it does not know stays marked as unknown.
ExampleAnalyze competitorsIt opensEach competitor's site and published prices, their customers' reviews, public records, your lost deals.
Stays unknownTheir margins and costs, unless public.
3/7
Decides
It decides what work is needed. You do not have to know in advance.
ExampleAnalyze competitorsIt proposesA map of prices and real differences, and three possible moves with their risk.
It discardsA long competition report: read once, never used.
4/7
Does
It does the work. It executes only what you authorize.
ExampleAnalyze competitorsIt asks you to authorizeRead your sales data. Yes. Pose as a competitor's customer: only if you authorize it.
It deliversPrice map, difference matrix by segment, three moves with evidence.
5/7
Reviews
Done is not taken as good. It is checked before delivery.
ExampleAnalyze competitorsOne caseOne of the three comparables was from another country. Redone with two. You are told.
6/7
Measures
Doing something is not achieving it. It measures what happened.
ExampleAnalyze competitorsWhat it didMap and moves are delivered and reviewed.
What happenedClose rate against those competitors, in 90 days, with your data. Before that, not measured.
What it did ≠ What happened
7/7
Learns
What worked stays for the next job. New evidence corrects it.
ExampleAnalyze competitorsWhat staysThe map updates when prices change. The conclusion is replaced if the evidence changes.
Start with a diagnosis.
Up to two weeks, on your data. It ends in “this is possible, this is not, and this is what it would take”. If it is not useful, you stop there.
Price agreed before starting. No subscription, no standing team.