Competitive intelligence
Research deeper. See the market clearer.
Competitor dossiers for agencies, consultants and founders. Each competitor is checked against its own website, every claim links to its source, and a person reads the whole dossier before it reaches you.
- Delivered within 48 hours
- From €149, no subscription needed
- Wrong competitor? Fixed or refunded
Puratos
| Verified competitor | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Callebaut Groupbarry-callebaut.com | Direct | 90/100 |
| Lesaffregroupe-lesaffre.com | Direct | 80/100 |
| Kerrykerrygroup.com | Direct | 80/100 |
| Vandemoortelevandemoortele.com | Direct | 80/100 |
| + 4 more in the dossier, each with its evidence | ||
Who it's for
For people who need to know a market fast, and get it right.
A dossier is built for one decision: a pitch, a raise, an investment, a launch. It gives you the competitors, how each one compares, and where every fact came from.
New client · new pitch
Agencies & consultants
Walk into the kickoff already knowing who your client competes with, with sources you can show them. White-label on request, so it goes out under your name.
Fundraising · board updates
Founders
Investors check the competition slide. A dossier gives you the companies, how they compare and where each fact came from, so your answers hold up when they dig.
Screening · early diligence
Advisors & investors
A fast, sourced first read on a company's market before you spend days on it. Add monthly tracking if you need to keep watching.
What's in a dossier
Five parts, all sourced.
One standalone document you can read in a browser, share with a link or print to PDF. Every line that states a fact links to the page it came from.
- Who the company isIndustry, product category, customers and geography, built from its own website rather than guessed from its name.
- The verified competitorsUp to eight featured (more on request), each scored and explained, with the evidence linked.
- What was set aside, and whyReal competitors beyond the featured list, and any of the company's own brands that looked like rivals, with the reason each was set aside.
- A profile of each competitorProducts, pricing, positioning, recent news and what customers say, dated and sourced.
- A strategic readOpportunities, threats and recommendations drawn from the evidence. Where the evidence is thin, it says so.
Method
How every competitor is checked.
Most competitor lists come from a search and a guess. That is how a company ends up "competing" with a review site, or with its own subsidiary.
- 01
Understand the company
Its own website is read first, to pin down what it sells, to whom and where. Searching by name alone is how look-alikes creep in.
- 02
Search from several angles
Category leaders, industry players, sub-categories and comparison articles. Each lead keeps a note of where it came from.
- 03
Check each candidate
Every candidate is scored on product, customers and market, using its own pages as evidence. No evidence, no listing.
- 04
A person reads it
Before delivery the whole dossier is read by a person. Anything that doesn't hold up is corrected or removed.
What gets excluded, and why you're told
These are removed before delivery. When a look-alike belongs to the same group, the dossier names it and says why.
- Review and comparison sitesThey rank for "alternatives to…" searches but sell nothing.
- The company's own brandsSubsidiaries and sister brands, found by checking ownership.
- Suppliers to the industryA company that sells tools to your rivals isn't a rival itself.
- NamesakesAn ambiguous name is checked against what the company actually does.
Samples
Read a real dossier before you buy one.
Dossiers on well-known companies, produced and read the same way a paid one is. Open any of them; nothing is gated.
| Company | Sector | What the dossier found | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puratos | Bakery & chocolate ingredients | 8 verified competitors, from Barry Callebaut to Lesaffre. Belcolade was excluded: it is Puratos's own chocolate brand. | Read |
| Oatly | Plant-based dairy | 8 verified competitors, including Califia Farms, Silk, Ripple Foods and Minor Figures. | Read |
| Stripe | Online payments | 8 payment providers including Adyen, Paddle and Worldpay, plus 6 more identified beyond the featured list. | Read |
| Flexport | Freight & logistics | Freightos, C.H. Robinson, Maersk and others featured. Kuehne + Nagel, DSV and DHL identified beyond the cut. | Read |
| Headspace | Meditation & sleep apps | 7 verified competitors, including Calm, Insight Timer, Pzizz and BetterSleep. | Read |
| Belcolade | Premium chocolate | Valrhona, Amedei, Godiva, Lindt & Sprüngli and Pacari, plus 6 more real competitors beyond the featured five. | Read |
| Discord | Community chat | 8 competitors from Guilded and Rocket.Chat to Slack and Element, each matched on product and audience. | Read |
Pricing
One clear price per dossier.
Tell me the company, receive the dossier within 48 hours. You pay after delivery, by invoice, once you've read it. No call needed.
Snapshot
One company, researched once.
Pilot price for my first 10 clients, in exchange for short written feedback (5 questions). You pay after delivery.
- Up to 8 verified competitors, more on request
- Each competitor profiled and sourced
- Strategic read of the market
- Delivered within 48 hours
- One round of questions and corrections
Prices in euro, excluding VAT. For businesses only. Need monthly tracking, a whole-market map or several dossiers for your clients? Write to me. Not sure yet? Start with the free scan.
If a competitor is wrong, it gets fixed or refunded.
Tell us within 14 days of delivery. If a company in your dossier isn't a real competitor, or a fact doesn't match its source, it is corrected within 48 hours. If it can't be corrected, you get your money back.
About
Who's behind RIVET
I built RIVET's research engine after seeing how often competitor lists name the wrong companies: review sites, a company's own subsidiaries, firms that just share a name. The engine checks each company against its own website. Then I read every dossier myself before it goes out, because that last check is the one that matters.
Julien Palte, founder · Belgium · jhg.palte@gmail.com
Questions
Before you order
How is this different from asking ChatGPT?
A chatbot answers from memory. It often names companies that don't compete, mixes up firms with similar names, and rarely shows where a claim came from. RIVET reads the current websites, checks every candidate against evidence, links each claim to its source, and a person reads the result. You can verify any line yourself in two clicks.
Where does the information come from?
Public sources only: company websites, news coverage and public reviews. Nothing private and nothing behind a login. Every claim links to the page it came from.
What do you need from me?
The company name and its website. If you can, add the competitors you already know and the decision the dossier is for. That tells us where to focus.
What if the market is niche or local?
The method works wherever companies have a real web presence. For very local or mostly offline markets the evidence can be thinner, and the dossier says so instead of padding. The free scan shows you what to expect before you pay anything.
Is my request confidential?
Yes. Dossiers ordered by customers are never published or shared, and the companies researched for you are never contacted. The samples on this site are on companies we chose ourselves.
Can I pass it on to my clients?
Yes. Any dossier can be delivered without RIVET branding on request.
What does the free scan include?
One page: the verified competitors of one company (yours or a client's), each with its source, plus one finding worth knowing. No card and no call. We do a limited number each week.
See your own market first.
A free one-page scan: the verified competitors of your company or a client's, with sources. No card, no call.