Positioning review

What are competitors telling buyers, and to whom?

Before a company repositions, rewrites its website or prepares a sales deck, it needs to see the territory it is stepping into. The question is not what competitors sell but what they say: which buyer they address, which problem they name first, what proof they put forward and which words everyone in the category has started to repeat.

ClaimsAudienceProof usedCrowded and open wording
The decision question

Which message is crowded and which one is not being said?

We read each competitor's own customer-facing material in a fixed order: homepage and product pages, then case or reference pages, then sales documents they publish, then how third parties such as resellers and directories describe them. For each one we record the audience addressed, the first problem named, the main claims, the type of proof used and the tone. The result is a messaging review that shows where several companies say nearly the same thing and where wording is thin.

Reading how companies describe themselves is different from knowing how buyers perceive them. The review states this limit and does not present competitors' wording as buyer opinion.

How the review is used in practice

How the review is used in practice

A software company rewriting its homepage

Checks that the new headline does not duplicate the wording of three competitors and that a specific claim has proof ready.

A manufacturer entering a distributor channel

Sees how rival brands present themselves in catalogues and sell sheets, so its own sheet can be read quickly next to them.

A services firm with several segments

Compares how competitors speak to each segment and finds where one segment is left to generic wording.

Limits to keep in mind

Limits to keep in mind

No recommendation on your message

We describe the landscape of wording. Writing your positioning is your decision or a creative brief, not part of this research.

Private material stays out

Only public material is read. Gated documents are not obtained under a false identity.

Step by step

What goes into the review

01

Select the pages that carry the message

Pages are chosen for the audience you care about, not for volume. A blog that serves another audience is noted and left out of the core comparison.

02

Code the claims

Statements are grouped into plain categories such as capability, simplicity, speed of use, specialisation or trust. Any figure a competitor states is recorded as stated by the company, with its source.

03

Separate claim from proof

A claim with a named reference or document behind it is marked differently from a claim that stands alone.

04

Mark the shared and the open ground

The review lists phrases several competitors use and angles that no reviewed company takes, labelled as inference.

The service

Competitor Research

Who it is for
Companies launching or repositioning a product who need to know who they compete with and how those competitors sell
The problem it solves
The competitive set is assumed rather than mapped and positioning decisions rest on guesses
What we need from you
  • product and positioning
  • market or markets
  • known competitors
  • what decision the research supports
How it works
  • scope agreed
  • competitor identification and mapping
  • offer, channel and positioning review
  • map and comparison delivered
What you receive
A competitor map with a profile of each competitor, a comparison of offers, channels and positioning, and a source log
Included
  • competitor identification and mapping
  • offer and range comparison
  • channel and positioning review from public material
  • gaps and open questions
  • method and limitations note
Not included
  • monitoring or scraping systems
  • strategy or market-entry decisions
  • forecasts
  • guaranteeing completeness of the competitor set
Timing
Confirmed when your request is accepted.
What LATYNEX does
  • agree the scope
  • map competitors
  • compare offers, channels and positioning
  • write up with sources
Price
Confirmed when your request is accepted.
Good to know

What this is, and isn't

Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Will you tell us what our positioning should be?+

No. The review shows what competitors say and where wording is crowded or open. The choice remains yours.

Does this include advertising or social posts?+

The review reads public material that the competitor itself publishes, and the report names which pages and channels were read. Gated or private material is not used.

Is it the same as a competitor map?+

No. A map answers who competes. This answers how they speak.

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No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.

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