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What every rival is doing

Sena builds competitive intelligence from what each competitor in a market does. Every signal opens to the capture behind it.

  • 190+ countries
  • 5M+ consumer network
  • 250+ integrations
The problem

Past the published version

Most teams already watch competitors. Three things decide whether the picture holds, and each one surfaces when a decision rests on it.

01

Published sources, published gaps

WEB PRESS FILINGS WHAT THEY CHOSE TO PUBLISH THE PRICE A BUYER PAID OUTSIDE ALL THREE geo-verified capture, dated PRICE, PACK AND CLAIM, ONE IMAGE

Web pages, press coverage, and filings record what a competitor chose to publish. The price a buyer paid, the promotion in one country, and the pack change in another sit outside all three.

  • Coverage follows the markets that generate press.
  • The quiet market moves first and reports last.
02

The market is absent

RIVAL A · GROUP VIEW ONE SUMMARY A LOCAL CUT AND A REPOSITIONING READ ALIKE ONE COUNTRY MOVED GERMANYHELD FRANCEPRICE CUT SPAINHELD THE RESPONSE GOES THERE

A competitor summary describes the company. The market move happened in a separate read, so a local price cut and a global repositioning read alike.

  • Regional roll-ups average the country where the share changed into the rest
  • The team responds everywhere, while the market that moved stays general.
03

The claim arrives, date missing

DECK DECK DECK $3.80 NO DATE AUTHORITY OUTLIVES ACCURACY TWO QUARTERS STALE $3.80 14 AUG THE DATE TRAVELS WITH IT OUTLET · MARKET · CAPTURE

A figure about a rival circulates through decks until its date is lost. The team defends a position on a number that expired two quarters ago.

  • A figure missing its date keeps its authority long past its accuracy.
  • A buyer with fresher information wins the exchange.
What Sena does for competitive intelligence

The competitor set, dated

Sena is the decision AI with access to real-world data. It reports what each competitor charges, stocks, and claims in the market under review, from captures taken in real outlets and from what buyers there paid.

Per market

Every rival that counts

Sena reports the competitor sets for one market at a time, so the country that moves gets its own line.

  • Each competitor read separately, with its own price and position.
  • The set is defined per market, so the comparison holds across cycles.
One capture

Price, pack and claim together

Sena reads the price and pack and faces off the same capture, so a rival move arrives whole.

  • The claim on the pack and the price beside it, from one image
  • Promotions counted inside what the buyer handed over
Checked live

Every line, traceable

Each figure carries the outlet, the market, and the date, so a rival claim gets checked while it is being made.

  • The evidence and the figure arrive together.
  • A challenged number gets answered on the spot
The discipline

Gathering competitive intelligence

Competitive intelligence is the collection and analysis of information about the competitors in a market, used to decide what to do next. The discipline is old, and the constraint has always been the same: most sources report what a competitor published, and the decision needs what a competitor did.

The move
The read= vs
What the read says to do
Respond in this market
Demand followed 62% Held still 38%
Own share change, points
−1.5
The reason attached

The cut moved the category. Demand followed the rival move and own share gave up 1.5 points, so the response belongs in this market rather than everywhere.

Rival move read off a dated capture, category demand from recorded purchase, both on one market and one window.

The four sources

A competitive intelligence platform is judged on where its facts come from. Sena collects four.

SourceWhat it answers
ReceiptsWhat buyers in that market paid across the category, including the promotion applied.
Store capturesWhat each rival charges and stocks in a real outlet, with the market and date attached.
Geo-verified photosPrice, pack, facing, and claim read off the image, so figure and evidence arrive together.
Stated preferenceWhy buyers there chose one competitor over another and where they would switch.

How is the set defined and priced?

Step 01

Define the competitor set per market

The direct rivals a buyer would weigh, plus the private label where it holds real share. The set gets agreed with the team, and it decides what every share and price figure means.

Step 02

Fix the market and the window

One market, one period, held constant across reports. This is what makes two cycles comparable.

Step 03

Collect where buyers decide

Sena captures price, pack, and claim in the outlet itself, then dates each capture.

Step 04

Report per market

Each country returns on its own line, with the segment named, so a response goes where the movement is.

What the output changes

FRANCE · WEEK 34 DATED RIVAL AGAINED RIVAL BHELD PRIVATE LABELSLIPPED OPEN THE CAPTURE VS CATEGORY BENCHMARK EVERY FIGURE, ONE OUTLET AND ONE DATE
01

What competitive intelligence software returns

The output earns its place when it changes a decision. A competitive intelligence report per market, with the competitor set priced and dated. Where each rival gained position and where it slipped, read against the competitive intelligence industry benchmark for that category. The claim each competitor is making, read off the pack in that market.

Every figure open to the outlet and the date behind it.

ONE RIVAL MOVE DEMAND MOVED RESPOND HERE FLAT HOLD CLAIM GAINING CARRY IT ACROSS WHICH RIVAL, WHICH MARKET, AND WHAT BUYERS DID AFTERWARDS
02

What the read changes

Sena names which rival moved, in which market, and what buyers there did afterwards. A price move that shifted category demand argues for a response in that market. A price move that left demand flat argues for holding.

A claim gaining traction in one market points at the message to carry into others.

Direct from real consumers

Shared under explicit consent

Real people share what they buy and prefer, under explicit consent. Sena captures it directly at the source, so every figure traces back to where it came from whenever a number comes under question.

Real people, real consent Zero-party data straight from the source Traceable and verifiable
Sena for competitive intelligence

Ask Sena what rivals did

Sena answers competitor questions from consumer data collected under explicit consent, then names the move to make.

Sena, rebuilt in CSS · figures in this exchange are illustrative
Per marketOne line each

Each market gets its line

Sena answers a competitor question across the markets a team names, and reconciles each market line before reporting it.

Cross-market set
Same windowDid it work?

Read moves against demand

Sena places each rival move beside the recorded purchase for the same window, so a competitor action reads against whether it worked.

Move and response
Outlet, market, dateOn every figure

Check a rival claim live

Every competitor figure opens to the outlet, the market, and the date. A rival's denial meets the capture that recorded the move.

Capture and evidence
How Sena reaches the answer

What sits under every rival

A competitor read rests on the record behind it

A competitor read rests on the record behind it. Sena builds every figure here from real-world signals, captured when the question needs it. It runs from the consumer in the market through to the capture a team opens when a rival claim gets challenged.

Consumer activity

Records what buyers in each market paid and chose across the category. That activity names which competitor gained and which one slipped, market by market.

Computer vision

Reads price, pack, and facing-off images captured in real stores, counting what each rival holds where the buying decision happens.

Zero-party data

Signal arrives from the consumer network under explicit consent. The competitor picture rests on people who agreed to share what they buy and prefer.

Connect your systems

Brings its own CRM, sales, and revenue data in through 250+ integrations, Salesforce and HubSpot among them, so the rival read sits beside its own pipeline.

Trace every answer

Each competitor figure carries the market, the date, and the capture forward, so the evidence arrives at the moment a buyer questions it.

From files to databases

Turns scattered competitor decks, exports, and spreadsheets so a rival read draws on everything the team has filed.

Who watches the rivals

Built for the rival watchers

Four teams read the same competitor set, and each one needs a different cut of it before they can act.

Competitive intelligence

The picture. Needs the competitor set per market, priced, and dated.

Sales leadership

The response. Needs to know which market moved before the plan changes.

Product marketing

The message. Needs the claim each rival is making in each market.

Revenue operations

The price. Needs a rival move dated inside the window it happened in.

By industry

Rivals across every market

The same competitor set, read against the decision each category actually makes.

01

CPG and retail

What each rival charges and stocks in store, market by market, dated.

02

Financial services

Which product terms competitors hold in each region, and how do consumers respond?

03

Telecom

Where a competitor's tariff move changed what subscribers chose.

04

Consumer tech

Which competitor claims buyers in that market repeat back?

The mechanism

Consumer to rival, three steps

One mechanism covers every competitor and every market. Each step is documented, which is what keeps the picture defensible.

Step 01 · Capture

Capture

Real contributors share what they buy and pay under explicit consent in the markets named.

  • Receipts and captures from real outlets
  • Explicit consent on every signal
Step 02 · Read

Read

Sena reads the price, pack, facing, and claim off the captures and attributes each to the competitor and outlet it came from.

  • Four facts off one image
  • Attributed to the competitor and the outlet
Step 03 · Rank

Rank

The competitor set reports per market, ordered by position, with the date on every line.

  • Ordered by position, per market
  • A date on every line
What changes

Read from real outlets

Most competitor tracking reads what a rival published. Sena reads what a rival did in the market.

Capability areaTypical setupSena
Where the facts come fromWeb pages, press coverage, and published filings.Captures taken in real outlets, plus what buyers in that market paid.
CoverageFollows the markets that generate coverage.Runs for the market named, including the ones that publish little.
CadenceRefreshed on a project cycle, so the picture ages inside the quarter.Collection runs when the question needs it, per market.
Market granularityRegional summaries describing the company.Each market read on its own, with the rival set named.
Price and claim togetherGathered from separate sources and joined later.Read off one capture, so the pack claim and its price arrive together.
Auditing a figureA methodology page, with the records held by the provider.Any rival figure opens to the outlet, the market and the date.
Use cases

Three rival situations

Three situations where a market-level competitor read changes the decision on the table.

01 One marketNot the plan

Locate the rival move

Establish which market it happened in and whether buyers there responded before the plan changes everywhere.

See promotion ROI analysis →
02 The claimAgainst the driver

Test a competitor claim

Read the claim off the pack in that market and check it against what buyers there said drove the choice.

See brand perception tracking →
03 Per repPer market

Brief the field

Give reps the competitor set for their own market, dated, so the room gets a current answer.

See purchase driver analysis →
See it in one market

Bring one account to check

The walkthrough builds the competitor set for the category in the markets named and opens the capture behind every figure while the team watches.

What a walkthrough covers

  1. 01The competitor set in three markets named, reported separately
  2. 02Price, pack and claim read off the same capture, dated
  3. 03What buyers in each market did after the most recent rival move
  4. 04The dated capture behind any rival move worth tracing

Talk to the Rwazi team

Tell us the category and the markets, and we will bring the competitor set.

FAQ

Competitive intelligence questions

01 What is competitive intelligence?
Competitive intelligence is the collection and analysis of information about competitors in a market, used to decide what to do next. It covers what rivals charge, what they stock, what they claim, and how buyers respond. Sena builds it from receipts, store captures, geo-verified photos, and stated preferences, reported per market, with the capture attached to every figure.
02 How to gather competitive intelligence?
Define the competitor set for the market, fix the window, then collect from where the buying decision happens. Published sources cover what a rival chose to publish. Sena captures price, pack, and claim in real outlets and sets them against what buyers there paid, so the picture covers the quiet markets too.
03 What are the sources of competitive intelligence?
Published material carries most programs: web pages, coverage, filings, and job postings. Sena adds four collected sources: receipts showing what buyers paid, store captures from real outlets, geo-verified photos carrying price and claim, and stated preference explaining the choice.
04 What is competitive intelligence software?
Competitive intelligence software collects competitor signals and reports them against its own position. Most of the category aggregates published material. Sena collects from real outlets and real buyers in 190+ countries, reports per market, and opens any figure to the capture behind it.
05 What is a competitive intelligence platform?
A competitive intelligence platform is judged on where its facts come from and how current they are. Sena runs the collection for the market named when a question needs it, defines the competitor set per market, and dates every capture, so a two-quarter-old figure identifies itself.
06 Why is competitive intelligence important?
Because a response only works if it goes to the right market. A rival that cut price in one country and repositioned in another needs two different answers. Reporting per market is what separates them, and dating the capture is what keeps the answer current.
07 How to measure competitive intelligence?
Measure the position each competitor holds in a named market across a fixed window: price, presence, and the share of category purchase. Sena reports all three per market from recorded purchase and captures, so movement between cycles is measured against a constant boundary.
08 What are the goals of competitive intelligence?
To know what each rival charges and claims where it matters, to see movement early enough to act, and to hold a position under questioning. Sena serves all three by reporting per market, dating every capture, and opening each figure to its source.
09 What data does Sena use to read a competitor?
Zero-party data, shared directly and on purpose by people in that market, drawn from a 5M+ consumer network under explicit consent, across 190+ countries. Sena sets it beside store captures and geo-verified photos taken in real outlets, then beside the team's own systems through 250+ integrations.