AI Competitive Intelligence Agency

Name a rival.
Get a cited battlecard in five minutes.

Message a company name to our Telegram bot. A Hermes-native agency researches the live web and returns a full, sourced Battle Pack while you wait.

Just send Battle Linear — no signup, no forms.

<5 min
Request to full Battle Pack
<$0.10
Estimated model + tool cost per run
7
Delivery formats from one analysis
100%
Claims traced to public sources
How it works

A manager agent that hires researchers on demand.

Rival is not one prompt. It is a Hermes manager that spawns specialist subagents, runs them in parallel over live search, then writes one validated analysis.

STEP 01

You send a name

Message the target on Telegram. Rival picks one fair market arena and its three closest competitors — asking a single question only if the target is ambiguous.

STEP 02

Specialists fan out

The manager spawns parallel researchers on separate axes — positioning, pricing, and recent signals — each pulling live public-web evidence through Linkup.

STEP 03

Writer synthesizes

A writer merges structured claims into one canonical Battle Pack, keeps every claim tied to its source, and escalates instead of guessing when evidence is thin.

STEP 04

Every format ships

The same analysis becomes a Telegram brief, a public web report, a PDF, social drafts, a share image, and a voice briefing — every run logged for proof.

One analysis, seven formats

Everything you need to actually use the intel.

Rival never re-invents facts per channel. Every deliverable is rendered from the same validated Battle Pack, so the numbers stay consistent everywhere.

Telegram brief

Executive verdict, top three findings, confidence and source count, delivered in chat.

Public web report

An interactive comparison page with the full matrix, deep dives, and claim-level sources.

PDF report

A print-optimized 4-6 page brief, attached in Telegram and linked publicly.

LinkedIn post

A ready-to-review 800-1,300 character post you approve before it ever ships.

X thread

A five-post thread drafted from the same verdict, kept requester-reviewed.

Share image

A branded 1200x630 comparison card built for LinkedIn and X previews.

Voice briefing

A 20-30 second spoken executive summary generated with ElevenLabs.

Proof dashboard

Every run's success, latency, cost, and confidence — verifiable, not claimed.

Sample output

This is what lands in your chat.

A real-shaped Battle Pack: one clear verdict, a normalized comparison matrix, and a confidence badge backed by counted sources.

Battlecard

Linear

Market arena — Issue tracking for software teams
confidence: high 12 sources 41.6s $0.07
Executive verdict

Linear wins decisively on speed, keyboard-first UX, and developer trust. Its sharpest exposure is enterprise portfolio reporting and granular admin controls, where Jira still leads. Best wedge against incumbents: teams frustrated by Jira setup overhead.

AxisLinearJiraAsanaShortcut
Best forProduct & eng teamsEnterprise engCross-functionalSoftware teams
Setup effortMinutesHighLowLow
Entry price / user$8 / mo$7.75 / mo$10.99 / mo$8.50 / mo
Enterprise reportingGrowingDeepStrongModerate
Signature strengthSpeed & UXConfigurabilityWorkflowsDev workflow
Every value cites a public source Pricing marked "not publicly listed" when unavailable — never invented.
Built to be trusted

It cites its work — or it escalates.

Rival is engineered around an evidence gate. If the public web cannot back a fair comparison, it tells you honestly instead of dressing up a guess.

// evidence gate

Sources, not vibes

Every material claim carries a citation with publisher, URL, and date. Each company needs at least two credible sources before it makes the card.

// escalation by exception

Honest when it's thin

When evidence is weak or sources conflict, Rival escalates and offers you choices — narrow the arena, change rivals, or proceed at visibly low confidence.

// verifiable proof

Numbers you can check

Every run records latency, cost, confidence, and the agents it spawned to a live dashboard. If it isn't on screen, it doesn't count.

Runs on a proven agent stack
Hermes orchestration Linkup live search Convex state + proof Cloudflare public reports ElevenLabs voice
Try it now

Pick a rival. See it in under five minutes.

No signup. No form. Just message the bot and watch the agency go to work.

Open Rival on Telegram
then send Battle Linear