Why I built Competitor Spy: the $1,000/mo CI tools problem

Every competitor analysis tool I looked at was either $1,000+/month (Crayon, Klue, Kompyte) or a $500 consultant project that took 2 weeks.

For a bootstrapped founder with $300/month total marketing budget, neither was usable. So most of us ship in the dark, not knowing what our top 10 competitors charge or where they are weak.

I built Competitor Spy to solve this for the $19 tier. Enter a business or idea, get 10-15 real competitors with pricing, SWOT, vulnerability audit, and a 90-day playbook. PDF in your inbox in 3 minutes.

Under the hood: Gemini 2.5 with live Google Search grounding. Data is pulled at the moment you generate, not from a training cutoff.

Launching tomorrow. Curious: what is the worst competitor research experience you have had? Generic AI output? Stale consultant report? A $1,000 tool you canceled after a month?