MAPS Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence

The picture everything else starts from.

Eight analysis tabs on the brand and its market, written in the market’s language and built on sources you can see. Then a chat to query them, and a web search when the project isn’t enough.

8
analysis tabs
~7,800
words
150
table rows
~20
pages of research

The demo project: Competitive Intelligence alone, ready in about twenty minutes.

The Competitive Intelligence header: quality, date, exports and the tabs
The quality score, the date of the reading, the exports, the tabs. Fictional names.
What you get

Eight tabs.
A whole market.

In B2B projects the tabs talk about companies: Consumer becomes Customers, and the research looks for decision-makers, sales channels, trade fairs.

01

The brand and the market

The reference market with its numbers, drivers and challenges; the brand’s history, structure and size; its strengths, areas for development, opportunities and risks.

The foundation everything else reasons on.

Market drivers and challenges
02

Consumer

in B2B: Customers

The buyer groups with their profile, what drives them, where they buy; the purchase journey, price sensitivity, loyalty, the trends changing demand.

You know who you’re working for.

The buyer groups
03

Channels

How the market splits by channel, how fast each one grows, the retailers and platforms that matter, the distribution strategies by price tier.

You know where it sells, and where to sell.

The market by channel
04

Competitors

Market shares and competitive structure by price tier. And when shares aren’t public, MAPS says so — with the scope of the data available — instead of making them up.

You know who you’re up against, and how solid your knowledge is.

When data isn’t public, MAPS says so
05

Pricing

Price bands by channel and by product, competitors’ price positioning relative to the brand, the gap between value and price.

You know where the price sits, and how much room there is.

Price bands by channel
06

Ads

The media the brand actually uses, recent campaigns, competitors’ level of visibility, communication trends. Budget and share of voice only if they’re public: otherwise N/A.

You know how the category communicates.

The media used by the brand
07

Portfolio

The product lines with their segment and channels, the flagship products, the comparison with competitors’ portfolios, the strengths and the gaps.

You know what the brand sells, and what’s missing.

The product lines
08

Innovations

Product and service innovations in the category and the trends driving them, each with its relevance to the brand.

You know what’s coming.

The trends and their relevance to the brand
In full

Above you saw a piece.
This is a whole tab.

The channels tab, from start to finish, exactly as it comes out of the research: the market structure, the retailers, the chains, the platforms, the strategies by price tier, the trends.

Scroll inside the window. Then multiply by eight.

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The Competitive Intelligence channels tab, in full

One of the eight tabs. Brand and competitors with fictional names; retailers and platforms are the market’s real ones.

How far to trust it

Every reading can be checked.

A quality score

Every analysis has one: it tells you how solid it is, before you use it.

The date

You know when the reading was made. When you regenerate, the previous one stays in the history.

N/A, not made-up numbers

When a figure isn’t public, MAPS says so. Estimates are flagged as estimates.

The sources

Right-click a sentence: MAPS finds where it comes from, and checks it.

On any sentence

Select.
Right-click.

You read a passage that interests you and take it further from there, without switching screens.

Go deeper project + web
It searches what the project knows first, then the web.
Add to canvas as a quote
The passage goes to the Canvas, linked to its source.
Create note distill onto the canvas
MAPS turns it into a note, ready to work with.
The module’s chat

Market Intelligence.
Your market questions, in one place.

In the last tab there’s a chat that answers on market, competitors, trends and scenario, starting from the project’s data. The questions are ready-made, area by area; and you choose what it reasons on: Competitive Intelligence alone, or all of Monitor. With Compare with the past it also tells you what has changed since the previous reading.

The Market Intelligence chat
The suggested questions, the sources to reason on, the comparison with the past. Fictional names.
Go deeper · project + web

When the project isn’t enough,
search the web.

Ask an open question. MAPS answers first from what the project already knows; if that’s not enough, it finds the articles and answers citing every fact with its source and its date. You know whether a piece of news is from yesterday or from a year ago.

“Is there any recent news on the luxury menswear tailoring market in Italy: openings, acquisitions, new made-to-measure models?”
The answer from the web: summary, dated sources, questions to continue
The summary, the web sources with their date, the questions to continue.

What you save goes into the project.

A saved deep dive stays in Saved Insights, laid out as in the chat, and goes into the project’s memory: the chat and the tools use it later. Next time, the answer comes straight from there.

A saved deep dive: the table of news items with the date of each source
A saved deep dive. The project’s brand and competitors with fictional names; the news is public.
Taking it out

Ready to share, as it is.

Export PDF

The tab you’re looking at.

Full Report

All the tabs in one document.

AI Strategic Synthesis

Pick the sections: MAPS writes the synthesis, as a PDF or in PowerPoint.

To the Canvas

A whole tab, a captured area or a single passage, to work on it alongside the rest of your work.

From the tabs to a deck.
In a minute.

Pick the sections and press AI Strategic Synthesis: MAPS writes the executive summary — overview, one slide per theme with its key insight and highlights, the key takeaways — and gives it to you as a PDF or in PowerPoint, with editable text.

The executive summary cover
A real executive summary, generated from MAPS’s own project: seven slides, downloaded as they are.
The overview
One slide per theme: text, key insight, highlights
The key takeaways
Back to →Monitor →

See it on your market.

One brand, one category, one market: in twenty minutes the eight tabs are full.