Your Modern CI Program. Fully Managed.
RIVL builds you a high-trust, AI-enabled competitive intelligence program and runs it from end-to-end. You get out of the competitive weeds, and into competitive wins.
What we deliver
Turn Competitor Data into Your Unfair Advantage.
RIVL does the heavy lifting of continuously ingesting and analyzing competitive data, and we help you deploy winning competitive insights through the LLMs and communication tools you already use today.
DATA
Curation of key intelligence sources
Public Intelligence Monitoring
Online monitoring of news, press, customer reviews, social media postings, company websites, help centers, and more.
Proprietary Intelligence Processing
Batch collection of sales call recordings and transcripts, CRM notes, field knowledge and other company-owned CI sources for enhanced insights.
Primary Intelligence Collection
Supplement your competitive intelligence with industry stakeholder interviews, customer surveys, win/loss outreach, mystery shopping, and more.
DELIVERABLES
Turning data into actionable insights
Alerts and Newsletters
Ongoing notifications of meaningful competitor activity and scheduled newsletters with deeper interpretation of market developments.
Battlecards
Always up to date tactical how to win guidance using frameworks like why we win/lose, landmines to lay, objection handling, and more.
Executive Summaries
Periodic reports with the “so what” that helps to drive your long-term competitive strategy and influence your product roadmap.
DISTRIBUTION
Delivering insights in engaging ways
Slack & Teams Channels
A dedicated competitive intelligence channel for the distribution of alerts and scheduled newsletters where your teams already work.
LLM Connectivity
All deliverables are optimized for AI parsing, enabling a “headless” competitive intelligence engine for instant, trusted and tailored answers to competitive asks.
Enablement Trainings & Materials
Periodic competitive trainings and support with copywriting for enablement resources like datasheets, SEO pages, PPC ads, and more.
How we work
The Precision of Human Expertise. The Velocity of AI.
RIVL is the expert “human-in-the-loop” for your competitive intelligence program. Our managed hybrid model embeds human-verified intelligence directly into your AI workflows, giving your team the trusted insights they need to win more deals.
| Model | Legacy CI | Managed Hybrid | Pure AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | High maintenance, low velocity, and poor adoption. Manual overhead to maintain portals and deliverables that users rarely leave their workflows to find. | High trust and adoption. Keeps humans at the core of strategic validation while leveraging AI for dynamic data analysis and distribution. | Highly scalable, but high risk. Extreme data velocity and low deployment barriers, can be derailed by credibility issues and a severe trust deficit. |
| Data | Heavily indexes on public intelligence sources while internal proprietary data (CRM logs, call transcripts, etc.) remains trapped in siloes, ingested in an unstructured and resource-intensive manner. | Structured curation of public intelligence sources paired with batch processing of internal proprietary data with the option to enrich data using primary intelligence sources (interviews, surveys, etc.). | Automated scraping and unvetted continuous ingestion of public intelligence and internal proprietary data directly into an uncurated database can lead to “garbage-in, garbage-out.” |
| Deliverables | Manual curation resulting in point-in-time, static deliverables (PDF battlecards, rigid dashboards) that quickly go stale, leading to loss of trust. | Human experts leverage AI to vet and synthesize data, and use structured frameworks to build deliverables that are optimized for both direct consumption and AI parsing. | Generative, automated analysis executed by an LLM with zero human verification and a tendency to over-index or raw data volumes. |
| Distribution | Treats intelligence as a passive destination. Stakeholders must log into a separate portal, or “pull” information from a shared folder, leading to a lack of adoption. | Human maintained and refined deliverables power the “competitive brain” of your LLM, so your team is always operating on the sharpest, most accurate intelligence; plus enablement training and resources. | Chat interfaces provide real-time AI generated responses to end users with a risk of hallucinations and damaged credibility. |
Legacy CI
High maintenance, low velocity, and poor adoption. Manual overhead to maintain portals and deliverables that users rarely leave their workflows to find.
Managed Hybrid
High trust and adoption. Keeps humans at the core of strategic validation while leveraging AI for dynamic data analysis and distribution.
Pure AI
Highly scalable, but high risk. Extreme data velocity and low deployment barriers, can be derailed by credibility issues and a severe trust deficit.
Legacy CI
Heavily indexes on public intelligence sources while internal proprietary data (CRM logs, call transcripts, etc.) remains trapped in siloes, ingested in an unstructured and resource-intensive manner.
Managed Hybrid
Structured curation of public intelligence sources paired with batch processing of internal proprietary data with the option to enrich data using primary intelligence sources (interviews, surveys, etc.).
Pure AI
Automated scraping and unvetted continuous ingestion of public intelligence and internal proprietary data directly into an uncurated database can lead to “garbage-in, garbage-out.”
Legacy CI
Manual curation resulting in point-in-time, static deliverables (PDF battlecards, rigid dashboards) that quickly go stale, leading to loss of trust.
Managed Hybrid
Human experts leverage AI to vet and synthesize data, and use structured frameworks to build deliverables that are optimized for both direct consumption and AI parsing.
Pure AI
Generative, automated analysis executed by an LLM with zero human verification and a tendency to over-index or raw data volumes.
Legacy CI
Treats intelligence as a passive destination. Stakeholders must log into a separate portal, or “pull” information from a shared folder, leading to a lack of adoption.
Managed Hybrid
Human maintained and refined deliverables power the “competitive brain” of your LLM, so your team is always operating on the sharpest, most accurate intelligence; plus enablement training and resources.
Pure AI
Chat interfaces provide real-time AI generated responses to end users with a risk of hallucinations and damaged credibility.
Delivery timeline
Win More Competitive Deals in Weeks.
Onboarding
- Strategy Call: A 60-minute session to understand your messaging, positioning and value propositions as well as your competitive landscape.
- Technical Setup: Provisioning secure cloud storage folders for scheduled, batch-file ingestion of your proprietary competitive data and configuration of Slack/Teams channels.
Design
- Data Gathering: Launching automated tracking of public competitive data alongside the batch collection of proprietary competitive data.
- Data Structure: Transforming raw data into competitive battlecard frameworks designed for accurate AI interpretation and direct human consumption.
Activation
- System Deployment: Connecting vetted battlecards and how to win guidance, aka the “competitive brain”, into your team's day-to-day AI workflows.
- Live Notifications: Real-time competitive alerts pushed to your Slack/Teams channels and scheduled newsletters delivered to your email.
Optimization
- Ongoing Updates: Continuous human-in-the-loop data ingestion and analysis to keep your “competitive brain” and your teams up to date on the sharpest competitive tactics.
- Periodic Deliverables: Executive summary briefings to drive higher-level competitive strategy plus enablement trainings and resources to supplement your program.
Onboarding
- Strategy Call: A 60-minute session to understand your messaging, positioning and value propositions as well as your competitive landscape.
- Technical Setup: Provisioning secure cloud storage folders for scheduled, batch-file ingestion of your proprietary competitive data and configuration of Slack/Teams channels.
Design
- Data Gathering: Launching automated tracking of public competitive data alongside the batch collection of proprietary competitive data.
- Data Structure: Transforming raw data into competitive battlecard frameworks designed for accurate AI interpretation and direct human consumption.
Activation
- System Deployment: Connecting vetted battlecards and how to win guidance, aka the “competitive brain”, into your team's day-to-day AI workflows.
- Live Notifications: Real-time competitive alerts pushed to your Slack/Teams channels and scheduled newsletters delivered to your email.
Optimization
- Ongoing Updates: Continuous human-in-the-loop data ingestion and analysis to keep your “competitive brain” and your teams up to date on the sharpest competitive tactics.
- Periodic Deliverables: Executive summary briefings to drive higher-level competitive strategy plus enablement trainings and resources to supplement your program.
Pricing
An Entire CI Function. For Less Than the Cost of a Single Analyst.
The average Competitive Intelligence Analyst costs $100,000 a year. For a fraction of that investment, RIVL equips your business with an advanced data pipeline and expert human strategic insights that power the “competitive brain” of your LLM.
Packages
What's included
Starter
$4,000/mo
Best for businesses with no formal CI approach or clear program owner
Scale
$6,000/mo
Best for PMM teams that run CI as a side gig and need additional support
Strategic
$8,000/mo
Best for businesses that want a fully dedicated CI person without the hire
Data
Deliverables
Distribution
Starter
$4,000/mo
Best for businesses with no formal CI approach or clear program owner
Competitors tracked
Data
Public
Monitoring of open source intelligence like websites, news, customer reviews & social media
Proprietary
Batch processing of intelligence owned by you like CRM notes, sales call transcripts & field knowledge
Primary
First-hand intelligence collection via interviews, surveys or mystery shopping
Deliverables
Awareness
Ongoing notifications and scheduled newsletters of meaningful market activity
Analysis
Periodic executive summaries with the “so what” that helps to drive your business strategy
Advisory
Always up to date tactical how to win guidance using sales battlecard frameworks
Distribution
Alerts
Pushed to email or a dedicated Slack / Teams channel, wherever you work
Access
Vetted insights in a format friendly to the apps, systems and LLMs you use today
Activation
Enablement trainings or enablement resources like datasheets, SEO pages, and more
Scale
$6,000/mo
Best for PMM teams that run CI as a side gig and need additional support
Competitors tracked
Data
Public
Monitoring of open source intelligence like websites, news, customer reviews & social media
Proprietary
Batch processing of intelligence owned by you like CRM notes, sales call transcripts & field knowledge
Primary
First-hand intelligence collection via interviews, surveys or mystery shopping
Deliverables
Awareness
Ongoing notifications and scheduled newsletters of meaningful market activity
Analysis
Periodic executive summaries with the “so what” that helps to drive your business strategy
Advisory
Always up to date tactical how to win guidance using sales battlecard frameworks
Distribution
Alerts
Pushed to email or a dedicated Slack / Teams channel, wherever you work
Access
Vetted insights in a format friendly to the apps, systems and LLMs you use today
Activation
Enablement trainings or enablement resources like datasheets, SEO pages, and more
Strategic
$8,000/mo
Best for businesses that want a fully dedicated CI person without the hire
Competitors tracked
Data
Public
Monitoring of open source intelligence like websites, news, customer reviews & social media
Proprietary
Batch processing of intelligence owned by you like CRM notes, sales call transcripts & field knowledge
Primary
First-hand intelligence collection via interviews, surveys or mystery shopping
Deliverables
Awareness
Ongoing notifications and scheduled newsletters of meaningful market activity
Analysis
Periodic executive summaries with the “so what” that helps to drive your business strategy
Advisory
Always up to date tactical how to win guidance using sales battlecard frameworks
Distribution
Alerts
Pushed to email or a dedicated Slack / Teams channel, wherever you work
Access
Vetted insights in a format friendly to the apps, systems and LLMs you use today
Activation
Enablement trainings or enablement resources like datasheets, SEO pages, and more
Can I add primary research later?
Yes. Mystery shopping, win/loss interviews, surveys and other primary research is available as an add-on in every package.
What about additional competitors?
We can track more than the included limit. Additional competitors are priced per the package you choose.
Can I build a custom package?
Yes. Book a call with us to discuss your needs and we can build a program tailored to your business.
Book a call
30 Minutes. Zero Pitch.
Book a call or email and tell us about your business priorities and competitive pains. We'll recommend a solution or tell you if we aren't the right fit.