🔍 XavvyNess Competitive Intel — Deep Company Research + Gap Analysis

Get a complete competitive intelligence report on any company — funding history, team size, product overview, pricing tiers, customer reviews, tech stack, and marketing strategy. Add your own company name and get a head-to-head gap analysis automatically.

The original Company Research actor has 2K runs. We built on top of it with live Tavily search, multi-dimension coverage, and head-to-head gap analysis you can't get anywhere else on Apify.

Demo

🎬 Video demo coming soon. Upload competitive-intel.mp4 to YouTube, then run python3 scripts/actor-video-gen.py --embed-readmes to embed it here automatically.

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🚀 What It Does

1. Runs live web searches across 7 competitive dimensions for each company
2. AI synthesizes the raw data into structured, actionable intelligence
3. Optional: adds your company to generate a strategic gap analysis

Perfect for: sales prep, investor research, product strategy, market entry analysis, competitive positioning

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📥 Input

Field	Required	Default	Description
companies	✅	—	Company names or domains (e.g. "OpenAI" or "openai.com")
yourCompany	—	—	Your company name for gap analysis
dimensions	—	funding, product, pricing, reviews	Which aspects to research
depth	—	standard	quick / standard / deep

Available dimensions: funding, team, product, pricing, reviews, techstack, marketing

Example input:

{
  "companies": ["Anthropic", "OpenAI"],
  "yourCompany": "XavvyNess",
  "dimensions": ["product", "pricing", "reviews", "techstack"],
  "depth": "deep"
}

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📤 Output

Real output from a live run comparing AI coding assistants:

{
  "company": "GitHub Copilot",
  "overview": "GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that boosts developer productivity by providing code suggestions, automating routine tasks, and offering inline chat and code review.",
  "founded": "2021",
  "teamSize": "1000+",
  "fundingTotal": "$41 million",
  "pricingModel": "Freemium — $10/month individual, $39/month business",
  "topStrengths": [
    "Deep integration within the developer workflow",
    "Improves productivity and speeds up tasks",
    "Backed by Microsoft/GitHub distribution"
  ],
  "topWeaknesses": [
    "Code quality issues in complex edge cases",
    "Over-reliance risk for junior developers",
    "Privacy concerns with code being sent to servers"
  ],
  "targetAudience": "Developers, programmers, and organizations",
  "strengthScore": "8",
  "opportunityGap": "Cursor can gain a competitive edge by focusing on more accurate suggestions, better edge case handling, and stronger privacy guarantees for enterprise customers.",
  "dimensions": ["funding", "product", "pricing", "reviews"],
  "researchedAt": "2026-04-08T22:26:10.617Z",
  "agent": "XavvyNess Competitive Intel"
}

Each company in the companies array gets its own result object. Add yourCompany to get strategic gap analysis automatically.

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💡 Research Dimensions

Dimension	What You Get
funding	Funding rounds, investors, total raised, valuation
team	Founders, key hires, team size, notable departures
product	Core features, recent launches, roadmap signals
pricing	All pricing tiers, per-unit costs, enterprise discounts
reviews	G2/Trustpilot/Reddit sentiment, common complaints
techstack	Known infrastructure, APIs, integrations, languages
marketing	Positioning, messaging, key channels, campaigns

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⚙️ Setup — API Keys

Variable	Required	Where to Get
TAVILY_API_KEY	✅ Required	app.tavily.com (free tier available)
GROQ_API_KEY	Recommended (free)	console.groq.com
GOOGLE_API_KEY	Optional fallback	aistudio.google.com

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🔗 Use Cases

1. Sales prep — Research a prospect's tech stack and competitive positioning before a call
2. Market entry — Map the competitive landscape before launching in a new segment
3. Investor research — Deep-dive on portfolio companies or potential investments
4. Product strategy — Find gaps in competitor offerings to inform your roadmap
5. Partnership evaluation — Understand a potential partner's financials and culture
6. Pricing strategy — Benchmark your pricing against the market in minutes

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📊 Performance

• ✅ Standard research: ~30-60s per company
• ✅ Deep research with gap analysis: ~90-120s per company
• ✅ Live web data via Tavily (not static databases)
• ✅ Groq → Gemini fallback — never fails silently
• ✅ Failed runs are not charged — you only pay for successfully generated reports

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Integration

Via Apify JavaScript client

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('QaKPkAQ0x8ynmYubk').call({
  companies: ['Anthropic', 'OpenAI', 'Cohere'],
  yourCompany: 'YourStartup',
  dimensions: ['product', 'pricing', 'reviews', 'techstack'],
  depth: 'standard',
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach(company => {
  console.log(company.company);        // Company name
  console.log(company.fundingTotal);   // Total funding raised
  console.log(company.pricingModel);   // Pricing structure
  console.log(company.opportunityGap); // Strategic gap vs. your company
  console.log(company.strengthScore);  // Competitive strength 0–10
});

Via HTTP API

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/QaKPkAQ0x8ynmYubk/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "companies": ["Anthropic", "OpenAI"],
    "dimensions": ["product", "pricing", "reviews"],
    "depth": "standard"
  }'

Via Make.com / Zapier

Use the Apify module → Run Actor action. Actor ID: QaKPkAQ0x8ynmYubk. Pass company names in the companies array, then map {{opportunityGap}} and {{strengthScore}} into your CRM or reporting workflow.

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