Weekly briefs on nearby rivals

“Will my competitors find out I looked?”
No. We read public information only — websites, Google listings, reviews, job posts. Nobody you type in is ever contacted.

“Could a competitor watch me the same way?”
Your website, Google listing and reviews are already public, so anyone can read them, with or without us. You’re not deciding whether you get watched, only whether you’re the one watching. We never tell anyone which businesses you track.

“Will it charge me later?”
We never ask for a card for the free weeks, so there is nothing to bill. The briefs simply stop after week 4 unless you choose a plan.

“Will you sell my email or spam me?”
No. We do not sell your personal information (privacy policy). You get this brief, then one a week for 4 weeks, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

“Will it work for my kind of business?”
MyIntelBrief is built for businesses with real competitors nearby: restaurants, trades, dental and medical, auto, retail and local services. National and B2B businesses are fine too: we look for your national competitors instead. A shop that also sells on Instagram or online counts. Only an online-only store is not a fit.

“What does it cost after the 4 weeks?”
Nothing, unless you choose to keep it. If you do, Starter is $39.99 a month right now (normally $79.99). If the briefs don’t earn their keep, they just stop.

“I already know my competitors.”
You know who they are today. Do you know about the new one that just opened down the highway, or the one that’s quietly closing? And what the ones you know changed this week — a price, their hours, a hiring push, what their own customers are complaining about? Most owners hear it late, from a customer. This is how you hear it first.

“Can’t I just check their websites myself?”
You could. Most owners start, then it falls off the list because the job and the crew always come first. We check for you (every night on paid plans, once a week for your free briefs), so it never gets dropped.

“Couldn’t I just point an AI agent at five rival sites myself?”
You could, but it is harder than it looks. Most AI tools learned from the web months ago, so they don’t know what changed this week unless you pay for live web searches, every day, for every rival, and that bill keeps growing unless you build caching so you don’t buy the same pages twice. What comes back usually has no dates, so you can’t tell this week’s change from last year’s. And someone still has to set it up, keep it running and check what it brings back. We check each rival’s website (on a paid plan, up to daily; on the free weekly briefs, weekly), along with their Google listing, reviews, job posts (Indeed, LinkedIn and their own site) and local news, keep only what changed since the last check, and every brief is dated. In a quiet week we tell you so in one line (see a quiet-week sample).

“Will it just tell me to cut my prices?”
No. You see what a rival changed and what is worth doing about it. We never tell you to just match or undercut a price — protecting your margin comes first, and plenty of good moves never touch your price.

“Will it be full of stuff that doesn’t matter to me?”
No. Each brief leads with what matters most to your business. In a quiet week you get a short note saying so, not filler. Here is an example of that note.

Built by Chuck, a former defense-intelligence systems engineer.