Competitive intelligence for Chicago businesses

A city of neighborhoods — and a city of competitive sets

Your competitive set is hyper-local

Chicago is a city of 77 community areas. Each one runs its own competitive economy. A taco joint in Pilsen doesn't really compete with one in Albany Park. A medical spa in Lincoln Park watches Lakeview and the Gold Coast, not the suburbs. A real estate brokerage in Wicker Park tracks the agents working Bucktown, Logan Square, and the Ukrainian Village. The relevant competitive set is rarely the whole city — it's usually four to eight businesses within a 15-minute walk.

Manual tracking eats the hours owners don't have

Chicagoland holds 85,000+ small businesses inside the city limits and over nine million people across the metro area. Keeping up by hand means a full morning ritual:

• Eight competitor websites
• Four Google Business profiles
• Two neighborhood Reddit threads
• Block Club Chicago, every morning

Nobody has time for that. So most owners skip it — and lose Tuesday lunch traffic to a sandwich-shop promotion they never saw coming.

One five-minute email instead

MyIntelBrief replaces that hour with a daily email. We watch what your competitors do — websites, Google profiles, menu and price changes, new hires, local press coverage — and ship only what's worth knowing. AI-curated, deduplicated, ranked by what's likely to actually move customers this week.

How it works for a Chicago business

1. Tell us your business. One sentence — "deep-dish pizzeria in Pilsen" or "family law in Oak Park." We figure out the local market.

2. We find your competitors. AI scans your area, identifies the 5–10 businesses most likely competing with you, verifies them against Google profiles, and shows you the list. You approve, edit, or replace.

3. We watch them every day. Websites, Google Business profiles, news mentions, social presence, ratings. Anything they change, we catch.

4. You get one email per morning. Only what matters — deduplicated, ranked, with the screenshot or link. Most days takes 90 seconds. Some days catches a competitor before they hit your Friday-night customers.