Competitive intelligence for marketing teams

Competitors keep circling. Your positioning stays sharp.

SmokeLadder scores and tracks positioning and messaging for your brand and competitors against category benchmarks, then helps you refine your marketing to protect the space you own.

Used by marketing teams from agencies to the Fortune 100 · Free to try. No credit card.
9,000+brands scored
4M+data points
360°brand analysis
54.6
Positioning
2nd of 10 in Content
Open Lane Found
"Easiest to integrate"
From alert to homepage copy

Your strategy and marketing are always a step ahead.

Sales intelligence tools help reps win the deal. SmokeLadder helps marketing win the position. Clear, consistent scores of every brand’s value points, benchmarked against its category, mean you know when to change and when to double down.

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Competitor tracking

Know when a competitor changes its story.

SmokeLadder re-captures your competitive set on a rolling schedule. When a rival rewrites its messaging, it is re-scored and lands in your next alert, with what changed and what it moved.

The before and after, word for word
The score change and the value points it moved
Real repositioning, not rotating banners or page churn
Chad Fife

“SmokeLadder gives marketing teams data-driven feedback on their positioning.”

Chad Fife · CRO, Marketing Leader, Minder Memory
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Alert · Messaging changeTracking for asana.com
ClickUp rewrote its homepage hero Oct 6
Before

Software to replace all software. Save time. Save money. Infinite productivity.

After

One Workspace built to think and work

Re-scored58.8 → 72.9+14.1
Value points moved
  • reduce risk 6 → 8
  • lower cost 6 → 8
Why it matters: ClickUp now matches Asana on reduce risk, one of Asana's strongest value points.
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Value point benchmarks

See where you’re exposed and where to double down.

Every brand in your set is scored on the same value points and benchmarked against its category. Get data to defend your direction instead of relying on gut feel.

Exact scores on every value point, not vague summaries
The strengths no competitor matches
The points a rival just caught up on
Ranudi Jayasinghe

“Smokeladder will save you time when doing copy and messaging audits.”

Ranudi Jayasinghe · Product Marketing, Velaris
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asana.com clickup.com monday.com notion.com
0 2 4 6 8 10 marketability reach generate revenue lower cost responsive design vision configurable connects expertise quality reduce effort reduce risk reputation save time simplify stability variety flexible inform innovation integrate organize scalability

Asana leads the set on expertise and vision. ClickUp's new messaging just matched it on reduce risk (shaded).

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Messaging and content

Sharpen the copy that protects your space.

SmokeLadder flags the lines any competitor could have written and the strengths your page never says. Score & Create drafts the replacement and scores it against your set before it ships.

Generic claims and vague lines, flagged in place
Gaps where your strongest value points go unsaid
Accidental AI slop, caught before your buyers notice it
Alex Boyd

“Cheat code for quickly analyzing your messaging and finding blind spots!”

Alex Boyd · Co-Founder, DemandBird, Wildfront Ventures
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Copy reviewasana.com · homepage

The OS for human-agent teams

AI that works the way your team works

Deliver real productivity for every team

Generic claim

Every work-management brand in the set says its AI fits how teams work. Nothing here is Asana's alone.

Vague

"Real productivity" names no outcome. Asana's lead on expertise and vision is not said anywhere on the first screen.

Beyond the benchmarks

Your brand, from the outside in.

AI positioning comparison

See how AI describes your brand to buyers.

Buyers ask AI before they ever reach your site. SmokeLadder compares its answer with your own positioning, line by line, and shows where the story holds and where it drifts.

Match, drift or gap on what you are, who it is for and why to choose you
What AI credits you with that you never claim
The drawbacks AI keeps repeating about you
AI positioning comparisonslack.com
Partly aligned

AI tells Slack’s story mostly faithfully, but it frames Slack as chat-first collaboration more than Slack’s newer AI work platform positioning.

Slack saysAI tells buyers
What it isAI-powered work platformTeam communication and collaboration platformDrift
Who it’s forGrowing and enterprise teams needing faster coordinationWorkplaces and teams coordinating projects across toolsMatch
Why choose itConnected work, automation, and visibility across toolsChannel-first collaboration with integrations and searchable workDrift
AmplifyThe AI platform message fades. All three answers call Slack a communication platform first, while Slack’s site positions it as an AI-powered work platform.
Positioning scores

The map that shows where you stand today.

Every brand plotted by how differentiated it is against how much value it communicates. Empty spaces are ready to be claimed.

Leaders, laggards, and crowded quadrants at a glance
All your competitors on the same two axes
“We’re different” becomes a scored, defensible position
The Positioning Map
Your brand Competitors
LEADERS UNDIFFERENTIATED Kapwing Zoom VEED Descript Clipchamp CloudApp Loom
VALUE →
DIFFERENTIATION →

Loom is differentiated but under-communicates value. Double down on strengths to occupy the open lane.

Message scoring

Grade a headline before it ships.

Write a new headline, then score it on three pillars against your buyers and your category. Rewrite and watch it improve.

Clear, relevant and memorable, each scored 0 to 100
A note on what is holding the score back
Every version kept, so you can compare drafts
Message scoring
“The OS for human-agent teams”
55Overall
Clear60
Relevant44
Memorable62

“OS is jargon here, and human-agent teams is not yet plain everyday language for a first-time visitor.”

Message Scoring · asana.com
SmokeLadder vs. AI-generated analysis

Data you can track, not another LLM monologue.

Most AI tools, including the ones sold as competitive intelligence, write you a fresh opinion every time. SmokeLadder scores every brand on the same model, so you can see what actually moved.

Generic AI analysis
Responds only when asked, with dated info
Confident guesses with no scoring model underneath
No category benchmarks to compare against
Generic models pushing to average ideas
A different answer every time you ask
Long, spaghetti hunches to untangle
SmokeLadder
Tells you what’s changed now, so you can act
Proprietary scores you can track over time
Real category benchmarks and a ranked leaderboard
Frameworks from the #1 research agency in the US
The same method, every brand, every run
Differentiation gaps backed by data

Want the long version? See the same question answered both ways, on real data →

Customer story

"Feels like I have a whole team of researchers and microstrategists."

"It's uncovering ideas and insights I may not have otherwise had. When I onboard a client I feel like I'm reading their minds – they ask me how did I know that?"

Scott MartinFounder, Brand Strategist

The analysis doesn’t stop at positioning.

Every brand you analyze opens up further: see how each buyer in the room reads you, and find which features actually set you apart.

Decision maker verdicts

See every seat in the room

The whole buying committee, scored on how ready each role is to say yes, and the objection each one is holding.

Sales Operations Lead8.5
Technical POV7.2
Marketing POV7.0
Finance POV6.5

Finance is the hardest seat: “Show me payback, total cost to implement and maintain.”

Decision Makers · pipedrive.com
Feature analysis

Know which features carry you

Every feature on the page scored for how far it sets the brand apart, and what the page leaves unexplained.

AI Bug Reports9.0
Screen Recording8.0
Security Controls6.0
Viewer Insights5.0

“Viewer insights appear in the feature list, but the homepage offers almost no supporting explanation.”

Feature Analysis · loom.com
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