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54.6
Positioning
2nd of 10 in Content
Open Lane Found
"Easiest to integrate"
Use cases

One tool, four jobs your team deals with every day

Positioning work usually means weeks of desk research. Pick the job you're doing today.

For strategy

Walk into the kickoff already knowing the direction

Score the client and their whole competitive set before the first workshop.

Time to a point of view
1 hour

What used to take a discovery sprint now takes one sitting.

"SmokeLadder gives marketing teams data-driven feedback on their positioning"

Chad FifeCRO, Marketing Leader, Minder Memory
Visualize the landscape

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.

tldv.io zoom.com gong.io read.ai
0 2 4 6 8 10 design marketability reach responsive lower cost stability vision configurable connects expertise flexible generates revenue quality scalability variety organize reduce risk reputation simplify inform innovation reduce effort integrate save time

tldv.io owns save time and integrate outright. Everything left of expertise is where the category already clusters.

Compare point by point

See exactly where a brand can separate

Every value point scored for every brand in the set. Read the gaps directly instead of arguing about them.

Exact scores on every value point, not vague summaries
Spot the strengths worth doubling down on
See which points the whole category already shares
SmokeLadder vs. a chatbot

"Can't I just ask an LLM?"

You can. It will sound confident and hand you nothing you can defend in a client meeting.

A generic LLM
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
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

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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

Marketers can stop guessing at positioning and messaging gaps

Turn a vague "we feel different" into a scored position you can put into a deck for the client within 10 minutes.

Benchmark every client the day you sign them, and see where they rank against the category on the same criteria.

Find the exact words confusing your buyers, then rewrite the homepage that week instead of debating it for a month.

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