Competitive landscape research for indie SaaS founders and bootstrapped operators. Commissioned per-project. Delivered in three to seven days.
You are about to build a thing, or change the price of a thing, or enter a market where someone has already built the thing. Before you do, somebody should map the territory.
Sightline is a small research practice that produces detailed competitive landscape reports on commission. We cover the kind of B2B SaaS, developer tooling, and productivity software niches where the founder needs to know — concretely — who is already there, what they charge, what their users complain about, and where the unoccupied ground actually is.
The work is AI-augmented. Every claim is traced to a public source, and every report is reviewed by a human before it ships. We say this on the homepage because we think the alternative — pretending otherwise — insults the buyer.
Most "competitor research" is a blog post written from the top three Google results. Ours is the opposite. We assemble the evidence first — pricing pages, changelogs, G2 reviews, App Store listings, public funding records, founder interviews — and synthesize from there.
Every factual claim in a Sightline report is traceable to a cited source included in an appendix. If a number can't be sourced, it doesn't go in.
A short call (or async brief) confirms the niche, the target buyer, the questions you actually want answered, and what you'll do with the report. We push back if the brief is too broad to be useful.
We gather pricing, positioning, feature sets, review sentiment, traffic and growth signals from public sources. No paywalled databases, no fabricated data, no scraped LinkedIn.
The deliverable is structured around the questions you asked, not a generic template. Comparison tables where they help. Plain prose where it helps more.
Human review pass on every claim and citation before delivery. You receive the report as a Notion document and a PDF. One round of revisions included.
All three reports cover the same kind of work — competitive landscape, positioning, pricing, and gaps. The tier you choose determines breadth, depth, and the strategic synthesis layer at the end. Pricing is fixed; no scope-creep invoices on the back end.
A focused read of the immediate field.
The working report most founders need.
A near-comprehensive map of the territory.
Three sample reports are being published as proof-of-method. Each is the same structure and depth a paying founder would receive. They'll appear here as they ship over the next several days.
We want this transaction to be fair to both parties. Our policy:
If you believe a delivered report contains factual errors, contact us and we will correct them at no charge. Refund requests should be sent to hello@sightlinereport.com and are processed within 5 business days.
Confidentiality. Anything you share about your business during scoping is treated as confidential. We will not share, publish, or reuse your specific brief, your competitive questions, or any non-public information you provide.
Deliverable ownership. Reports you commission are yours to use however you wish: internally, in fundraising materials, in board decks, or quoted publicly with attribution.
Data we collect. Email address, name, company name, payment information (handled by Stripe), and the contents of your project brief. We don't run analytics or tracking on this site beyond standard hosting logs.
No financial, legal, or medical advice. Reports are informational research products. They are not investment advice, legal advice, medical advice, or any form of professional counsel.
Tell us the niche, the questions you want answered, and the tier you're considering.
We'll respond within one business day with confirmation, scope, and a Stripe link.
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