Know when a competitor moves, before your customers tell you
Once a project is monitored, SignalDart re-checks your competitors every day: pricing and feature pages, news, job postings, review platforms and search rankings. Changes arrive as alerts and a daily digest, and build up into a timeline of how your market is moving.
- Free plan
- No credit card
- A source behind every number
Competitive timeline
Checked daily- TakeCallToday
Raised entry plan from $49 to $59
- RingOrderYesterday
Shipped a POS integration
- Dialtable3 days ago
Hiring 2 mobile engineers
- Dialtable1 week ago
Announced a seed round
- RingOrder2 weeks ago
Rating fell from 4.6 to 4.3
Illustrative example · fictional companies · idea: “AI phone ordering for takeaway restaurants”
Why founders hear about competitor moves last
Competitors rarely announce the changes that matter most. A pricing tweak, a new integration or a hiring push for a mobile team shows up on their site or a jobs board long before it appears in a press release, if it ever does.
Checking by hand works for a week. After that it becomes the task that never gets done, and the first sign of a move is a customer mentioning it on a sales call.
The manual way
A week of evenings
Competitors found by ad budget
Prices copied once, stale by next quarter
No sources to show an investor
One sentence in. A cited answer out.
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Pick the market to watch
Turn on monitoring for a researched project. The competitors in that project become the watch list, and you can add or remove them.
- 02
Daily checks across sources
Pricing, feature and changelog pages, news coverage, job postings, review platforms and search rankings are checked every day.
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Alerts with evidence
Each change arrives with its source and, where it applies, the before and after values. A daily digest summarises everything that moved.
Everything on one page, with the evidence attached
Pricing and feature changes
New tiers, changed prices, removed free plans and newly shipped features, with before and after values.
Funding and launches
Funding rounds, launches and pivots from news coverage, tied back to the competitor they affect.
Hiring signals
Open roles can show a roadmap months early. A competitor staffing a mobile team is telling you something.
Reviews and search shifts
Changes in ratings and review counts, and movements in who ranks for the terms your buyers search.
Competitive timeline
Every detected change, in order, per competitor, so you can see a strategy rather than isolated events.
What it does not do
Research you act on should tell you where it stops. These are the limits, stated up front.
- Monitoring is a paid feature: 1 monitored market on Starter, 3 on Professional, 8 on Agency and 25 on Enterprise.
- Checks are daily, not real-time. A change made and reverted within a day may not be seen.
- News and funding detection depends on public coverage. A round that is never announced cannot be detected.
Frequently asked questions
What does competitor monitoring track?
Pricing, features, funding rounds, product launches, hiring, reviews and search ranking changes for every competitor in a monitored project.
How often are competitors checked?
Every day. Changes appear as alerts and are summarized in a daily digest.
Is competitor monitoring included in the free plan?
No. Monitoring has a real recurring cost for every market watched, so it starts on the Starter plan with one monitored market.
Can I choose which competitors are monitored?
Yes. A monitored project watches its competitor list, and you can add or remove competitors at any time.
Learn the method behind it
Competitor pricing analysis: how to compare rival prices and set yours
How to turn a pile of pricing pages into a comparison you can price from, and how to keep it current.
Read the guideDirect vs indirect competitors: the difference, with examples
Four kinds of competitor, what each tells you about your market, and how to classify a company you are unsure about.
Read the guideSee your market, with the sources attached.
Describe your idea in one sentence. The Free plan includes one full research report a month with up to 5 competitors, no card required.