The IDØ blog

Reading competitor moves by reception.

Competitive intelligence, done honestly. Why whether a move landed beats what shipped — and how to read a rival's launch without drowning in noise.

01 · Jul 20, 2026 · 6 min

We scored 2,418 competitor moves. 88% landed to silence.

Competitive intelligence tools are built to tell you what a rival shipped. We measured what happened next — and across nine sectors, only 12% of moves earned any public reaction at all.

02 · Jul 20, 2026 · 7 min

Does a bigger launch land harder? We measured it: barely (r = 0.25)

Across 6,569 scored competitor moves, the correlation between how significant a move is and how much reaction it earns is 0.233 — about 5% of the variance. Significance and reception are close to independent, which is the whole reason we measure both.

03 · Jul 20, 2026 · 5 min

We checked 1,825 competitor hiring signals. Zero drew a public reaction.

Not a small number — zero. Which tells you something precise about when reception measurement is useful, and when you have to read a competitor structurally instead.

04 · Jul 20, 2026 · 5 min

1.5% of competitor moves capture nearly two-thirds of all public reaction

Of 6,569 deduplicated moves, 100 of them account for 62.5% of every reaction measured. Attention in B2B software is not scarce — it is concentrated, which is a different and more useful problem.

05 · Jul 20, 2026 · 6 min

Announcing beats building: press moves land 87% more often than ships

Across 4,677 competitor moves, 14.8% of press events drew a public reaction against 7.9% of actual product ships. The gap is real, and it is not a reason to write more press releases.

06 · Jul 11, 2026 · 4 min

How to tell if a competitor's launch actually landed

Shipping is table stakes. The real question — did the market care — is answerable, and it's the one that should change your roadmap.

07 · Jun 28, 2026 · 3 min

Why there's no language model in our score

A number you can't reproduce is an opinion. Here's why the IDØ impact score is deterministic — and where the model does belong.

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