See what users
actually think,
not what founders
tell you
Screen deals faster with competitive intelligence built on 10M+ mapped user intents. Market sizing, discussion momentum, live competitor signals, and user sentiment before your first partner meeting.
Founders pitch the vision.
You need the ground truth.
Every pitch deck claims a massive TAM and a differentiated product. But what do the market's actual users say? Are competitors really struggling where the founder claims? Is there genuine demand, or just a founder's conviction? Those signals are scattered across review sites, forums, and discussion threads that take days to gather manually.
Deal flow outpaces diligence
Your associates spend days building market maps for a single deal. Meanwhile, three more decks land in the inbox. Speed matters, but so does rigor.
Founder narratives vs. reality
Pitch decks highlight strengths and gloss over competitors. You need an independent, data-driven view of the competitive landscape to assess the real opportunity.
Product-market fit is opaque
TAM numbers are easy to find. Understanding whether users genuinely want a product category and what they dislike about incumbents is much harder.
What BuildSherpa gives your deal team
Competitive landscape
Market map with competitor matching, feature coverage, and positioning analysis. See where players cluster and where potential gaps exist.
Voice of customer analysis
Aggregated strengths, pain points, and unmet needs from real users. Understand what customers appreciate, complain about, and request, based on available review data for the sector.
Pricing intelligence
Structured tier breakdowns showing how competitors price, where free tiers exist, and how transparent the market is. Useful context for evaluating pricing dynamics.
Feature matrix
Auto-generated comparison of what each competitor ships. Helps identify table-stakes features vs. differentiators across the competitive set.
Market sizing
TAM, SAM, and SOM estimates with confidence levels and methodology. Cross-reference against founder claims before your first call.
Live market signals
Recent funding rounds, product launches, partnerships, and expansions auto-extracted from competitor blogs and news pages. See who's actively moving in the space.
Discussion momentum
Quarterly discussion volume trends per competitor. See which players are gaining or losing community attention and whether the market is accelerating.
Investment thesis support
Each report includes a summary of whether the customer feedback data supports or challenges the stated research question. A starting point for your own thesis development.
How investors use BuildSherpa
Quick screen
A founder pitches a new category. Before your first call, run an analysis to see the competitive landscape, market sizing, and recent competitor activity. Walk into the meeting knowing whether the TAM claim holds up and what signals the market is sending.
Deep diligence
The deal is progressing. Use comparative analysis to benchmark the target against competitors on features, pricing, ecosystem integrations, and discussion momentum. Understand where they differentiate and where customer perception diverges from the pitch.
Portfolio support
Your portfolio company needs to understand their competitive positioning. Give them an objective market view built on real customer data, not the founder's optimistic lens. Useful for board prep and strategy sessions.
The data behind our analysis
Every insight is built from the ground up. We aggregate real user intents, extract structured pricing data, cluster features, estimate market size, track discussion momentum, and capture live signals from competitor blogs and news. The underlying data comes from review platforms and competitor websites, not LLM training data.
400K+
Products
10M+
Mapped user intents
Real
Pricing tiers
Live
Scraped at analysis time
Share and track across your team
Every analysis is built to be shared with partners, co-investors, or portfolio companies.
Branded PPTX export
Export slides with your fund's colors and logo. Drop findings directly into IC decks or partner updates.
Shareable report page
Password-protected analysis page under your fund's domain. Built-in analytics show who opened it and when.
Monthly auto-update
Competitive landscapes refresh monthly. Track how portfolio company markets evolve without re-running analyses.
Version & market history
Every update is versioned. Compare how competitive positioning shifted between investment and board review.
Common questions
Yes. Our comparative analysis mode lets you define a target company (or group) and benchmark it against a competitor set. You'll see exactly where the target excels, where it's behind, and what customers say about each player.
Those platforms track funding rounds, financials, and company metadata. We focus on the product-market layer: what real users think about these products. Think of us as the voice-of-customer intelligence that complements your existing financial data. We answer "is there real demand?" and "where are incumbents failing?", not "how much did they raise?"
If the specific company isn't indexed, we can still analyze the market around it. We'll find competitors in the same space and build the competitive landscape, user feedback analysis, and pricing intelligence from the broader market. You'll understand the terrain even if the target itself is pre-launch or very early stage.
Yes. The process is guided. Describe the market or company, answer a few clarifying questions, and the analysis runs automatically. The output structure is consistent regardless of who runs it, though the quality of input (how well the market is scoped) affects the quality of output.
Validate any market before your next partner meeting
Your first analysis is free. Run a market screen on the deal you're currently evaluating and see what real users think about the competitive landscape.
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