Validate the idea.
Then watch the market.
SignalDart finds your real competitors, reads their pricing and features, and measures what buyers are actually searching for, then keeps watching, so you hear it first when a rival changes price, ships a feature, or raises funding.
SignalDartYour idea
- Finding competitors
- Reading pricing pages
- Measuring search demand
- Scoring gaps
Illustrative example · fictional companies
One idea, researched start to finish.
A full run in two minutes twenty: competitors, SEO, market gaps, pricing, monitoring and the report. Jump to any chapter below.
Sample data from an illustrative run.
How the two halves fit
Research it once. Then watch it.
A market you researched six months ago is a market you no longer understand. The monitoring half is only useful because the research half decided what to watch.
Market research
Before you build
- Competitors
- Pricing
- Features
- SEO demand
- Market gaps
- Opportunities
Competitor watch
After you build
- Pricing changes
- New features
- Website changes
- Positioning changes
- New competitors
- Market movement
Everything you need to dominate your market.
Six intelligence engines working together, from first idea to market-leading launch.
AI Competitor Research
Autonomous deep-dives into direct competitors: pricing, features, traffic, funding, and positioning, ranked by real relevance.
Learn more →SEO Intelligence
Find low-difficulty, high-intent keyword gaps your competitors missed, with clustering and programmatic SEO opportunities.
Learn more →Market Gap Analysis
Surface unmet customer pain points and blue-ocean spaces scored by impact, effort, and potential ROI.
Learn more →AI Strategy Advisor
Ask anything about your market and get grounded, cited answers with a strategist's reasoning, not generic AI fluff.
Learn more →Autonomous Monitoring
Agents check competitors every day for funding rounds, pricing changes, product launches and hiring, and alert you with the evidence.
Learn more →Executive Reports
Cited market research reports in minutes, exported to PDF, PowerPoint, HTML, Markdown or Notion.
Learn more →Nothing here is invented.
Every figure in a SignalDart report traces back to a page that was read or a provider that was queried, with the URL and the timestamp attached. If a source was unreachable, the report says so instead of filling the gap.
Competitor websites
Homepages, pricing, feature and changelog pages, rendered and read in full, not just the meta description.
Search engines
Who ranks for the terms your buyers type, and how hard those positions are to take.
Keyword databases
Monthly search volume, difficulty and cost-per-click for every term in your market.
Review platforms
Ratings and review counts, so you can see who customers are actually unhappy with.
News and press
Funding rounds, launches and pivots as they are announced, tied back to the competitor they affect.
Hiring signals
Open roles reveal roadmaps months early. A rival staffing a mobile team is telling you something.
Start free. Pay when it earns its place.
Every plan runs the same research pipeline. Paid plans add research runs, competitors and continuous monitoring.
Free
Validate one idea properly before you spend anything.
$0/ month
Free, no card required
- Research reports / month
- 1
- Competitors per project
- 5
- Projects
- 1
- Monitored markets
- None
- 1 full research report a month
- Up to 5 competitors
- Community support
Starter
For a solo founder validating ideas and watching one market.
$39/ month
or $390 a year
- Research runs / month
- 15
- Competitors per project
- 10
- Projects
- 5
- Monitored markets
- 1
- Continuous monitoring on 1 market
- Full research pipeline
- All report formats
- Email support
Professional
For founders shipping fast and keeping watch on several markets.
$99/ month
or $990 a year
- Research runs / month
- 40
- Competitors per project
- 12
- Projects
- 20
- Monitored markets
- 3
- Continuous monitoring on 3 markets
- AI assistant, all modes
- Priority support
Built for the people building the future.
We're looking for a first group of founders to build this with. If one of these sounds like you, we'd like you in it.
Solo founders
You have an idea and a browser with forty tabs open. You're trying to work out whether the space is already crowded before you spend six months building.
Map the real competitors and find where the gaps are, in an afternoon, not a fortnight.
Small product teams
You're shipping fast and a competitor just changed their pricing, launched a feature, or raised a round, and you found out from a customer.
Keep a standing watch on the market so the moves reach you before they reach your customers.
Operators and consultants
You need a defensible market read for a board deck, an investor update, or a client, and you need to show where every number came from.
Generate a cited, exportable report with the evidence trail attached.
Doing the research yourself?
The method behind every SignalDart report, written up so it works with or without us.
How to validate a startup idea before you build it
Seven steps from a one-line idea to a go, pivot or stop decision, using evidence you can check rather than opinions.
Read the guideHow to find competitors for a startup idea (including the ones that don't advertise)
The competitors on page one of Google are rarely the ones that matter. Where to find the rest, and how to decide which ones count.
Read the guideHow to use keyword search volume to estimate market demand
What search data can and cannot tell you about demand, which keywords to check, and how to read volume, difficulty and cost per click together.
Read the guideFrom the founder
I built SignalDart because I kept doing the same week of work by hand. Twenty tabs, a spreadsheet, and at the end of it a hunch I could not check and would not trust a month later.
What decided it was noticing that every tool in this category is structurally incapable of telling you no. They exist to surface opportunities, so they surface one every time, which makes a positive result meaningless. The hard version, and the one worth building, is a tool that scores competition next to opportunity and returns “crowded market” when that is what the evidence says.
It is early. There are rough edges, we hold no security certifications yet, and some fields come back unmeasured because no provider could measure them. I would rather tell you that now than have you find out in week three.
If you are validating something and you want the unflattering answer as readily as the encouraging one, I would like you in the first group.
Ankush Derle
Founder · About the team
Questions, answered.
You describe your startup idea in one sentence. SignalDart finds your real competitors, reads their websites for pricing and features, measures search demand for your market, and returns a scored verdict on whether the opportunity is worth pursuing, with a source link behind every figure.
Those tools give you raw data across a dozen dashboards and leave the thinking to you. SignalDart runs autonomous agents that gather competitors, SEO, pricing, funding and feature gaps, then synthesises them into one cited answer with a clear recommendation. It is intelligence, not just data.
A language model answers from training data and cannot tell you what a competitor charges today. SignalDart fetches the page, records when it was read, and cites the URL. It also re-checks on a schedule, so you find out when a competitor changes pricing or ships a feature.
Live web research. Competitor pricing and features come from crawling their actual sites, search volume and keyword difficulty from an SEO data provider, funding and launches from news search, and ratings from public review platforms. Anything no provider could measure is reported as unmeasured rather than estimated.
Yes. SignalDart scores competition and rankability alongside opportunity, and returns verdicts like ‘Crowded market: established competitors already cover what users want’. A tool that only ever finds opportunities is not research.
Every insight is grounded in a source the agents actually read, and cited inline with the time it was observed. Direct competitors are ranked by genuine relevance. We never pad the list with unrelated giants just to fill space.
Minutes, not days. Competitor discovery, site crawling, SEO analysis, market-gap scoring and the written report all run as a single pipeline.
Yes. Once a project is live, agents re-check it on a schedule and alert you when a competitor raises prices, ships a feature, raises funding or starts hiring for a new product line.
There is a Free plan with one full research report a month and up to 5 competitors, no card required. Paid plans start at $39 a month for Starter, which adds 15 research runs a month and continuous monitoring on one market; Professional is $99 with 40 runs and 3 monitored markets. Agency and Enterprise plans cover larger volumes.
Your research is private to your workspace and is never used to train shared models. We hold no third-party security certifications yet. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are on the roadmap, and we will not claim them until an auditor signs off.
Not for customers yet. An API, webhooks and team workspaces are being built, and we will announce them in the changelog when they open. Until then, every report exports to PDF, PowerPoint, HTML, Markdown or Notion.
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