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Use case · Competitive battlecards

Know who you are up against,
from the calls that named them

Nobody logs a competitor. They get mentioned on a call, in passing, and the deal changes shape. AnyCRM reads them there, builds the card from the record, and cites every claim back to the line a buyer actually said.

  • Built from the deal's own calls
  • Every claim quoted and dated
  • Rebuilt when a new name appears

Deal intelligence

Sample data

Open

AnyCRM. Deal intelligence.

Detected

A competitor appears on the deal, from the last call transcript. "We are running this alongside the team we already use in Manila." Operations Director, 12 June Competitive deal: incumbent named

Battlecard

The card, assembled from the record, auto-generated, cited. Where they win, Scale and price on voice, from the buyer's own words. Where you win, Languages and the AI containment plan. Their likely objection, Transition risk, raised twice on calls SWOT: Written. Five Forces: Written. Claims cited: All

Risk

A second competitor appeared in yesterday's transcript. Procurement mentioned a nearshore provider nobody on your side has heard on this account. The card you were about to take into Thursday's meeting is a card for the wrong fight. Card out of date.

Your call

Three moves offered: Rebuild the card around both competitors; Ask the champion directly who else is in; Keep the card and note the second name as unconfirmed. The card is a draft until you say otherwise.

Resolved

Card rebuilt for two competitors, Separate positioning for each, cited to the calls. Champion question drafted, One line, for the Thursday meeting. The card matches the deal as it is today. Both competitors positioned. Battlecard on the deal, not in a folder.

Deliverables

Battlecard, Both competitors, with the quotes behind each claim. SWOT and Five Forces, Generated from the same record. Read-only link, For the deal team. Filed on Pellworth Energy, activity logged, the champion question on Thursday's brief.

Close

The card is as current as the last call.

A battlecard built from the deal, not from a slide library. A coded simulation. Not connected to a live account.

Pellworth Energy, where the incumbent was named on a call nobody flagged, and a second name appeared a week later.

How it works

Four steps, and none of them is typing.

  1. 1

    Detected in the transcript.

    Pellworth Energy

    Sample

    “We are running this alongside the team we already use in Manila.”

    Operations Director, 12 June

    Competitive deal: incumbent named

    A competitor named in passing on a call is picked up, attached to the deal, and the deal is marked competitive. Nobody had to remember to tick a box.

  2. 2

    The card builds from the record.

    Pellworth Energy

    Sample
    • Where they win

      Scale and price on voice, from the buyer's own words

      Cited
    • Where you win

      Languages and the AI containment plan

      Cited
    • Their likely objection

      Transition risk, raised twice on calls

      Cited

    SWOT

    Written

    Five Forces

    Written

    Claims cited

    All

    Where they win, where you win, their likely objection, and the structured views on top: SWOT and Five Forces, generated from the same record. Every line points at the call or the document it came from.

  3. 3

    A new name rebuilds the card.

    Pellworth Energy

    Sample

    A second competitor appeared in yesterday's transcript.

    Card out of date

    When a second competitor appears in yesterday's transcript, the card you were about to use is flagged as a card for the wrong fight. Rebuild it around both, ask the champion directly who else is in, or keep it and mark the second name unconfirmed.

  4. 4

    To the team, not a folder.

    Documents

    Sample
    • Battlecard

      Both competitors, with the quotes behind each claim

    • SWOT and Five Forces

      Generated from the same record

    Shared with the team

    The card, the structured analysis and a read-only link, filed on the deal with the champion question on the next meeting's brief.

The risk beat

When something turns, it tells you and shows you the moves.

Here the turn is: A second competitor appeared in yesterday's transcript. Three moves were offered and a person took one: rebuild the card around both competitors.

Risk beat · AnyCRM AI

Sample data
  1. 1

    Detection

    A second competitor appeared in yesterday's transcript.

  2. 2

    Explanation

    Procurement mentioned a nearshore provider nobody on your side has heard on this account. The card you were about to take into Thursday's meeting is a card for the wrong fight.

    Card out of dateRaised the morning after the call
  3. 3

    Options

    • Rebuild the card around both competitors
    • Ask the champion directly who else is in
    • Keep the card and note the second name as unconfirmed
  4. 4

    Human choice

    Rebuild the card around both competitors

    A person presses one. Nothing is sent or written until then.

  5. 5

    Resolution

    The card matches the deal as it is today.

    Every claim on it still cites the line that produced it, and the second competitor is in it because a transcript said so, not because someone guessed.

    Both competitors positionedBattlecard on the deal, not in a folder

Where the answers come from

The record you already have.

A battlecard from a slide library is about a competitor in general. This one is about the competitor on this deal, assembled from the calls where the buyer talked about them.

Meeting transcripts

Where competitors are actually named

The deal record

Stage, value and what has already been proposed

Buyer objections

Counted across calls, not remembered from one

The output

The battlecard

Every line points back at one of these.

Your service lines

So where you win is a claim you can deliver on

Public signals on the competitor

Posture and positioning, with dates

Past deals against the same name

What worked, and what the buyer said afterwards

What you receive

Documents, not a dashboard.

A card your team can carry into Thursday, with the quote behind every line, and a question for the champion that the card itself raised.

See the full Sales Leaders page
  • The battlecard

    PDF

    The battlecard

    Positioning per competitor, with the quote on each claim

  • SWOT and Five Forces

    PDF

    SWOT and Five Forces

    Generated from the same record, not written by hand

  • The champion question

    PDF

    The champion question

    One line, for the next meeting

  • Read-only. Revoke any time.
    Link

    A read-only link

    For the deal team before they walk in

Why BPOs need this

What we heard, in their words.

  • The problem

    We find out who else is bidding when we lose.

    A sales leader

  • The problem

    Our battlecards were written for a market, not for this deal.

    An account executive

  • The problem

    Half the claims on the card, nobody can say where they came from.

    A bid manager

Questions

The honest answers.

How does it know a competitor is on the deal?

From the call. A name mentioned in a transcript is attached to the deal and the deal is marked competitive, without anyone filling in a field.

Are the claims sourced?

Every line on the card carries the call, the date and the quote behind it. A claim with nothing behind it does not go on the card.

What happens when the competitive picture changes?

The card is flagged as out of date the morning after the call that changed it, and you choose whether to rebuild, ask the champion, or note the new name as unconfirmed.

Does it name competitors publicly?

The card lives inside your deal. It is built for your team, and it is not published anywhere.

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