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Strategic intelligence · AI-assisted · fact-checked · days, not months

Intelligence that arrives when it matters, from people who know your name.

Governed, actionable competitive intelligence at the speed of decisions. For companies that can't wait months, or settle for a dashboard full of undigested alerts.

Yes, we use AI. No, a prompt can't do this. Here is why
Your one screen[Company] · [date]
THE VERDICTYou've done the work. The market hasn't been told.
WHAT IT COSTS YOUBuyers meet a hostile review page and a price you never set before they meet you.
THE ONE MOVEPublish a credible price this week. It reclaims the narrative and costs nothing.
THREE FIXES
  1. Pricing page live. Marketing, 7 days.
  2. Leadership reply on the review surface. CEO, 14 days.
  3. Claim the category search pages. Marketing, 90 days.
Where the proof sits: 51 primary-source captures, one behind every lineOpen

Three options. None built for the decision you need to make this week.

The companies that need competitive intelligence most are the ones who can't get it. That is the gap. Rathvane was built for the companies that live in it.

LARGE STRATEGY FIRMS

Months. Six figures. You are an account.

Excellent work, for companies large enough to be worth their time.

AI TOOLS ON THEIR OWN

Minutes. A summary. No one to call.

No sourcing, no accountability, and no one to call when the answer is wrong.

MONITORING DASHBOARDS

Alerts. Not intelligence.

They track and organize. They do not think, and they leave the work to you.

RATHVANE

Days. Synthesized. Sourced. Someone who knows your name.

Built for the companies that live in the gap.

Yes, we use AI. No, you can't get this from a prompt.

The same models you use are part of our infrastructure. What they produce on their own is a draft nobody checked. Here is what sits between that draft and finished intelligence.

WHAT A PROMPT GIVES YOU

A fluent draft in thirty seconds.

It answers from what it already believes. It does not know the date it looked, cannot show you the page, and will give you a number it never saw. When it is wrong, there is no one to call.

WHAT WE ADD

A system built to stop the model doing what models do.

A method decides what to gather. Every claim gets a dated capture. Every number is checked against a primary source. Eighty-six checks hunt for overclaiming. Review rounds. Freshness rules. A person signs off.

WHAT IT COSTS US

Two years, then days per engagement.

Two years building the system before the first engagement shipped. Days of machine time and hours of human judgment on each one. That is why it is priced like work, and still a fraction of a strategy firm.

In one diagnostic, the first-pass profitability figures for all five competitors were wrong, two with the sign flipped, each citing a real investor document. The checks caught all five before a person saw them.Read why a prompt can't do this
The evidence locker

A machine cannot take your word for it. Neither should your board.

Behind every finding sits a dated capture: the answer, the prompt, the date, and the source it leaned on. A skeptical reader can click any sentence and land on the evidence. Claims are fact-checked against primary sources before you read them. Where something is uncertain, the deliverable says so.

Finding 03 · Gap3 captures

Competitors are setting your price.

The pricing page returns a 404. A competitor's comparison post lists the company at a monthly price it never published, and four aggregator sites have copied the number. The company has not published a price, so it cannot refute one either.

The 404 response, as servedView
The competitor's comparison pageView
Four aggregators repeating the priceView
From a 2026 diagnostic, anonymized. Each capture carries its prompt, date, and a content hash.
Your consultant in a box

What you read is visible above the surface. The rest is beneath, and it answers back.

Every deliverable ships with its own consultant: an assistant trained on your engagement that answers the question you actually have, which is usually "where do I start?" It holds 60 to 70 percent more research than appears on the page. Every statement it makes is fact-checked against primary sources.

AI is our infrastructure, the way imaging is a surgeon's. Faster and more precise. The judgment is ours.

Visible above the surfaceThe finished intelligence
Waterline
Beneath the surface60 to 70 percent more research

Captures, sources, working analysis and cross-checks, available to the virtual consultant on request.

How Ask Rathvane works

The partner in the room, for the price of the work.

  • Trained on your engagement only: the deliverable, the captures, and the research beneath it.
  • Answers "where do I start" first, then tells you who owns the fix and by when.
  • Every answer names the captures it leaned on. If the evidence is thin, it says so.
  • Stays with the deliverable, so the question you have in March gets the same answer as the one in January.
INCLUDED WITH EVERY ENGAGEMENTHow Ask Rathvane works

Pricing we publish. If we don't, someone else will.

Three entry prices, set by the depth of the work. Tiers and add-ons are on the page before the first call. Published prices apply to companies up to $100M in revenue.

Public-data products
From $3,150 $4,500

Public Perception and Industry Outlook. Built from public and subscribed sources in three to six days. The usual first purchase.

Standard strategy products
From $5,250 $7,500

Positioning, Agent Readiness, Go-to-Market, Brand, Sales, Pricing, Digital Growth. One structured method each, five to ten days.

Deep, multi-system products
From $8,750 $12,500

Competitive Intelligence, Growth Strategy, Capital Strategy. Competitive Intelligence runs Core, Extended and Full to $29,500.

Add-ons published too: $1,250 per competitor, segment or channel; $1,750 per market; $2,750 per product line, brand or business unit. The free snapshot stays free.Estimate your engagement in three questions
Founding client rate: 30% off every published price through December 31, 2026. Backed by the guarantee: if we do not provide you value, you do not pay us a dime.
If we do not provide you value, you do not pay us a dime

From question to intelligence in days.

01

You bring the problem

Share one brief, route a multi-person intake, or share nothing at all. All three produce finished intelligence. The depth of calibration is your choice.

02

We run structured analysis

Not a generic research pass. Analysis built around your market, your competitors and your decision, with every claim captured and checked.

03

You receive intelligence you can act on

What is happening, what it means for you, and what your options are. Plus the consultant that holds the rest.

Who we serve

Built for companies that deserve better than being ignored.

Growth-stage, Series B through pre-IPO. Windows open and close in weeks.
Mid-market companies. Real competition, never given access to structured intelligence.
PE operating partners. Twelve companies, one question, portfolio scale.
Larger companies with one time-sensitive question. More than a dashboard, less than an engagement.

Tell us what you're facing.

No RFP. Tell us the decision and what intelligence would change how you make it.

Or the free one-page snapshot: what the machines say about you.