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Competitive Intelligence, Reimagined for SME Leaders

Our goal is to make high-quality, trustworthy B2B competitive intelligence accessible to businesses that do not have the resources to employ a dedicated intelligence team or commission expensive consultancy projects. Built by founders with more than 40 years of combined experience across Competitive Intelligence, technology and business strategy, CI Director will bring together proven human expertise and modern AI technology to help SME leaders understand their competitors, identify market changes and make better-informed decisions.

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From Decades of Experience to a New AI Platform

SME leaders know that tracking competitor movements is vital to their survival and growth. Yet, doing so effectively can drain limited time and capital.

Large companies can employ specialist research teams, subscribe to enterprise intelligence platforms, and commission detailed competitor studies. Most SMEs cannot.

We are developing CI Director to bridge that gap. By translating more than 40 years of combined professional experience into a practical, user-friendly platform, we give decision-makers direct access to timely, evidence-based CI and make competitive intelligence for B2B companies more accessible.

This tool does not replace your expert judgment. Instead, it is designed to do the heavy lifting, making trusted intelligence faster and more accessible for the people responsible for making crucial business decisions.

What CI Director Will Do

Ask Strategic Questions

Ask questions about competitors, markets, products, pricing, customers and emerging threats using straightforward, natural language, supporting effective B2B competitor analysis and competitor pricing analysis.

Monitor Competitors

Continuously monitor selected competitors and receive alerts when important changes, announcements or market signals are identified.

Combine Public and Private Intelligence

Analyse trusted public sources alongside a your own securely controlled internal documents and business information.

Provide Evidence-Based Answers

Responses will be supported by identifiable sources and confidence indicators, and clearly flag limitations, helping users distinguish verified intelligence from assumptions or incomplete information.

Produce Executive Reports

Generate concise reports, competitor profiles, market updates, competitive landscape analysis, strategic briefings and board-ready intelligence packs instantly.

Turn Intelligence into Action

Understand not only what has happened, but why it matters and what strategic and tactical actions you should consider.

Built Specifically for SMEs

CI Director is designed from the ground up for busy leaders who need straightforward answers, not complex software configurations.
Fast answers to business-critical questions about your competitive environment and support more informed business competitor analysis
Clear, concise, executive-level insights
Evidence and source attribution
Secure integration of private company information
Automated competitor and market monitoring
Strategic alerts when material changes occur
Regular and on-demand intelligence reports
An affordable, easy-to-use alternative to enterprise CI systems.
Our objective is to give SMEs access to intelligence capabilities traditionally reserved for much larger organisations.

Currently Building Our MVP

CI Director is an early-stage, founder-led technology venture.

We are currently developing a demonstration platform and Minimum Viable Product. The MVP will be trialled with a selected group of SME CEOs and business leaders.

These trials will allow us to:

  • Evaluate the usefulness and accuracy of the outputs
  • Develop appropriate security, validation and AI guardrails
  • Understand the competitive questions CEOs need answered most often
  • Test how leaders interact with AI-powered intelligence
  • Refine the user experience and reporting formats
  • Prioritise the features that provide the greatest business value
The feedback from these initial users will directly shape the development of the commercial CI Director platform.

An AWS-Native AI Platform

We intend to develop CI Director using a secure, scalable AWS cloud architecture.

The proposed platform will use services including:

Amazon Bedrock for generative AI capabilities
Amazon Bedrock Agents for intelligence workflows
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for responsible AI controls
Amazon S3 for secure document and intelligence storage
Amazon DynamoDB for application and customer data
AWS Lambda for serverless processing
Amazon EventBridge for monitoring and automated workflows
Private Retrieval-Augmented Generation to combine approved public and customer-owned information
Each customer environment will be securely separated, with access controls designed to protect confidential company information.

Why We Are Building CI Director

Competitive Intelligence is not simply about collecting more information.

Competitive Intelligence is not simply about collecting more information.

• What competitors are doing
• Why they are doing it
• How the market is changing
• Which threats require attention
• Where new opportunities may be emerging
• What their business should do next
Our founders have spent decades helping organisations answer these questions. CI Director will turn that experience, methodology and judgement into a scalable AI-enabled product that brings market and competitive intelligence within reach of the SME market.

Founder-Led and Experience-Driven

CI Director is being created by a team that brings more than 40 years of combined experience across CI, market research, technology, cloud platforms and strategic decision support.

ChrisalysWorks also provides specialist CI consultancy services. This work gives us direct insight into the challenges businesses face and provides the domain knowledge on which CI Director is being built. CI Director is a new and distinct software product venture. Its objective is to transform a traditionally expert-led service into an accessible and scalable AI platform for SME CEOs and business leaders.

Help Us Shape the Future of
Competitive Intelligence

We are looking for SME CEOs and leadership teams interested in participating in our early demonstration and MVP trials.

Trial participants will have an opportunity to test the platform, explore relevant competitive questions and help influence the features and workflows included in future releases.

Register your interest in the CI Director CEO trial programme.

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