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Make a competitive analysis
Turn LinkedIn posts into a competitive analysis
Your competitors' employees post about their own roadmap. So do their customers.
Free to try, no card. Your LinkedIn post opens in Ancher.
Full post bodyAuthor and their roleAttached images and documents
Kept in parts
Every one of these stays separately addressable instead of collapsing into one block of text.
PlayersPositioningFeature matrixPricing
Competitive analysis
A side-by-side read on rivals: positioning, features, pricing, and the space nobody occupies.
Product managers announce what they shipped, sales people post about deals they won, and customers write up migrations — all with their employer visible on the profile. Ancher collects every product named, tags each author as a builder, a seller or a user based on their stated role, fills a matrix cell only from first-hand accounts, and keeps pricing slides with their dates.
The honest version
Half of what you find is written by someone who works there
On this network the person praising a product often lists it as their employer two lines above the praise. That is not a problem to filter out — it is the most reliable role signal any competitive source gives you — but a matrix that treats an employee's launch post and a customer's migration post as the same evidence is producing marketing copy with a grid around it.
One post, at slide 4/9, read two ways.Illustrative. The figure is invented; the gap it falls into is not.
We migrated off them in Q2. The thing that finally forced it was
On slide 4 of the carousel — not readThe specific never reaches the draft
Competitive analysis
On slide 4 of the carousel
No SSO below Enterprise
from slide 4/9
Lands in the draft, with its timecode
- Every author is tagged builder, seller or user from the role and employer they state.
- A matrix cell is filled only from a first-hand account of using the feature, never from an announcement.
- Prices from carousel slides carry the post's date, so a change from last year is not read as current.
What comes out
Competitive analysis, section by section
A side-by-side read on rivals: positioning, features, pricing, and the space nobody occupies.
Players
Every product named, split into ones an author used and ones only mentioned.
Positioning
How each rival is described by users, kept apart from how its own employees describe it.
Feature matrix
Feature by product, filled only from first-hand accounts and left empty otherwise.
Pricing
Prices seen in slides, each with the date of the post.
Whitespace
Complaints recurring across users of different products that nobody answers.
LinkedIn-to-competitive-analysis prompt
The link on its own gets a summary. This is the instruction that produces the 5 sections above, in that order, with the rules that keep them honest. Paste it with your LinkedIn posts — in Ancher, or in whatever assistant you already use.
Build a competitive analysis from these posts. (1) List every product named, split into used and mentioned. (2) Describe positioning in users' words, kept separate from employees' descriptions. (3) Fill a matrix cell only from a first-hand account of use; leave it empty otherwise and never fill it from a launch post. (4) Record prices from carousel slides with post dates. (5) List unanswered gaps. Tag every author builder, seller or user from their stated employer.
The detail, if you want it
How each part of a LinkedIn post becomes a section
| From the LinkedIn post | Into | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Author and their role | Players | The stated employer decides whether an account is a customer's experience or a company's announcement, and the two do not belong in the same column. |
| Attached images and documents | Feature matrix | Migration write-ups attach screenshots of the actual settings screen, which is the only first-hand proof a feature exists. |
| Attached images and documents | Pricing | Pricing tiers get posted as carousel slides, and a post-text scrape returns none of them. |
| Linked pages | Positioning | Which product page a poster linked shows what they actually evaluated rather than what they named. |
| Reactions and comments | Whitespace | A complaint that drew reactions from people in the same role is a shared gap rather than one team's configuration. |
Everything Ancher keeps from a LinkedIn post
Full post body
LinkedIn truncates behind See more in the feed; the saved copy is the whole thing.
Author and their role
On LinkedIn the stated job title is the single most useful piece of context for judging a claim.
Attached images and documents
Carousel PDFs and slides carry the substance while the post text carries the hook.
Reactions and comments
In a professional feed, engagement tracks what practitioners recognise as a real problem.
Linked pages
Posts that link out to a report or a product page give you the primary source to check.
The four steps
- Add the LinkedIn post. Paste the post or article URL, including an lnkd.in short link. Ancher resolves it, then keeps the body, the author, attached media, and the reaction counts as one source.
- Nothing gets flattened. Full post body, author and their role, attached images and documents, reactions and comments, linked pages stay separately addressable instead of collapsing into one block of text.
- Ask for a competitive analysis. Ancher fills players, positioning, feature matrix, pricing, whitespace using the mapping above, not a generic summary pass.
- Check it before you use it. Every specific keeps a link back to where it came from in the LinkedIn post, so a claim can be verified without reopening the source.
Where this goes wrong
- Launch posts describe intent, not shipped behaviour. An announcement is not evidence a feature works, and it does not fill a cell.
- Comment threads are not captured, and on competitor posts the correction from a rival's employee is usually in the replies.
- People rarely post about leaving a product quietly. This source over-represents dramatic migrations and under-represents steady satisfaction.
Questions people ask
Is this better than a review site?
It is earlier and more specific about why someone switched, and much worse for coverage. Review sites capture routine satisfaction; this feed captures the migrations, the launches and the arguments, which is a biased but useful slice.
How do you know who the author works for?
From the profile attached to the post. It is self-reported rather than verified, so the analysis records the apparent role and marks an unclear one as unclear instead of assuming.
Why are some matrix cells empty?
Because no user described using that feature first-hand. An empty cell is a finding, and filling it from the vendor's own launch post is precisely the mistake this analysis exists to avoid.
Bring your own LinkedIn posts
Everything you save lives in one workspace, so the competitive analysis is built from your sources — not from a model's memory of the internet.
Open Ancher →Not a LinkedIn post? The same competitive analysis also comes from YouTube video, X thread, Instagram post.