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Everything new at Parano.ai.

Product updates, shipped in the open. New detectors, sharper analysis, and the occasional fix.

Jun 12, 2026v2.6
NewBeta

Intel Chat

Ask anything about a competitor and get a sourced answer, drawn from the intel we’ve tracked, not generic web search.

  • Intel Chat answers questions about any tracked competitor, with citations back to the underlying activity.
  • Streaming responses with inline source links.
  • Rolling out on Pro. Ask about pricing moves, hiring, positioning shifts and more.
Jun 5, 2026v2.5
New

For You: every move, read against your positioning

We now evaluate each competitor move against your own positioning, then tell you what it means for you and exactly what to do about it. Set up your Positioning Profile once, and your weekly digest gains a prescriptive “For You” section.

The move
S
Stripe launched payment links

No-code checkout pages for non-technical teams.

read against
Your position
SMB self-serveEU-firstDesign-led onboarding
So what?

This lands on your core SMB wedge. Stripe is removing the very technical barrier you compete on, so expect funnel overlap within one to two quarters.

Recommended action
Lead with onboarding speed in your SMB campaigns
Brief sales on EU data-residency + design edge
Watch Stripe for an SMB free tier next
So what? · a move read against your positioning
  • Positioning Profile captures your wedge, segments and edge.
  • “For You” weekly insights group the moves that matter per competitor, each with a recommended play.
  • Own-company auto-provisioning, so setup is a single step.
Jun 4, 2026v2.4
New

Strategic Timeline

Months of competitor activity across pricing, product, people and funding, grouped into the moves that actually shifted the board. Read the whole trajectory at a glance.

Strategic Timeline
Last 6 months
Q2Q3Q4
Pricing
NPlus tier repriced4
Product
AAgents API7
WWorkflow GA5
People
NVP Marketing hire3
Funding
SSeries B6
Strategic Timeline · last 6 months
  • Strategic Timeline with lanes for pricing, product, people and funding.
  • Jump straight from any moment into the underlying activities.
May 21, 2026v2.3
New

Benchmark

The Benchmark plots each competitor across strategic dimensions, so you read their priorities by shape, not by keynote.

Benchmark
6 dimensions
PricingProductBrandPartnersHiringContent
You
Notion
BIGGEST GAP
Content & brand
Benchmark · investment by dimension
  • Benchmark chart across pricing, product, brand, partnerships, hiring and content.
  • A 14-day recent summary above each competitor.
  • Filter the set with chips and focus a single competitor.
Feb 24, 2026v2.2
New

Automatic Battlecards, plus API & MCP

Every competitor now gets a battlecard with Why We Win, their weaknesses, objection handlers and discovery questions, refreshed from the intel we track. And you can pull all of it into your own tools.

Battlecard · Notion
updated weekly
N
vs. Notion
Win rate 62% · 18 deals
▲ refreshed
Why we win
Native data-residency in EU
Sales + exec in one tool
First read in days, not weeks
Their weaknesses
No synthesis, just a raw activity feed
Per-seat costs spike at scale
Objection handlerDiscovery Qs
Battlecard · refreshed from tracked intel
  • Automatic Battlecards with inline citations to the source activity.
  • MCP server to query your intel from Claude, Cursor or any MCP-aware tool.
  • API keys for programmatic access to activities, digests and battlecards.
Feb 17, 2026v2.1
New

Competitive Landscape

Every competitor plotted by activity volume and strategic importance, so the ones drifting into your top-right quadrant get the focus they deserve.

Landscape
activity × importance
SELECTIVEDOMINANTQUIETNOISYACTIVITY →
L
Linear
C
Census
S
Stripe
N
Notion
F
Figma
V
Vercel
Landscape · activity × importance
  • Landscape quadrant view of your whole tracked set.
  • A time slider to animate competitor positions week by week.
Feb 6, 2026v2.0
NewImproved

Narrative weekly briefings, and two new ad sources

Your weekly digest is now a synthesised narrative with inline citations, not just a list. We also started watching the ad libraries.

Executive Summary
weekly
I

Intercom launched a custom-trained AI support bot.

SM

Slack & Miro both shipped new pricing tiers.

W

Webflow raised $120M Series C for no-code.

Executive summary · weekly narrative
  • Narrative weekly briefing with two-step generation and inline citations.
  • Meta Ad Library added as a monitored source.
  • LinkedIn Ads added as a monitored source.
Jan 16, 2026v1.6
New

Change Detection

Before and after of any competitor page (pricing, product, positioning copy), with a written summary of what changed and why it matters.

Change Detection
diff
CHANGE ANALYSIS
 Enterprise: $1,999/mo
+ Enterprise: $2,499/mo
+ Success manager included

Enterprise pricing up 25%, signalling enterprise confidence.

Change detection · diff + AI summary
  • Change detection on any tracked page, with screenshots and diffs.
  • An AI summary of each change.
  • False-positive reduction with perceptual and normalised hashing.
Jan 9, 2026v1.3
New

Slack, Teams, and shareable intel pages

The intel now lands where your team already works, and any tracked activity can become a public, shareable page.

Slack · #intel
A
Anna Mila
Hey team, did you see this pricing update?
T
Tom Chen
Yes, let's cover it in our sync.
Slack · #competitive-intel
  • Slack and Microsoft Teams delivery.
  • Public intel pages from any activity.
  • Webhooks for your own systems.
Jan 2, 2026v1.0
New

Parano, day one: AI competitive digests

We launched. Parano monitors the companies you track, synthesises the moves that matter, and delivers a digest to your inbox.

Latest activity
live
SStripeSIGNAL · HIGH

Launched payment links, letting non-technical teams create checkout pages without writing code. Direct push into the SMB self-serve motion you own.

L
LinearPricing2h

Removed the free-tier seat cap, now unlimited members.

N
NotionHiring5h

Opened 4 enterprise AE roles in NYC + London.

V
VercelProduct1d

Shipped fluid compute on the Pro plan.

Activity feed · scored for strategic weight
  • Hourly monitoring across competitor sites, blogs, changelogs, hiring and more.
  • AI page summarisation that turns raw pages into structured events.
  • Daily and weekly digests by email.