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Crayon Overview

What is Crayon?

Crayon’s award-winning competitive intelligence platform helps your organization see and seize opportunities so you can create a sustainable business advantage. Tens of thousands of teams use Crayon’s software to automatically capture and analyze complete competitive intelligence - external messaging and positioning, product and pricing changes, hiring plans, go-to-market strategies, and more - pulling from hundreds of millions of sources. Manual research is not only time-consuming—it’s also risky. When you’re reliant on human effort, you’re susceptible to missed opportunities and undetected threats. With Crayon, you can automatically capture your competitors’ movements in real time. Tap into more than one hundred different data types across millions of competitive intelligence sources to stay on top of product updates, messaging pivots, executive team changes, and more. To learn more about Crayon, visit www.crayon.co.

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Product Description

Crayon is a competitive intelligence platform that enables businesses to track, analyze, and act on everything happening outside their four walls.


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Crayon
Year Founded
2015
HQ Location
Boston, Massachusetts
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84 employees on LinkedIn®
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Crayon is a competitive intelligence platform that monitors your competitors, alerts you to relevant intel, and enables your sales team to win deals. Market-leading B
B companies—including Gong, Dropbox, and ZoomInfo—use Crayon to win and retain more revenue.


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"A crucial CI tool for product marketers!"
Having a centralized place to keep all of our competitive intel. We couldn't do as efficient of a job enabling the sales team without Crayon. The b...
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Crayon Demo - Get Complete Competitive Insights
Monitor a competitor’s complete digital footprint. Catch any update on or off their website.
Crayon Demo - Market Intelligence Research at Scale
Get 10x more data in 10x less time with Crayon’s software automation. Spend more time analyzing instead of researching.
Crayon Demo - Separate Signal from Noise
Focus on the highest priority updates. Review organized, prioritized, and curated intel.
Crayon Demo - Close More Deals
Learn what works, so you can close more of your most competitive deals.
Crayon Demo - Up-to-date battlecards
Keep your entire organization up-to-date on the most critical intel about your key competitors.
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What do you like best about Crayon?

Having a centralized place to keep all of our competitive intel. We couldn't do as efficient of a job enabling the sales team without Crayon. The battlecards are a nice way to keep everything about a competitor organized and easy to find. Slack insights integration makes pushing field intel to battlecards easy. Email digests help us keep on top of everything happening in the market. Plus, regular check-ins with our rep are the best - the customer service is truly fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

Unfortunately, our organization doesn't use Salesforce as a CRM, so the Impact tool isn't of use to us. This does leave a bit of a gap in integrating and understanding competitive win-loss with Crayon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Understanding your competitors and where you fit is important, but can be time consuming. Crayon helps streamline that process but also even further disseminate the information to stakeholders in an easy-to-digest way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Crayon has been incredibly helpful in obtaining unseen insights on key competitors, and more importantly, being able to look at large sets of data for trends via their new AI tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

I'd like to see more variation in the capabilities that Crayon provides including competitive insights beyond the digital landscape. They should think more broadly and holistically to the elements that make up a full 360 competitive intelligence program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crayon is helping us identify unseen insights and trends that we would not have access to otherwise. Notably, and for any company, we are looking to stay ahead of our competition but also to learn what they are doing to help inform our investments, strategies, and resource allocation. Through the platform, the insights and trends we gather help us within Marketing to better connect with key audiences while tailoring our messages and our Business partners in defining their path forward to engaging with prospects and clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Crayon is a great platform for competitive intelligence and includes a ton of amazing features, to include real-time news feeds, abilities to use AI in many facets, Win/Loss Analyses, integrations with Highspot, Salesforce, and more, great sharing and collaboration features, and last but not least, amazing customer success folks. 🙌🏼 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

I do not have any dislikes about Crayon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crayon keeps all things CI under one umbrella, with greate ease of use, and seuper helpful team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Salesforce integration is helpful for a high level view of Win/Loss, as long as sales is inputting competitive information into Salesforce. Gong mentions are also helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

New CSM is barely there and has not been helpful, no suggestions for streamlining processes or driving adoption. AI features are not helpful, and too little too late compared to competitors. Very manual process of battlecard and intelligence maintenance, no help with standardizing templates. Planning to switch to another tool when our renewal is up. It is not worth the money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Single resource for Competitive intelligence information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Crayon scrapes competitor information daily and sends automated emails with timely and relevant information. Saved searches allow users to narrow in on specific topics of interest.

Crayon's new "researcher" role allows Admins to give organizational users access to "Insights," where they can create their own searches and saved searches.

Crayon's hybrid battle cards make creating and updating battle cards quick and easy.

Crayon also integrates with many well known tech tools, including Slack, Salesforce, and win loss providers (Clozd and Primary Intelligence).

The Crayon team is constantly striving to ensure customers have the tools, resources, and best practices to make their competitive intelligence efforts succeed.

Additionally, the product team at Crayon is at the forefront of updating the interface and platform functionality, including adding new technology such as AI, to ensure the tool remains relevant and useful to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

I get the least amount of functionality from Crayon's "Boards" feature. This is likely more of a reflection of my lack of bandwidth in constructing relevant Boards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crayon helps me keep track of competitors, market trends, and ongoing industry developments. Crayon also helps me quickly and easily create and update battle cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Its the perfect solution for a business at our stage of growth. A genuine need for better, structured and usable information in an accessible way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

nothing so far tbh. We've gotten everything we wanted from the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

our industry has gone through a bit of disruption with AI rapidly becoming more accessible and ultimately expected. We needed to carefully evolve our product set to incorporate the right types of AI and automation tooling that was relevant to our users/use cases, but also make sure we werent losing out to competitors. The nature of what we offer isnt always abundantly clear (more than one way to skin the cat) and so we needed help to stay on top of what our competitors and our market as a whole was wanting/neededing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

making it easier to share logs across the teams and allowing us to adjust quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

More intuitive design is needed for the user interface, which has to be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

providing a comprehensive set of tools for monitoring and evaluating rivals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Crayon offers great market and competitive landscape data regarding our competition and the eCommerce ecosystem that we operate. Very easy and straightforward product to use and has relevant features that allow us to easily add or research regarding the relevant competitors and update battle cards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

The main downside I see is that updating and identifying new competitors for each one of our product lines needs to come from us, and unless we actively update it to be monitored by Crayon it wouldn't automatically appear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crayon saves us time and resources of manually going over all of our competitors' websites, social media, and industry trends and creates a lot of value by doing that and keeping us up-to-date at all times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Crayon offers extensive market insights that help us stay ahead of industry trends and understand our competitors' strategies. This is invaluable for strategic planning and decision-making. We are able to create detailed, up-to-date battlecards that equip our business development team with key information needed to effectively compete in our market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

At times, the sheer volume of data available can be overwhelming, making it challenging to distill the most critical insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously, collecting competitive intelligence was time-consuming and often fragmented. Our business development team lacked detailed, updated information about competitors. Crayon’s battlecards and market insights empower them with the necessary tools to effectively engage with prospects enabling them to successfully counter objections and position our offerings more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crayon?

Crayon helps me stay on top of the dozens of competitors in my industry. I use it daily to surface publicly available insights, but also use it as a data repository and hub for building battlecards and boards specific to certain topics of interest. I really like the latest features including: 1.) Compete Hub to act as a newsfeed for my latest announcements, 2.) the green/yellow/red tags on each battlecard to flag those that I haven't touched in a while and could use a refresh, 3.) the boards that allow me to compile insights related to specific topics that need a home outside of a battlecard, and 4.) the unlimited competitor tracking helps me follow even the smallest competitor and flag those that might begin to emerge in my industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crayon?

The AI tool is great to help me write summaries of insights, but I hope that it can improve by being able to regularly populate (sometimes for things like social posts it may not be able to read the content and generate text). I would also love the ability for easier filtering out of words from competitors with more generic names, as it can often pull in insights not related to that specific competitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crayon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crayon helps provide me with the insights I need to spend more time on strategic activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.