# The Alertedly Blog

> Field notes on competitive intelligence: how to watch competitors, portfolio companies and markets without drowning in noise. Published by Alertedly (https://alertedly.com), a weekly competitive-intelligence service for startups and venture capital firms.

Every post is also available as raw markdown by adding `.md` to its URL. The full text of all posts is at https://blog.alertedly.com/llms-full.txt.

## Guides

- [Competitor monitoring tools in 2026: an honest comparison](https://blog.alertedly.com/competitor-monitoring-tools.md): The four kinds of competitor monitoring tools (free alerts, page monitors, enterprise CI platforms and weekly research services) compared, with real prices.
- [How to track competitors: website changes, hiring, ads and launches](https://blog.alertedly.com/how-to-track-competitors.md): A channel-by-channel guide to tracking competitors' website changes, pricing, hiring, ads, trademarks and launches, with free methods and a weekly checklist.

## Venture capital

- [Portfolio monitoring for VC firms: tracking portfolio and dealflow from the outside in](https://blog.alertedly.com/portfolio-monitoring-for-vc-firms.md): How VC firms monitor portfolio and dealflow companies week to week with public signals, with a real example, a signal-to-question playbook and a weekly process.

## Alertedly

- [Product overview](https://alertedly.com/llms.txt): What Alertedly does, channels, plans, MCP server and API.
- [Pricing](https://alertedly.com/pricing): Starter $199/month (5 companies), Pro $499/month (15 companies).
- [Free report](https://alertedly.com/#free-report): One free competitive-intelligence report on any company.