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MNTNCrayonCompetitive Intelligence Platform0 → 1 Case study · 2025

MNTN's first Compete Program: GTM 0 → 1

Building a competitive intelligence engine from scratch, and getting a 500-person revenue org to actually use it.

01

The Gap

Sales was flying blind on competitive deals. Reps were googling mid-call, messaging was inconsistent across the org, and winnable opps were slipping. I validated the gap with sales leaders, front-line reps, and win/loss trends.

02

The Bet

Built the business case and secured C-suite budget for a 3P competitive intelligence platform. Evaluated the market end-to-end and chose Crayon for its monitoring edge, emerging-tech roadmap, and rep-friendly UX.

03

The Build

Stood the program up solo. Shipped 22 competitor battlecards in month 1 covering positioning, key differentiators, objection handling, and discovery questions. Soft-launched with 25 expert sellers to iterate and ensure stickiness.

04

The Adoption Hook

Led a company-wide enablement session, then shipped a weekly Slack digest of competitor moves, market shifts, and top angles to win, delivered where sellers already lived. Engagement spiked every digest day.

Program impact to dateLaunched Q1 2025
$8MM+

Influenced revenue since launch

38

Competitor cards live to date

~500

Employees enabled org-wide

Weekly

Slack digest cadence

Battlecard count & influenced revenue

BattlecardsInfluenced $ (cumulative)
010203040$0M$2M$4M$6M$8M222731343638$0.3M$1.1M$1.8M$3.6M$5.9M$8.0MQ1 '25Q2 '25Q3 '25Q4 '25Q1 '26Q2 '26
05Why it stuck

A platform is only as good as the education and adoption ritual around it.

  • Soft-launched with 25 expert sellers before going wide, so every battlecard shipped with real rep language.
  • Weekly Slack digest lived where reps already worked, no new tab, no new login.
  • Every card tied to positioning, objection handling, and discovery questions, not just feature comparisons.
  • Program impact tracked in the same dashboards leadership already reviewed for revenue.