For corporate development teams
Competitive intelligence for corporate development teams
Competitive intelligence for corporate development means a current, sourced view of the companies you might buy, partner with or compete against. MarketAgent builds target lists and adjacent market maps, profiles each company from public sources and watches your pipeline daily.
New research
ExampleList privately held companies offering warehouse robotics software in Europe with fewer than 300 employees
Jobs to be done
Where corporate development saves the most time
01
Build long lists of acquisition targets
Describe the capability or segment you want and get a list of companies with size signals, funding history and positioning. Each entry links to the public sources behind it.
02
Map adjacent markets before an expansion
A market map shows segments, players and where the white space is. TAM, SAM and SOM with a written method support the business case.
03
Keep the pipeline current
Targets and competitors are checked daily for funding rounds, executive hires, launches and acquisitions. When a target raises money or gets bought, you hear about it as an alert.
04
Prepare for steering and board discussions
Monthly briefs summarise what moved across the pipeline and the market. PDF exports and share links put the evidence in front of decision makers.
Example questions
What corporate development teams ask MarketAgent
Type a question in plain language. The answer comes back as a structured report with a source and capture date on every fact.
“List privately held companies offering warehouse robotics software in Europe with fewer than 300 employees”
“Which competitors of ours acquired companies in the last 24 months and what capabilities did they buy”
“Map the market for embedded payments in vertical software and size the European segment”
“Compare the product lines and pricing of these six potential acquisition targets”
“Which companies in our target list raised a round or hired a new CFO this year”
“What partnerships did the three largest players in identity verification announce in the last year”
For the budget owner
An example calculation of the return
Researching target long lists, maintaining target profiles and mapping adjacent markets for the M&A pipeline. Example calculation assuming 35 hours of research a month at a loaded 125 USD per hour, compared with the Business plan billed yearly, before any banker or consultancy spend avoided.
- Hours saved a month
- 35
- Cost of an hour of corporate development time
- $125
- Time value over a year
- $52,500
- Business plan, billed yearly
- $11,988
35 hours x $125 x 12 months, compared with the yearly price. An example, not a promise. Your numbers depend on how much research you do today.
Which plan fits
Business, from $999 a month billed yearly
Business monitors 100 companies daily, includes 20 market maps a month, share links, 15 seats and an audit log, which suits a pipeline of targets plus the competitive set. Enterprise adds the API, webhooks and data feed for teams that load the data into their own systems.
Questions
Questions from corporate development teams
Corporate development teams pair competitor profiles with market trend tracking to see consolidation early. The market research software guide explains how this compares with buying studies, and strategy teams often share the same workspace for market entry work.
Run your first market map today
Start with the demo on the homepage, then choose a plan when the first competitors are on the map.