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Why agents need competitive intelligence

Most agent workflows today look like this:

Agent receives task
→ Calls LLM for reasoning
→ Executes action

But the best decisions require context:

Agent receives task
→ Calls Intelica for market context ($0.05)
→ Calls LLM with enriched context
→ Executes better decision

A VC agent that evaluates 50 startups per day needs to know if each startup's market is defensible. A DeFi trading agent needs to know the competitive moat of a protocol before entering a position. A sales agent needs a battlecard before a live demo.

How it works

1. Call the free demo 

curl -X POST https://api.intelica.dev/demo \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"text": "Notion is an all-in-one workspace for notes, databases, and project management", "mode": "competitive"}'

2. Get structured intelligence 

{"company_or_product":"Notion","positioning_summary":"Notion is a flexible all-in-one workspace...","detected_competitors":["Confluence","Asana","Monday.com"],"unique_angle":"Counter with specialist depth: Notion sacrifices best-in-class...","confidence":"high","sources":["https://example.com/notion-competitors","https://example.com/notion-analysis"],"market_score":{"threat_level":"high","moat_strength":0.72,"market_maturity":"mature","agent_recommendation":"counter"}}

3. Agent acts on agent_recommendation

  • monitor — track their progress, not a direct threat
  • counter — build against them, they're a real threat
  • ignore — not worth your attention
  • partner — potential ally, not a competitor

10 context modes for every use case

Mode Use case Price
competitive General market analysis $0.05
fundraising Investor narrative, TAM, traction signals $0.05
partnership Strategic fit, complementarity $0.05
acquisition M&A due diligence $0.05
market_entry Market saturation, barriers to entry $0.05
crypto_protocol DeFi moat, tokenomics, regulatory risk $0.05
venture_screening Investment thesis + deal-breakers $1.00
regulatory_compliance EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA exposure $1.00
risk_assessment Business model stability, operational risk $1.00
sales_enablement Battlecard + objection handler $1.00

Real output examples

Uniswap under crypto_protocol mode 

{"company_or_product":"Uniswap","market_score":{"threat_level":"high","moat_strength":0.82,"market_maturity":"mature","agent_recommendation":"monitor"},"unique_angle":"Uniswap's v4 hooks architecture and first-mover network effects create defensible liquidity moat, but regulatory risk on governance token is asymmetrically high","detected_competitors":["Curve Finance","dYdX","Balancer"],"sources":["https://...","https://...","https://..."]}

Clearview AI under regulatory_compliance mode 

{"market_score":{"threat_level":"high","moat_strength":0.15,"market_maturity":"declining","agent_recommendation":"monitor"},"user_pain_points":["EU AI Act Article 5 prohibition on real-time biometric identification","GDPR violation — no lawful basis for image scraping","BIPA class action exposure: $1B+"],"unique_angle":"Clearview's competitive advantage — massive unregulated image corpus — is simultaneously its primary regulatory liability"}

Payment via x402

Intelica uses the x402 protocol — HTTP 402 Payment Required. Agents pay autonomously without human intervention.

import httpx

# Step 1: Request without payment → receive 402 challenge
response = httpx.post(
 "https://api.intelica.dev/intel",
 json={"text": "Stripe payment API", "mode": "competitive"}
)
# response.status_code == 402

# Step 2: Pay $0.05 USDC on Base or Solana
# Step 3: Retry with X-PAYMENT header
response = httpx.post(
 "https://api.intelica.dev/intel",
 json={"text": "Stripe payment API", "mode": "competitive"},
 headers={"X-PAYMENT": payment_token}
)
# response.status_code == 200

Supported networks: Base mainnet and Solana mainnet.

LangChain integration 

from langchain.tools import tool
import httpx

@tool
def analyze_competitor(text: str, mode: str = "competitive") -> dict:
 """Analyze a competitor using Intelica. Returns market score and positioning."""
 response = httpx.post(
 "https://api.intelica.dev/intel",
 json={"text": text, "mode": mode},
 headers={"X-PAYMENT": get_x402_token()}
 )
 return response.json()["analysis"]

MCP integration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 

{"mcpServers":{"intelica":{"url":"https://api.intelica.dev/mcp"}}}

Available tools: analyze_competitor, batch_analyze

Advanced: batch analysis 

curl -X POST https://api.intelica.dev/batch \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -H "X-PAYMENT: <token>" \
 -d '{
 "items": [
 {"text": "Notion workspace", "mode": "competitive"},
 {"text": "Confluence Atlassian", "mode": "sales_enablement"},
 {"text": "Monday.com project management", "mode": "competitive"}
 ]
 }'

force_refresh for fast-moving markets 

{"text":"Uniswap v4 AMM protocol","mode":"crypto_protocol","force_refresh":true}

Why Intelica is different from Crayon, Klue, or Kompyte

Crayon/Klue/Kompyte Intelica
Designed for Human analysts Autonomous agents
Price $15K–$40K/year $0.05–$1.00/call
Payment Credit card, contract x402 USDC — autonomous
Output Dashboard, email Structured JSON
Response time Minutes to hours ~5 seconds
API Limited Full REST + MCP + A2A

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