The shortcut: five days. One report. Every move they're making, in plain English.
You name five rivals. We hand back a single document that tells you — rival by rival, channel by channel — what they're doing, how well it's working, and what you can copy, counter, or ignore.
It's not a data dump. Every section is scored, summarised, and tied to a clear next move. You read it once. You know what to do.
What you get in the report
Every rival is scored across the same 8 channels, so you're comparing apples to apples.
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An 8-section scorecard per rival.
Ads, reviews, SEO, social, pricing, website, service gaps, messaging — each scored out of 100 with the evidence attached. So you know exactly where each rival is strong, where they're weak, and where you can move first.
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Every live ad they're running — hook, offer, creative, landing page.
Meta + Google, pulled and categorised by what they're saying and what they're offering. So you can steal winners, skip losers, and never launch a campaign blind again.
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The review complaint patterns nobody's fixing.
Customers are already telling you what's wrong with your competitors — one star at a time. We mine thousands of reviews and show you the repeating themes. So every complaint becomes a door you can walk through.
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Service gaps nobody in your category is filling.
Demand cross-referenced against supply. Where people are buying things your rivals don't sell. So you find the opening before the first-mover closes it.
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The "fear callout" — the one move that should worry you most.
Out of everything we find, one thing matters more than the rest. We call it out explicitly, with the evidence and a response plan. So you know what to fix this Friday, not in six months.
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A ranked 90-day plan — this week, this month, this quarter.
Not 40 "ideas." Actions, prioritised by impact-vs-effort, with the order to run them in. So you leave the report with a calendar, not a headache.
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Plain English. No jargon. No marketing speak.
If your dad can't read it in 40 minutes, we haven't finished. So you don't need a translator to act on it.
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A live online dashboard — with one-click PDF export.
Log in and drill into any specific ad, review, page, or score; export a clean PDF from the dashboard whenever you want one to read offline or forward. So the whole team works off the same picture, not three different meeting summaries.
What a real report looks like
Illustrative preview — your report is built from your 5 named rivals.
Is this for you?
→ Yes if
- ✓ You have 3+ real competitors eating your lead flow
- ✓ You spend $1,000/mo+ on marketing and want to spend it smarter
- ✓ You've made marketing decisions on gut feel and want data behind the next ones
- ✓ You can act on a plan if someone hands you one
- ✓ You want the whole picture in 5 days, not a 3-week agency engagement
→ No if
- ✗ You're pre-revenue and don't know who your competitors even are
- ✗ You want ongoing consulting — this is a one-time report, not a retainer
- ✗ You won't read it or act on it (seriously, don't waste the $517)
- ✗ Your competitors don't have a real online presence to audit
- ✗ You already know exactly what they're doing (then you don't need us)
How it works
Name 5 rivals
You fill a 2-minute brief — 5 competitor URLs, your category, your top concern. Don't know who the 5 are? We'll pick them, you approve.
We go deep for 5 days
Our analysts audit every rival across 8 channels. No stone unturned, no hand-wavy conclusions. Evidence attached to every score.
Your dashboard goes live
A live online dashboard to drill into every rival, ad, review and score — and export a PDF anytime. Your fear callout and 90-day plan open the view.
What customers say
"The fear callout changed our entire Q4 plan — we killed a campaign that was never going to work and ran the one our biggest rival had just tested and paused."
"Copied three of the winning ad angles straight from the report. Doubled our CTR in week one, halved our CPA by month two."
"An agency quoted me $6,000 for the same scope with a 3-week wait. This was $517, five days, and about twice as useful because it wasn't padded with meetings."
"Shared the dashboard with my marketing coordinator and sales lead. First time the three of us have been on the same page about what the competition is doing."
How it stacks up
Same goal — know exactly what your rivals are doing. Three ways to get there.
Do it yourself
- Raw metrics — you interpret them
- One or two channels per tool
- Weeks of digging, on your time
- No "what to do next"
- Keep paying every month
Hire an agency
- A slide deck, padded with meetings
- Depends who you get
- 2–3 weeks to the first answer
- Sometimes actionable
- Starts from zero next time
This report
- A ranked, actionable plan
- All 8 channels, all 5 rivals
- 5 business days, done for you
- Tells you what to do this week, month & quarter
- Yours to keep — no subscription
Here's everything you get for $517
If you hired this out piece by piece — a reviews miner, an ad researcher, an SEO audit, a positioning consultant — you'd pay closer to five grand. We bundle it, run it with our own systems, and charge less because we can.
What's in the box
One-off · no retainer · no upsell calls
Our promise to you
5-day delivery or it's free
Report in your inbox within 5 business days of your brief submission — or full refund. No arguments. No small print. You keep the data.
Private forever
Your report, your rivals, your data — never shared, never aggregated into anyone else's product, never leaked. Not even anonymously. Your moat stays yours.
We cap at 12 full reports per month to keep the 5-day turnaround real. When a cohort fills, new orders roll into next month. If you're reading this and the checkout is active, there's room this month.
Questions people ask before they buy
Who are these reports best for?
Best fit (B2C): local service businesses (plumbers, salons, daycares, clinics, gyms, trades), e-commerce / DTC brands, online service providers selling to consumers, creators and personal brands with a public following, and small SaaS selling to small businesses.
Also works (B2B service-style): agencies, consultancies, professional services (law/accounting), and B2B SaaS — provided you have a meaningful public presence (website, content, LinkedIn, reviews, ads).
Not suitable: B2B industrial / wholesale / trade-only businesses (where sales happen via reps, RFPs and trade shows, not public channels), enterprise-sales-only businesses, and adult content / OnlyFans-style creators (public data on those platforms is too restricted for the quality of report we deliver). If that's you, please don't order — message us at service@barebaysidelabs.com first.
Is $517 really worth it for a one-off report?
If you spend $1,000/mo or more on marketing, the report almost certainly pays for itself the first time it catches a winning ad angle you can copy, a service gap you can fill, or a wasted channel you can cancel. Most customers recoup the $517 in the first month of acting on it.
What if I don't know who my 5 competitors are?
Fill the brief with your category + suburbs and we'll pick the 5 most relevant based on who's actually competing for your customers. You approve the list before we start. If you want to swap any, no problem.
Can't I just do this myself with online tools?
You can — buy the subscriptions, learn them, and run the audits yourself. Most owners don't have the weeks that takes, and the tools hand you raw metrics, not decisions. We do the digging across all 8 channels for you and turn it into meaning: a ranked plan, not a dashboard you're left to interpret. We tell you why a rival is winning, what you can copy, and exactly what to do about it — once, for a flat $517, with nothing to learn and no subscription to cancel.
What if my competitors don't run ads?
The report still works — we score 8 channels. If they're weak on ads, the report calls it out as an opportunity you can exploit. (Plus: "nobody in this category runs ads" is often a lie. When you look properly, there's usually at least one rival running something you hadn't seen.)
Is 5 days really enough to go deep?
Yes, because we've built the pipelines to do the heavy collection in the background while analysts focus on interpretation. If you need it faster, 48-hour rush is available for +$200.
Can I keep this updated after?
That's the plan. Ongoing monitoring — weekly ad moves, plus monthly tracking of local demand, competitor content, and website changes — is launching soon, so you'll be able to add just the feeds that matter to you and skip the rest. See what's coming.
What format is the delivered report?
Your report is a live, private online dashboard — you log in and drill into any rival, ad, review, page, or score, with everything linked back to the source evidence. Want a copy to read offline or send to your team? Export a polished PDF straight from the dashboard in one click. Dashboard first, PDF whenever you need it.
I'm running a small business. Is this overkill?
Only if "overkill" means knowing exactly what the five people eating your lunch are doing, while your competitors guess. Scale doesn't matter — clarity does. If you spend any real money on marketing, you need this.