Competitive Intelligence

2nd-level Analytics & Forecasting

Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range/Area: Unlimited; one organization you can identify, or wish to identify, as a competitor
Components: V, S, M (a LinkedIn search history, a leaked pricing sheet, or a former employee’s memory)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
Classes: Data Analyst, VP of Strategy, Product Marketing Manager

You divine a curated picture of a rival organization’s internal metrics, headcount, and strategic priorities, accurate as of some point in the past you cannot precisely determine. While concentrating, you may ask up to three questions about the target, answered with the same reliability as a Dashboard — confidently, and only about whatever the target chose to make visible in the first place.

Casting this spell is what formally qualifies a rival organization as one you “can identify as a competitor” for the purposes of any other spell in this collection that requires it, if you did not already qualify.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you may additionally cast Speak with Former Employee against a former employee of the target as part of this same casting, without needing a separate pre-existing connection to them.

Flavor: “According to their careers page, they’re hiring aggressively for the exact roles we just froze.” — internal Slack message