FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.
How is this different from Crayon or Klue?
Crayon and Klue are competitive intelligence suites priced at $10-30K/year for enterprise sales teams. They need an admin to configure battlecards, train the model, and curate the feed. A solo founder doesn't have that. Tycoon's AI CMO runs the same kind of monitoring as a workflow that costs you $0 to set up — you name the competitors in chat, and it builds the pipeline itself. The digest is tuned for founder attention (5 things that matter) not sales team enablement (20 battlecards).
Will competitors know I'm watching them?
No. The AI CMO accesses publicly available data — their pricing page, blog, changelog, GitHub releases, LinkedIn posts, Product Hunt launches. Everything a customer or prospect could see. We don't use fake accounts, don't scrape authenticated surfaces, and don't try to get inside their product. It's the same kind of monitoring their own marketing team does of you. If you want to compare feature functionality you can always sign up for their free tier with a founder email, but the AI won't do that on your behalf without asking.
What if my competitors are private/closed (no public pricing, no changelog)?
The AI CMO adapts. For closed competitors it leans on secondary signals: G2/Trustpilot reviews (users describe features), Glassdoor (employees describe product), LinkedIn job posts (hiring reveals roadmap), Twitter (founders leak things), press releases, and patent filings. The signal is noisier than a public changelog but still provides 2-3 weeks of lead time on major moves. One SkillBoss user discovered a competitor's pricing revamp 5 weeks early because the competitor posted a 'pricing strategist' role on LinkedIn.
How does this compare to Polsia and Paperclip's competitor tracking?
Polsia has no structured competitor monitoring — you'd have to build it yourself as a freeform agent task. Paperclip supports it only if you configure the scrapers, schedules, diff logic, and summarization prompts manually, then maintain them as competitor sites change. Tycoon treats competitor monitoring as a first-class workflow: the AI CMO owns the output, handles source changes (competitor migrates to a new CMS? AI adapts), and persists the competitor list in memory. You get a 1-page digest; you don't get a configuration project.
How often should competitor intel get reviewed?
Daily digest for active category leaders (where one pricing change or launch could reshape your quarter). Weekly for tier-2 competitors. Monthly for adjacent/potential competitors. Tycoon configures the cadence per competitor — you don't need a human-prioritized list because the AI COO escalates signals in real-time regardless of the scheduled digest. Most founders find they spend 15-20 minutes/week on competitor intel under this setup vs 2-4 hours previously.