40 Crayon Testimonials

“Doing nothing or doing ad-hoc work doesn’t cut it and is purely reactionary, so the cost of doing nothing becomes expensive. Instead, an impactful CI program starts with the right intel, being able to clearly identify who you're tracking, consistently track their movement, how to organize it and absorb it and tweak it. We felt like Crayon gave us the best opportunity to track at scale and even more critically — to help us transfer our intel to exceptional enablement, training, and battlecard initiatives and programs.”

"Crayon helps us scan our highly competitive, ever-changing category and stay on top of news and insights that matter."

"When it was time to procure CI software at Alteryx, I immediately reached out to Crayon. I looked at others, like Klue. But at the end of the day, scalability was a big factor while making this decision. Crayon lets us scale to thousands of go-to-market colleagues we want to support with CI. To create a company-wide culture of CI, having access and driving adoption is critical."

“While it’s still early days for incorporating AI into our CI workflows, tracking our competitor’s AI moves — such as new messaging and product releases — became a top priority this past year. As AI continues to dominate the dialogue, CI leaders will be expected to stay ahead of the new AI developments but also understand and be able to advise on their implications and potential pitfalls.”

“As we formalized our program centrally, we picked up a lot of the existing programs -- battlecards, sales collateral, sales plays -- and started plugging into them, and putting measure to them in ways we hadn’t been able to before.”

"From the start, Crayon’s flexibility and support have been critical for establishing a strong CI foundation customized to our needs."

“What stood out about Crayon was the ease of information access and filtering. Our competitive landscape is diverse, so in getting our competitive intel, one of the most important things is to be able to search for exactly the information we need."

“The Crayon platform was the clear fit. We knew Crayon could help our teams access the necessary intel to win more competitive deals.”

“Having integrations set up helps the sales team find what they need right when they need it.”

"A sales rep recently told me Kong’s competitive intelligence program is one of the best he’s ever seen."

“The tools we were using didn't have the breadth of intel we needed to understand what our competitors were doing, and the intel wasn't getting surfaced fast enough. We were missing opportunities to get ahead of our competitors and consuming precious resources chasing down intel."

"I’d estimate over the last year we’ve used Crayon, there have been at least five big pieces of news – major scoops – that we would have just missed without it."

"We can now proactively provide our distributors with the intelligence and guidance they need when coming up against competitors in hospital bid situations."

“AI is incredibly promising and can be helpful today for content summarization, but is still a long way from credibly conducting win/loss interviews by itself. Until it has feelings — not just the ability to sense them in others, but to experience them itself — it will lack the dignity that I believe is essential to a meaningful human connection.”

"The Competitive Center of Excellence is an invaluable resource to our sales team. Knowing we have people and software continuously analyzing the competitive landscape enables our team to sell with confidence, and provides us with the right intel, for the right situation, at the right time."