40 Crayon Testimonials

“Onboarding to Crayon is so simple and intuitive, it’s easy to find the intel you need and to submit new intel. I would recommend this tool to anyone. Crayon is always the first place I check whenever a customer brings up a competitor, regardless of whether I’m familiar with them already or not.”

"It's addicting. I have six tabs permanently open in my browser, and Crayon is one of them."

"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."

“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.”

“Most battlecard updates are a no-brainer. Of course you make updates when competitors release big announcements and/or your launch a new capability that changes your competitive positioning. Prioritizing when your incorporate other insights can be more challenging considering competitive intel volume. I update Tier One battlecards quarterly and use field intel themes, win/loss findings, and recent wins and displacements to determine what gets added, edited, or even removed from battlecard content.”

“The big ‘aha moment’ for us was the feeds. We started realizing that there was great information coming in that they didn’t have to search for. When we began sharing those insights with the executive team, it spurred support from the top-down.”

“I went into Crayon for the battlecards and got really excited about the competitive insights. They save me so much time. Everything I need is clearly highlighted and easy to incorporate directly back into the battlecards."

"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."

"All of a sudden, people were tagging each other and making suggestions as to how Crayon can help with various projects. And we reached a critical mass—I was getting phone calls left and right from colleagues who, honestly, I hadn’t even thought to reach out to."

"To create an open competitive intelligence model, we decided to meet our internal stakeholders where they spend their time and have competitive conversations. We have Crayon’s battlecards automatically displayed in Highspot and we use the Slack integration to push and capture intelligence out to the field."

“​​The feedback we get from new hires that have used other CI vendors is that Crayon is a more modern day, easy to adopt tool than what they’ve come from, and that it's a huge upgrade from what they’ve used in the past.”

"It used to take sales many hours to find competitive intel and get the information we needed, but now with Crayon and our compete program, we have all the relevant intel at our fingertips to move opportunities forward and win more competitive deals."

"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."

“Crayon has been hugely helpful with conducting competitive research during an opportunity. It allows us to act quickly since we aren’t wasting time searching for this information and rapidly adjusting account strategy for the competitive landscape.”

"Everyone stays informed, even when there are constant shifts in our landscape."