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PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly find gaps in your UK competitors’ offerings.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

1 hourto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA research tool such as Perplexity is an alternative for finding and citing public competitor information; no price is supplied in the available tool data.

If this goes wrong: you treat a visible feature difference as a valuable market gap and spend product or marketing effort solving a problem customers do not have.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the current UK websites for each competitor and save the URLs for their product, pricing, features, support, terms and customer evidence pages.
    2. Gather your own current product description, price list, target customer, service area, onboarding process, support offer and known customer complaints or requests.
    3. Paste the competitor URLs and your own information into the prompt, and ask the AI to cite each factual comparison to a specific source.
    4. Ask the AI to produce the comparison table first, then separate verified differences from inferred gaps and rank the hypotheses by evidence rather than apparent novelty.
    5. Open every cited competitor page and compare its current wording, pricing and feature claims with the table, removing any claim that is unsupported or out of date.
    6. Test the remaining gaps with UK customers through interviews, review analysis or a small proposition test before changing the product, pricing or marketing.

    Prompt

    Analyse gaps in the offerings of these UK competitors: [competitor names and URLs]. Compare them with our offering: [company, target customer, product, price, service area and current strengths]. Use only information you can cite from the supplied material or current public pages. Create a table covering target customer, core job, main features, pricing, onboarding, support, integrations, limitations, trust signals and notable omissions. Separate verified facts from your inferences. Identify up to five possible gaps, and for each give the affected customer, the evidence, why it might matter, what could disprove it, and a confidence level of low, medium or high. Do not claim that a gap is commercially valuable unless the evidence supports that conclusion. End with three practical research actions, such as customer interviews, review analysis or a small landing-page test. Flag anything that needs checking because the source may be old, incomplete or inaccessible. Do not invent prices, features, customer complaints, market sizes or competitor intentions.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • It cannot see private competitor roadmaps, internal performance, sales objections or customer research that is not public.
  • It cannot tell from a missing website feature whether the omission is deliberate, temporary or irrelevant to the target customer.
  • It cannot establish that a gap will create demand without customer evidence or a market test.
  • It can turn stale pages, vague reviews and unequal competitor information into a neat comparison that looks more certain than it is.

What caps this at PARTLY: judgement under ambiguity, verification cost and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta1
Total7 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT analyse my competitors and find gaps?
Partly. It can compare public pages and your supplied information, then produce evidence-backed gap hypotheses, but it cannot confirm that a gap matters to customers or reveal private competitor information.
What information does AI need to analyse competitor gaps?
Give it the competitors’ current URLs, product and pricing pages, customer reviews and any relevant documents, plus your own target customer, offer, price and limitations. The more comparable and current the sources are, the less misleading the comparison will be.
How do I check whether an AI-identified competitor gap is real?
Open the cited pages and check every factual claim against the current source. Then test the remaining hypotheses with customer interviews, review analysis or a small proposition test, because website differences alone do not prove demand.
Can AI decide which competitor gap my business should pursue?
No. AI can rank hypotheses by evidence, customer fit and uncertainty, but you must decide whether the opportunity fits your capabilities, economics, positioning and risk tolerance.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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