Let’s look at some examples of competitive analyses.
1. Competitive Landscape & Positioning
Competitive landscapes tend to be visual and make it easy to see the gaps between your product and the industry. Typically, you want to select two most important criteria that the industry competes on and then compare across them.
Note: Some of the text in the callout boxes in the example screenshots is not that relevant. Normally, the text bubbles are for observations on either UX, messaging, or anything notable about the experience.
Example Screens: Dropbox Signup Flow
In your research, you would want to walk through every single step in the flow and make observations.
3. Feature Comparison
A more detailed feature-by-feature comparison
Typically done in a spreadsheet or table
Example: Feature Comparison Table
4. Business Model & Pricing
See the feature comparison table above, pricing and revenue models can be included as part of a table such as this