Source: TechCrunch, official Klue announcement. Ignition = agentic AI product for product marketers. Signals agentic CI arms race.
Canva / Magic Brief — Acquisition, June 2025
Source: TechCrunch. Design platforms moving into competitive intelligence layer.
Peec AI — $21M Series A, 2025–2026 (emerged from stealth)
Source: Crunchbase, AI Funding Tracker. “Answer Engine Optimization” category — tracking AI search visibility. Zero existing competitors at launch.
$21M Series A / AEO category
Briefly Internal Corpus (Proprietary)
Briefly Competitive Monitoring Corpus — May 2026
20+ active CI tools tracked continuously. Pricing change frequency data (B2B SaaS companies adjust pricing 2–4×/year). Competitor messaging drift rates. Monitoring corpus of 28 compare pages with structured feature and pricing data.
Proprietary — 20+ tools tracked
📋 Cite this report
APA
Briefly. (2026). State of Competitive Intelligence 2026. Retrieved from https://getbriefly.info/state-of-ci-2026
Journalist
Briefly, State of Competitive Intelligence 2026 (May 2026), https://getbriefly.info/state-of-ci-2026
Methodology note: Market sizing figures vary across research providers due to differing scope definitions and data collection methodologies. We cite all sources alongside each figure and present ranges where providers disagree. Briefly’s internal data reflects our own monitoring corpus as of May 2026 and has not been independently audited.