Competitors

A competitor is a domain. probr does the rest — works out what the company is, what it sells, who it competes with — and then watches it every day.

Adding one#

Enter a domain from the Competitors screen. globex.com works, so does https://globex.com/pricing; probr reduces either to the company.

Use the company's main domain rather than a subdomain. stripe.com, not docs.stripe.com — the docs site is one thing the company publishes, and pointing at it narrows probr to that one thing.

The competitor is analyzing for a few minutes while it is profiled, then ready. Profiling happens once. You do not need to stay on the screen.

If it comes back failed, the site could not be read. In practice that is one of three things:

• The domain was mistyped, or it does not resolve.
• The site is behind a login wall, so there is nothing public to read.
• Bot protection is refusing every request.

The first is fixable by you. The other two are not, from either side.

Pausing versus removing#

These are different, and the difference is permanent one way.

Pause stops the daily sweep for that competitor. Its past signals stay, the feed keeps them, and you can resume whenever. It is the right move for a competitor you are not thinking about this quarter but do not want to lose the history for.

Remove deletes the competitor and everything derived from it — its signals, its articles, its snapshots. It cannot be undone.

The thing to know: a paused competitor still occupies one of your slots. The count is of competitors, not of active ones. If you are at five on Starter, pausing one does not let you add another; you have to remove it.

That is deliberate — the alternative is a "pause" that quietly destroys history — but it does surprise people, so it is worth saying twice.

What neither does to your bill#

Nothing. The price is per plan, not per competitor, so the number you are watching does not move what you pay. Adding one inside your plan is free and immediate, with no charge and no confirmation step; removing one frees the slot and returns nothing, because nothing was charged for it.

What changes the bill is changing plans, and that is one click in Settings that shows you the amount first. Plans and limits covers it properly.

How many to watch#

Fewer than you think.

Plans are sized by competitor count because probr is built for a short list read properly. Five competitors produce a brief someone reads on Monday. Twenty-five produce a brief nobody finishes, at a higher price, and the additional twenty are mostly companies you would not have changed a decision over.

If you are unsure, start on Starter. Its five slots are more than most teams fill, and moving up is one click on the day you actually need it.