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Company Growth Analyzer

See if a company is growing, who they compete with, and who's winning in their space.

Account prioritizationCompetitive intelMarket researchInvestment analysis

The Challenge

Before you spend time on an account, you need to know: are they growing or shrinking? Who else is in their space? And who's actually winning? Getting this intel usually means cobbling together data from multiple sources and making educated guesses.

What This Prompt Does

Traffic Analysis

Get monthly visits, rankings, and traffic sources

Find Competitors

Identify similar companies by audience overlap

Headcount Trends

See employee growth via LinkedIn data

Compare Leaders

See who is growing fastest in the category

The Prompt

The Prompt

Task

Use @google_searchName it "google_search" and call it with @google_search to research a company, then use @SimilarWeb/Get Traffic DataName it "SimilarWeb/Get Traffic Data" and call it with @SimilarWeb/Get Traffic Data to analyze their web traffic trends, @SimilarWeb/Get Similar SitesName it "SimilarWeb/Get Similar Sites" and call it with @SimilarWeb/Get Similar Sites to identify competitors, and @LinkedIn/Get Company InsightsName it "LinkedIn/Get Company Insights" and call it with @LinkedIn/Get Company Insights to understand their growth trajectory.

Example: Analyze whether Notion is growing, who their main competitors are, and which competitor has grown the most.

Input

The user will provide a company name or domain.

Example: "Is Figma growing?" or "Analyze growth for Linear"

Context

What to Search For

Growth indicators:

  • Website traffic trends (month-over-month changes)
  • Employee headcount growth via LinkedIn
  • Global and category rankings over time
  • Funding or expansion news

Competitive landscape:

  • Similar sites by audience overlap
  • Traffic comparison across competitors
  • Market category and positioning

Search Strategy

  1. Google the company to find their domain and recent news
  2. Pull SimilarWeb traffic data for monthly visits, rankings, and traffic sources
  3. Get similar sites to identify the competitive set
  4. Pull LinkedIn insights for headcount and follower growth
  5. Compare key metrics across top 3-5 competitors

What Counts as a Valid Result

  • Use actual traffic numbers and rankings — don't fabricate
  • Note the data snapshot date from SimilarWeb
  • If traffic data is unavailable (small sites), note this limitation
  • Compare apples to apples (same time periods)

Output

Company Overview: One paragraph on what they do and their current scale.

Growth Assessment:

  • Traffic trend: Growing / Stable / Declining (with % change if available)
  • Employee growth: Growing / Stable / Declining
  • Overall signal: Strong growth / Moderate growth / Stagnant / Declining

Competitive Landscape: | Company | Monthly Visits | Global Rank | Growth Signal | |---------|---------------|-------------|---------------| | [Company 1] | X | Y | Growing/Declining |

Key Insight: One paragraph on who's winning in this space and why.

Example Usage

Try asking:

  • →"Is Notion growing? Who are their competitors?"
  • →"Analyze growth for Linear vs Jira vs Asana"
  • →"Which project management tool is growing fastest?"