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2 million buyers research software on Spotsaas every year — visiting alternatives pages, benchmarking pricing, building shortlists. They haven't contacted you. They won't, unless you reach them first.

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2M+ buyers visit Spotsaas annually
24,578 software listings
419 software categories
<5 min from research to signal
The problem

Most of your pipeline is shopping
without telling you

Buyers compare vendors, weigh pricing, and build a shortlist long before they fill out a form. By the time a lead lands, the shortlist is already set — and your team is spending its outbound on accounts that were never in-market.

80%
of the B2B buying journey is complete before a buyer ever contacts a vendor.
Source: ISURUS / TrustRadius
83%
of buyers change their initial vendor shortlist as they do their own research.
Source: TrustRadius
77%
say their very first step after identifying a need is independent research.
Source: MarketingProfs
77%
of B2B marketers expect intent data to grow more important over the next two years.
Source: Gartner Digital Markets
The fix

What is buyer intent data?

Buyer intent data is the behavioral signal that shows which companies are actively researching a product or category — before they ever fill out a form. When people at a company read comparison pages, weigh pricing, or dig into alternatives for a type of software, that research is captured as an intent signal. Enough signal from one company means they're in-market — evaluating a purchase right now.

In one line

Intent data answers the question every revenue team wants answered: "Which accounts are in-market for what I sell — today?" Instead of guessing, you see demand that's already happening and reach buyers while they're still deciding.

The two kinds of intent

First-party vs third-party intent data

Intent signal comes from two places. Most teams need both — but the third-party layer is where the hidden demand lives.

First-party
Activity on your own properties
Signal you already own.
  • Visitors on your website and app
  • Opens, clicks and replies in your CRM
  • Form fills, demos and content downloads
  • Only sees buyers who already found you — the last 20% of the journey
Third-party · aggregators
Topic surges across a publisher co-op
Broad reach — e.g. Bombora, G2.
  • Covers research happening off your site, at scale
  • Surfaces accounts before they raise their hand
  • Usually account-level only — no named person
  • A topic "score," not the page they actually read
Spotsaas Buyer Intent
Third-party reach, first-party clarity
The exact session, in your category.
  • The named company behind every research session
  • The buying-committee person who did the research
  • The exact pages: alternatives, pricing, competitors
  • One transparent source — not a black-box co-op

Own every stage from anonymous signal
to closed deal

See the company behind every signal, the people driving the evaluation, and the exact pages they read — then reach them before a competitor even knows the deal exists.

Linear
8m ago
Attio
22m ago
Stripe
Live
Rippling
1h ago
Notion
2h ago
Discover

Find the revenue hiding in your category

See real companies — by name — comparing software in your category on Spotsaas: which alternatives pages they read, which pricing tabs they hit, which competitor listings they spent time on.

S
Sarah Chen
🌐 San Francisco, CA
10:44 AM
Session on Spotsaas
2h 10s
Source
Google
HR Software — Alternatives
Compared 6 vendors · 7m 23s
10:44 AM
BambooHR vs Workday
Comparison page · 4m 12s
10:37 AM
HR Software — Pricing
Clicked "Request Demo" · 2m 15s
10:41 AM
Identify

Know who's evaluating before anyone else does

See the full research trail — which pages they visited on Spotsaas, which competitors they compared, how long they spent, and which person led the evaluation.

S
Spotsaas
now
#hot-leads
🔥 Stripe just compared your category against 3 competitors on Spotsaas. 4 people from their team visited pricing today.
Signal

Get to the buyer 3 weeks before competitors know they exist

Slack alerts, CRM pushes, and sequence triggers fire the moment a target account heats up. Your team moves while everyone else is still waiting on inbound.

S
Sarah Chen
VP of Sales · Stripe
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏱ Last seen 12m ago
Engage

Reach buyers while they're still deciding

Verified contacts for every buying committee member — name, title, and work email — fed directly into your outreach sequences.

2,433
Companies evaluated your category this month
Measure

Know which signals convert — stop betting on gut feel

Category-level intent trends show which pages, which signals, and which account profiles actually turn into closed revenue — so you cut waste and double down on what works.

Get on the shortlist before it's written

90% of buyers have already shortlisted vendors before filling out a single form. Buyer Intent tells you exactly who's researching your category on Spotsaas right now — so you become the vendor they compare everyone else against.

  • See companies comparing your category on Spotsaas right now
  • Signals delivered in real-time — the moment a buyer researches your category, you know
  • No pixel. No form. No first-party footprint on your site required.
🔥 High intent — 430 in-market accounts
Company Last active Stage
Linear
Live Researching
Notion
5m ago Alternatives
Figma
14m ago Comparing
Anthropic
1h ago Read reviews
Rippling
3h ago Checked pricing
Buying committee

Know the company. Unlock the committee.

Spotsaas tells you which company is researching your category. From there, we help you find every decision-maker at that account — titles, seniority, and contact info — so you reach the right people before anyone else picks up the phone.

  • See which companies are actively researching your category
  • Unlock the buying committee at each account — titles, roles, and contact info
  • Reach decision-makers before they've shortlisted anyone
🏢 Stripe · researching HR software
Committee unlocked via enrichment
Person Role Signal
S
Sarah Chen
VP of Sales Researching
T
Tom Butler
Head of RevOps Alternatives
C
Chloe Livesey
Sales Manager Alternatives
M
Marcus Webb
CFO Researching
🔗 Synced to HubSpot 📢 #emea-sales alerted 🎉 Outreach started
Competitive signals

Walk in knowing their shortlist before they share it

Every page a buyer visits on Spotsaas is a signal: which alternatives they're serious about, which competitors they benchmarked against you, whether they hit pricing or stopped at the homepage. Enter every call already knowing what they've seen — and who they're comparing you to.

  • Know which competitors they've looked at before calling you
  • See whether they visited pricing, read reviews, or just browsed
  • When a buyer visits your competitor on Spotsaas, you see it too — reach them first
"Your neighbor's guest is also your prospect."
When a buyer visits your competitor on Spotsaas, Buyer Intent surfaces them to you at the same moment.
📊 HR Software category · Last 30 days
Alternatives pages
Comparing to competitors
2,840
Pricing comparisons
Evaluating cost
1,923
Feature comparisons
Building requirements list
1,540
Review deep-dives
Validating the decision
1,124
Workflow activation

Activate sales the moment intent spikes

Buyer Intent doesn't stop at signals. The moment a target account starts evaluating your category, it routes to the right rep, syncs to your CRM and ad platforms, and fires a Slack alert — in under 5 minutes. Your team moves while competitors are still guessing.

  • Push in-market accounts to HubSpot or Salesforce automatically
  • Sync in-market audiences to LinkedIn, Meta & Google Ads for targeted campaigns
  • Slack alerts to AEs in under 5 minutes when a target account goes live
  • Export buying committee contacts directly to outreach sequences
Integrates with
New in-market account detected
Attio (200–500 employees) started evaluating your category — 4 Spotsaas pages visited, 18 minutes of research. Not in your CRM.
Now
Pushed to HubSpot as new deal
Attio added to pipeline stage "Intent — Not Contacted" with full research context and category activity.
1m ago
Slack alert fired → #pipeline-new
@sara — Vercel is actively researching your category. 6 pages visited across pricing, features, and alternatives. Not in any list.
3m ago
Account routed to outreach sequence
Rippling added to "Net-New Outbound Q3" sequence — high research intensity, 5 category pages visited.
11m ago
How to use it

How to put buyer intent to work

Six ways sales and marketing teams turn category research into pipeline — from the first real-time signal to the closed deal.

01 · PRIORITIZATION · REAL-TIME

Tell your reps which accounts to work right now

"Who do we call first — and when?"

Buyer intent shows your team which companies are in-market today. Signals land in under 5 minutes — so the moment an account starts evaluating, it's prioritized and routed to the right rep, who acts while the buyer is still researching, not a week too late.

02 · ADS INTELLIGENCE

Target in-market accounts on LinkedIn, Meta & Google

"Where is my ad budget actually working?"

Push your in-market account list straight into LinkedIn, Meta, and Google Ads as matched audiences. Stop spraying budget at cold lists — run highly targeted campaigns and retargeting against the exact companies comparing vendors in your category right now.

03 · MARKETING WORKFLOWS

Reach in-market accounts in time — and grow pipeline

"How do I get to them before the window closes?"

Trigger ABM plays, nurture, and campaigns the moment an account heats up. Marketing reaches buyers while they're still deciding and hands sales a steady flow of accounts already in-market — so pipeline goes up, not just activity.

04 · MARKET INTELLIGENCE

See where demand is really moving

"What's happening in my category right now?"

Track which companies are in-market, which competitors own share of attention, and where category demand is spiking — so your GTM bets follow real demand, not last quarter's guess.

05 · PERSONALIZATION

Open with what they actually researched

"How do I make this message land?"

You know the pages they read and the competitors they weighed. Open every email and call with their real evaluation context — not a generic pitch they've heard ten times this week.

06 · MEASUREMENT

Know which signals turn into revenue

"Is any of this actually working?"

See which pages, signals and account profiles convert to pipeline and closed deals — so you cut the waste and double down on the intent that actually pays.

How we compare

Spotsaas vs Bombora vs G2 Buyer Intent

All three surface intent. Only one ties every signal to a named company, a real person, and the exact page they read.

  Spotsaas Bombora G2 Buyer Intent
Where the signal comes fromReal sessions on Spotsaas, in your categoryCo-op of thousands of publishersActivity on G2 listings
Signal granularityThe exact page & sessionTopic surge scoreCategory / product views
Signal speed (research → alert)Under 5 minutesWeekly refreshDaily
See the named companyYesYesYes
Person / buying committeeYes — named contactsAccount-level onlyLimited
See exact competitors comparedYesNoOn G2 only
Transparent single sourceYesAggregated co-opYes
First signals live in24 hoursWeeks to onboardDays
Built for one category at a timeYes — your exact categoryBroad topic clustersG2 categories

Comparison reflects Spotsaas's read of publicly described capabilities as of 2026. Bombora and G2 are trademarks of their respective owners.

We were burning 30% of our outbound on companies that weren't actually in-market. Spotsaas Buyer Intent changed that in the first week. We now focus exclusively on accounts actively comparing vendors in our category — our connect rate went up immediately.

Vik Chadha
Vik Chadha
Founder, Hivedesk & Glowtouch Technologies
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FAQ

Questions we get asked every demo

Buyer intent data is behavioral signal that reveals which companies are actively researching a product or category — before they contact a vendor. When people at a company read comparison pages, check pricing, or compare alternatives for a type of software, that activity is captured as an intent signal. Enough signal from one company indicates they're "in-market" and evaluating a purchase right now, letting you reach them while they're still deciding.
First-party intent is behavior on your own properties — website visits, CRM activity, form fills — but it only shows buyers who already found you, the last ~20% of the journey. Third-party intent captures research happening across the wider web, surfacing in-market accounts before they raise their hand. Most aggregators (like Bombora) deliver third-party signal as an account-level topic score. Spotsaas is third-party signal with first-party clarity: every signal is a real session on Spotsaas tied to a named company, the buying-committee person, and the exact pages they read.
There are four core plays: (1) Market intelligence — see where category demand is moving and who owns share of attention; (2) Prioritization — focus outbound only on accounts actively comparing vendors, and reach them while the shortlist is still forming; (3) Personalization — open every email and call with the exact pages and competitors they researched; (4) Measurement — track which signals and account profiles convert to pipeline, so you cut waste. Spotsaas pushes signals into HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack and your outreach sequences so each play runs automatically.
Accuracy depends entirely on the source. Aggregated topic scores can be noisy because you can't see what was actually read or trust every site in the supply chain. Spotsaas signals are first-hand: each one is a real, measured session on our own platform — the specific comparison, pricing or alternatives page a company viewed, how long they spent, and who was active. There's no inferred topic model in between, so you can verify exactly why an account is flagged as in-market.
Bombora aggregates signals from thousands of B2B publishers — the data is broad but diffuse, and you often can't see exactly what a company was reading. G2 intent is limited to companies researching on G2. Spotsaas Buyer Intent is sourced exclusively from 2M+ annual visitors on our own platform — which means every signal is tied to a specific page visit, comparison, or pricing review in your exact software category. You see the session, the person, and the pages. Not a score.
Spotsaas is a software discovery and comparison platform with 24,578 product listings across 419 categories. When a company's employees visit Spotsaas to compare vendors, review pricing, or read alternatives pages, those sessions generate intent signals. We de-anonymise the company behind the session and surface it to you — along with the specific pages they visited, how long they spent, and who from the company was active.
Most customers see their first in-market accounts within 24 hours of activation. We pull historical data going back 30 days so you're not starting with an empty dashboard. For popular software categories (CRM, HR, Marketing, Finance), you'll typically see hundreds of in-market accounts in the first week.
Spotsaas covers 419 software categories ranging from CRM and HR software to field service management, legal tech, and digital banking. Categories like CRM, HRIS, and marketing automation see thousands of monthly visitors. Niche categories see fewer — but the signals are more precise. We'll show you the volume in your category before you commit. Book a demo and we'll run a live category audit for you.
We integrate natively with HubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo.io, Slack, and LinkedIn. We also support outbound webhooks so you can push signals to any tool in your stack — including custom sequences, Outreach, Salesloft, or internal dashboards. API access is included on the Annual plan.
Yes — start with a free category preview. Enter your category above or book a demo, and we'll show you live signals from your software category in real time, including which companies are currently in-market and the pages they've been researching. No credit card required.
Yes. Spotsaas Buyer Intent surfaces company-level intent data and identifies buying committee contacts through commercially available data sources. All data handling is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and applicable B2B data regulations. We do not track individuals without consent and we honour all data removal requests. Contact [email protected] for a data processing agreement.

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Someone is comparing you to a competitor on Spotsaas right now.

They haven't filled out your form. They won't — unless you reach them first. Buyer Intent shows you which company it is and what they've been researching.

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