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SpotsaasBuyer Intent
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Demandbase

Some buyers make their list before they ever visit your site. See it happen.

Your pipeline only contains buyers who found you. Every week, companies in your category run head-to-heads and read alternatives lists — and the ones you’re absent from never become deals, never become losses, and never show up anywhere. Demandbase tells you who’s in-market. We tell you which rooms you’re not in.

  • Who ran a head-to-head against you — and which competitor they opened next
  • Who’s reading alternatives to a product like yours — the comparisons you never appear in
  • Every page, in order, with the score — and the function that produced it, published further down

See your in-market accounts — free

Tell us your category. We’ll show you which companies are researching it on Spotsaas right now.

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Revenue teams already reading their category
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How much of the story you get

Every vendor here tracks accounts.The difference is how much they tell you.Most stop at “this company is interested.” We go all the way to what it read, and when.

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A topic is warming somewhere

Somebody, somewhere, is reading about your category. No company attached.

Topic
2

A named account is warming

You know it’s Acme, and you know the number went up. You don’t know what Acme did.

Where Demandbase stops
3

Which topics it warmed on

Closer. Still a bag of topics with no order, no sequence, and no competitor named.

Topic + account
4

The account, and every page it read — in order

The head-to-head it ran, which product it opened next, the alternatives list you weren’t on, and the score, with the function attached.

Spotsaas

Three signals, with the sequence attached

Demandbase sees comparisons too — that isn’t the difference. The difference is what reaches you: a band, or the order it happened in, with the maths attached.

Signal 01Example

Who ran a head-to-head against you

And which competitor they opened next. It happens on our pages, so we watch it happen.

DemandbaseVS6sense
Then opened a third vendor’s pricing
You weren’t in this comparison
Signal 02Example

Who’s reading alternatives to a product like yours

The lists buyers read when they’re switching — and whether your name is on them.

“Alternatives to Demandbase
1Vendor A2Vendor B3Vendor CYou. Not on the list.
A decision you never entered
Signal 03Example

Every page, in order

The whole trail, sequenced. The score and the function behind it are further down — both published.

Day 1Browsed a category
Day 3Ran a head-to-head
Day 5Read reviews
Day 6Viewed product pricing
Four days. One week. In order.

Keep Demandbase. Add the signal it was never built to catch.

At $10k–$30k/yr we are not a rip-and-replace for a platform you already pay for, and we’d be lying if we pitched it that way. Here’s the seam.

Demandbase logoKeep Demandbase for

Bidstream across the open web, its own DSP for activation, and account identification at a scale nobody here matches. Keep it. That is the top of your funnel and we don't replace any of it.

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The part bidstream physically cannot reach: what happened inside your category on a site that never served an ad. The head-to-head comparison, the alternatives list, the pricing view — in order, scored by a function you can read.

Demandbase tells you a topic is warming across the web. We tell you what happened in your category last Tuesday. Those are different questions, and you want both answered.

We were burning 30% of our outbound on companies that weren't actually in-market. Spotsaas Buyer Intent changed that in the first week. Our connect rate went up immediately.

Vik ChadhaVik ChadhaFounder, Hivedesk & Glowtouch Technologies

Six questions. We answer all six.

Six questions. Every answer links to where it came from — their documentation, or Vendr’s real contract data. Nothing here is sourced to a comparison blog, including ours.

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Where the data comes from

Spotsaas
First-party

One property, watched end to end — 2 million buyers research software on Spotsaas every year, across 419 categories.

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Blend

first-party via its own tag; proprietary bidstream via its own B2B DSP (“70B+ Page Views a Day”, “2.1T+ Intent Signals a Month”, 3.7B+ IPs classified); plus imported Bombora Surge, G2 and TrustRadius intent.

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What you can see

Spotsaas
The named account and every page it read, in order

the head-to-head comparisons, the alternatives lists, the pricing views. 317,000+ comparisons have run on Spotsaas.

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Account-level for intent

Person-level only for visitors to your own site, via its tag.

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Is the scoring published?

Spotsaas
Published in full

Every weight, the decay curve, the thresholds — printed on this page. Recompute any score by hand.

Demandbase logoDemandbase
Not published

The product page says only that it uses “a combination of AI and natural language processing” to “decipher context and minimize irrelevant activity” — that describes filtering the signal, not scoring it. No weights, no function.

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Pixel on your site?

Spotsaas
No installation required on your end

The research happens on our property, and we share the data with you in real time.

Demandbase logoDemandbase
Yes

“a small block of JavaScript that you place on each page of your website.” Tags idle 6+ weeks get disabled.

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Contract

Spotsaas
Annual, and we won't lock you into multi-year to earn a discount.
Demandbase logoDemandbase
Annual, custom-quoted (platform fee plus per-user).

Where the data comes from

Every intent vendor says “our data.” Here’s whose it really is.

Spotsaas
One source. Ours.

Buyers comparing software on Spotsaas

Opening your profile. Running a head-to-head against your competitor. Reading the alternatives list. It happens on our property, so we watch it happen. Ours end to end: our data, our source, our published method.

Spotsaas Buyer Intent
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Its own B2B DSP — bidstreamBidstream
Imported third-party intentLicensed
Demandbase Tag on your siteTheirs
Demandbase

The bidstream layer really is Demandbase's own, via its own DSP — and it only ever sees pages that served an ad.

Every intent vendor scores accounts. We’re the only one that shows you the function.

Here is the entire model. The weight on each kind of research, how it fades with time, and the line where warm becomes hot. Decide for yourself whether a pricing view is worth10 times a category browse.

What each action is worth

Ran a head-to-head comparison
30
Watched a product video
20
Viewed product pricing
20
Read reviews
15
Viewed a product listing
5
Browsed a category
2

How it fades

≤ 7 days×1.0
≤ 14 days×0.8
≤ 21 days×0.6
≤ 30 days×0.4
Older×0.2
35Warm
70Hot
100Cap
One week at Acme CorporationExample

Healthcare · 5,000+ employees · US. Four moves in seven days, every one of them about your category. You saw none of it.

Day 1Browsed your category
Day 3Ran a head-to-head — you weren't in it
Day 5Read an alternatives list — you weren't on it
Day 6Opened your competitor's pricing
Four moves in seven days, all of them in your category. Demandbase reports this week as one number. You get the week.

What each of us is for

We’d rather you heard this from us than found it out after signing. If the left-hand column is what you need, buy Demandbase — we’ll tell you that on the call too.

Where we pick up

The comparison you lost

The head-to-head comparison where a buyer weighed you against a competitor — which one they opened, and which one they opened next.

The lists you're missing from

Every alternatives list a buyer reads in your category, and whether your name is on it. Being absent is a decision someone made without you.

The order, not a number

Browsed, compared, read, priced — sequenced and timestamped. A score says an account is warm. The sequence says what to open with.

A score you can check by hand

Every weight, the decay curve, the thresholds — published on this page. You never take our word for a number.

Demandbase is strongest at

The biggest footprint here, by a distance

Owning a B2B DSP gives Demandbase first-hand bidstream access nobody else here has natively — “70B+ Page Views a Day”. Spotsaas goes deep on one property — the category where your buyers compare.

Serious IP classification

“We classify over 3.7 billion IPs” and “3.1B active cookies & EIDs”. Resolving IPs to organisations at that scale is hard engineering, and theirs is among the best.

Intent and activation in one system

Because the DSP is theirs, an intent signal becomes an ad audience without leaving the platform. We hand you a signal; you activate it elsewhere.

What we see, and what we don’t

Every vendor here has a scope. Most make you find it out on the call.

We see Spotsaas, and we see it completely

Every comparison, every alternatives list, every pricing view in your category — because it happens on our property. Research on other sites isn't ours to show you.

Corporate networks resolve; phones often don't

We identify the company behind a research session on a corporate network. Someone reading from home or on 5G frequently can't be resolved to their employer.

Quiet doesn't mean absent

An account we never saw may still be evaluating you elsewhere. Our signal tells you who was here — not who wasn't looking.

Accounts, not individuals

We tell you which company was evaluating you and exactly what it read. Nobody in this market hands you the named human who did the research — and anyone who says they do is worth a hard question.

It lands where you already work

A signal you have to log in to read isn’t a signal. Accounts arrive in your CRM, your reps’ queue and your ad audiences.

Into your CRM

Accounts land as records, not a dashboard you have to remember to open.

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Into your reps' day

The account surfaces where they already are, while it's still warm.

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Into your sequences

In-market accounts drop straight into the queue that's already running.

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Into your ad audiences

Spend on the accounts comparing you this week, not last quarter's list.

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The comparison that happened this morning is worth five times what it’ll be worth next month.

That isn’t a sales line — it’s the decay curve we publish above. A signal counts full for seven days and fades from there. The evaluations you miss this week don’t wait for you. They finish.

×1.0≤ 7 days
×0.8≤ 14 days
×0.6≤ 21 days
×0.4≤ 30 days
×0.2Older

What happens after you fill that in

No demo gate, no discovery call before you see anything. You get a real list first and decide afterwards.

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Tell us your category

One field. Work email, so we know which company to run it for.

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We run your category

We pull the accounts that researched it on Spotsaas — what they compared, what they read, in order.

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You get the accounts, free

A real list from your category, not a demo environment. Read it, check the scores, decide if the signal is worth anything to you.

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Then we talk, or we don't

If it's useful, $10k–$30k/yr and it runs alongside what you already have. If it isn't, you keep the list.

Compliant, and nothing to install

Most intent tools start with a tag on your site. This one doesn’t start with anything.

GDPR compliant

We resolve to accounts, not people. No buyer names, emails or phone numbers enter your systems from us.

CCPA compliant

Same architecture, same answer: organisation-level signals, no personal data changing hands.

Nothing to install

No tag, no pixel, no script on your site. There is no code for your security team to review.

The method is published

Every weight and threshold is on this page. Your team can audit a score without a call or an NDA.

Questions people ask

For coverage, yes. The trade is precision for breadth. Bidstream tells you a browser at an account loaded pages about a topic. Spotsaas tells you a named account ran a head-to-head comparison between two products in your category on Tuesday, then read the alternatives list you aren't on. Different instruments.

No — it's inferred. That's a design property, not a defect. It's excellent for wide topical awareness and structurally weak for late-stage evaluation, because the moments that matter most are often gated, paywalled or logged in, where bidstream can't reach.

No. The research happens on our property, so there is nothing to install, nothing to maintain, and nothing to expire. Demandbase's tag goes on every page of your site and gets disabled if it sits inactive for six weeks.

Yes, and for a big ABM programme that's the sane answer. Demandbase for breadth across the web, Spotsaas for depth in your category. We'd rather be your sharpest signal than your only one.

See the comparisons you’re missing from

Tell us your category. We’ll send the accounts researching it on Spotsaas — what they compared, what they read, in order. Free, no credit card, nothing to install.

  • Keep Demandbase. This sits alongside it.
  • $10k–$30k/yr, published — no quote-gating.
  • Every score checkable by hand.
Spotsaas Buyer Intent

See your in-market accounts — free

Which companies are researching your category on Spotsaas right now.

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