Private, vendor-neutral labs

How well do you know your competitor's product?

OpenRival provides private, vendor-neutral labs where software teams get hands-on access to rival products in a secure, discreet environment.

Software product teardowns since 2016
How it works

From a product name to hands on the keyboard.

Five steps to access-driven insights.

  1. 01

    Start the conversation

    Tell us which products you are targeting. A name or a link to the product page for each is all we need to get started.

  2. 02

    Product research

    We handle vendor outreach, price negotiation, quote review, terms, and contracting.

  3. 03

    Procurement

    The software is acquired and licensed.

  4. 04

    Lab build

    A private cloud environment, provisioned once the license keys are in hand. One product per lab.

  5. 05

    The keys

    Credentials and a lab orientation. From there the lab is yours, month to month, for as long as the work takes.

Lab activities

Your team, or ours.

All OpenRival engagements begin with access to a private lab environment where your team can independently test rival products. The activities below are optional technical work performed by OpenRival engineers within the lab to generate documented, evidence-based findings.

About

About OpenRival.

Since 2016, OpenRival has provided product teams with under-the-hood technical competitive intelligence on rival software through private, secure labs. Our clients include some of the most well-known brands in the technology industry.

10 YearsProviding software teardown services
150+Private lab environments built and operated
50+SaaS and enterprise software clients served
Questions

The things everyone asks first.

What is a software product teardown?

A software product teardown is a hands-on technical examination of a competitor's product: what it actually does, how it behaves under real conditions, and where its capabilities diverge from its marketing. Unlike review mining or feature-page comparison, a teardown requires the product itself, running, in an environment where it can be tested directly.

Can you get access to any product?

Usually. Some products are harder than others. Tell us what you are targeting and we will tell you what it takes.

Why is this hard to do in-house?

Enterprise software rarely has a meaningful trial. Where one exists, the feature set is cut down, evaluation terms are restrictive, and signup is screened. Vendors qualify their buyers carefully. Most teams discover this only after spending weeks on it.

Can an AI agent do this for me?

AI can do a great deal of the analysis, and it is improving quickly. It can structure the evaluation, mine public sources, compare pricing pages, and draft the findings.

What it cannot do is put the product in front of you. Every teardown framework, AI-assisted or not, starts from the assumption that you already have access. That assumption is what we resolve.

Who runs the teardown, my team or yours?

Either. Every engagement begins with lab access, and many clients want their own people on the keyboard. Others prefer our engineers to run the work and deliver documented findings. Both are common.

Where do the labs run?

In private, isolated cloud environments. One product per lab, always. Separate labs let you run each product on its own timeline and ensure no vendor's software shares an environment with another's.

How long does it take?

Procurement is the variable. Enterprise vendors move at their own pace, and a single product typically runs several weeks. Labs are provisioned once license keys are in hand.

What does it cost?

Engagements are scoped per product. We will walk you through the structure on the first call.

Request a Lab

Tell us the product.

A name or a link to the product page is all we need to start.

Prefer email? insights@openrival.com