# Competitor Analysis for the Feature You Are Building

Source: https://maito.app/workflows/check-how-competitors-do-a-feature

Maito reads competitors' pricing pages and help docs and compares how each handles one feature, with the differences that matter for your plan.

See how other products handle the feature you're about to build.

[Product](https://maito.app/workflows/team/product) · [Software](https://maito.app/workflows/industry/software) · When you ask · Updated October 19, 2026

Works with

-   Slack
-   Email

## How do you check how competitors do a feature?

To check how competitors do a feature, tell Maito which feature and which products. It researches each company's pricing pages and help docs on the web, compares how they handle it, notes which plan includes it, and replies with a table and the details that differ. It names where it could not find a clear answer.

## How it's done today

PMs click through competitor apps for hours.

## What Maito does

1.  Read competitor docs and pages
2.  Compare flows, limits and pricing

## Example

**Leo** (10:50 AM):

How do competitors handle team permissions?

**Maito** (10:58 AM):

Five products, from their pricing pages and help docs today.

• **Globex Tasks:** 4 fixed roles, no custom roles  
• **Initech Flow:** 5 roles, custom roles on Business ($24/seat)  
• **Hooli Work:** 3 roles, custom roles on Enterprise only  
• **Pied Piper Projects:** 6 roles, custom roles on all paid plans  
• **Acme Boards:** 3 roles, no custom roles

**The catch:** only Initech sets roles per project. The other four set them per workspace, and Pied Piper's help center says per-project roles are on its roadmap. Also, Hooli changed its pricing page on Oct 6 but one help article still lists the old tiers, so check with a trial account before quoting it.

Custom roles sit behind the top tier in 2 of 5.

**Leo** (11:05 AM):

Do any of them let a guest see just one project?

**Maito** (11:09 AM):

Yes: Initech Flow and Pied Piper Projects. Globex Tasks has guests, but they see the whole workspace.

## How to set it up

When you ask Check how competitors do a feature

Set up

Nothing to set up. Ask in Slack or by email whenever you need it.

## What it won't do

It only sees public pages. Features hidden behind a login or added last week may not appear, and plans change.

## Questions

### Where does it get its information?

Public sources: pricing pages, help centers and product pages, read at the time you ask.

### Does it use competitor accounts?

No. It reads public pages only.

### How current is the comparison?

As current as the pages it reads that day, and each claim links to where it came from.

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