Market Intelligence
To build the right product you first need to understand the market's accumulated wisdom — what users have repeatedly complained about, what competitors have tried and abandoned, and which patterns keep recurring across the category. This unit maps the inventory planning landscape so you can find Tightly's lane.
Joseki are established corner sequences in Go — both players follow a pattern that's been proven optimal through thousands of games. In PM work, joseki is understanding the established wisdom of a market: what users have repeatedly complained about, what competitors have tried and abandoned, and which patterns keep recurring across the category.
G2, Capterra, and Reddit reviews are a free, unfiltered readout of what the inventory planning market gets right and gets badly wrong. Here's what the data says.
Understanding where competitors are going matters more than where they are today. Every major player is moving — and the direction they're moving reveals the market segment they're vacating.
Synthesizing user review patterns and competitor trajectories into specific product opportunities — and a framework for validating and prioritizing them.