Manage competitors and matching names

The Competitors page lets you manage the brands you track alongside yours. Add competitors manually, use AI suggestions, or fine-tune matching names for accurate detection.

Competitors management in LLM Pulse with tracked competitor brands, domains, matching names and chart colors

Each row shows a tracked competitor's brand name, its domain, the matching names used to detect it, and the chart color that keeps it consistent across every chart in the platform.

What it does

  • Lists all your tracked competitors with their brand name, domain, and matching names
  • Provides a Suggested tab with AI-detected competitors from your industry
  • Provides a Presets tab to save named groups of competitors and apply them in one click
  • Lets you edit matching names (the variations of a brand name AI might use)
  • Supports custom chart colors per competitor for visual consistency across charts
  • Sortable table with search functionality

How to use it

  1. Navigate to Competitors in the sidebar (under Preferences)
  2. Click Add Competitor to manually add a brand (enter name + domain)
  3. Switch to the Suggested tab to browse AI-suggested competitors
  4. Click a competitor to edit matching names, domain, or chart color
  5. Use the Delete action to remove a competitor (historical data will be lost)

Competitor presets

If you track rivals from different product lines or markets, comparing against the full list can dilute your Share of Voice with brands that don't actually compete with you. Presets solve this: save a named group of competitors once and apply it in one click.

  1. Go to Competitors > Presets and click Add Preset
  2. Name the preset (for example a product line or market) and tick the competitors that belong to it
  3. On any page with a competitors filter (Overview, AI Model Comparison, Reputation, Owned Media), open the filter and pick the preset from the left column

The competitors filter also supports batch selection: tick or untick several competitors and press Apply to reload the page once with the new selection. The Apply button only appears after you change the selection. For a per-product-line view, combine a preset with a tag filter so both the prompts and the competitors match that product line.

Deleting a preset never deletes the competitors in it, and a preset ignores competitors that have since been removed.

Tips & notes

  • Competitor limits depend on your plan (Starter: 10, Growth: 15, Scale: 20)
  • Matching names use word-boundary matching: "Apple" matches "Apple Watch" but not "Pineapple"
  • Adding new competitors triggers reprocessing of historical data, this can take some time
  • The Suggested tab uses AI to detect competitors based on your industry and the domains that appear in your citation data

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