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Every competitor’s trial, from sign-up to cancel, dated.

The onboarding emails, trial limits, upgrade prompts, signed-in prices and offers to stay, at your app and every competitor you name. Each with the email or the screenshot, and the day it appeared.

Onboarding a limited number of teams. Name up to 5 companies to look up first.

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  • Larkfield, a team calendar app
  • 5 competitors
  • 14 day trials

  1. What you name

    Your trial and 5 competitors

    • Your sign-up page
    • Each competitor’s free trial
    • The customer profiles to sign up as

    Web, iOS or Android

  2. What comes back

    Every fact, dated

    • Onboarding emails and texts
    • Trial limits and upgrade prompts
    • Signed-in prices and offers
    • The offer to stay at cancel

    Each with its screenshot

  3. Where it lands

    Where your team works

    • Search: one app
    • Insights: a question across many
    • A webhook, Clay or the API

    Nothing to install

Name the apps and who signs up. The trials stay open.

Larkfield, a team calendar app, follows its own 14 day trial and 5 competitors’.

Set it up

Which apps, as which users, and what a good trial looks like.

  • Your app and any competitor
  • Trial user · US
  • Team admin · 20 seats
  • Pays only on a card you fund

  1. Name the apps

    Your own sign-up and each competitor’s, on the web or in the app.

    ExampleLarkfield names its own sign-up and 5 competitors: Quillon, Velloway, Hollin, Wrenfield and Fieldmark.

  2. Pick who signs up

    The customer profiles and country to sign up as. A team admin and a solo user see different limits and offers.

    ExampleA trial user in the US, a new visitor in the UK and a team admin with 20 seats.

  3. Say what your own trial should send

    The emails you expect, and when. Anything late, missing or broken is a finding.

    ExampleA welcome within 10 minutes, onboarding on days 1, 3 and 7, and a reminder 3 days before the end.

Obsession runs the trials

Each account stays open to the end of the trial and after it.

  • Its own inbox
  • Its own phone number
  • Its own browser
  • Says it’s AI

  1. Every email, link and prompt

    Each account confirms its email, follows the onboarding, opens every link and comes back on the days you set.

    ExampleTue 09:02: signed up at Larkfield. 09:03: the welcome email. 09:04: its Open the app button leads to staging.larkfield.example, a closed site.

  2. Limits, prompts and prices

    Where the free plan stops, when the upgrade prompt appears, and the price a signed-in user sees.

    ExampleQuillon: 3 projects and 1 seat free, an upgrade prompt on day 7, and Pro at $24 signed in, $29 on the public page.

  3. Offers to stay

    The discount before the trial ends and the offer when someone cancels, including the ones never on the pricing page.

    ExampleDay 12 at Quillon: 40% off the first year, for trial users only. At cancel: 50% off for 3 months.

Your trial emails go to new users. Nobody on your team is one.

The welcome email was tested once, the day it went live. Since then a domain moved, a plan was renamed and a tool was swapped. Competitors’ trials change the same way, out of sight.

  • Dead links

    A button in the welcome email that opens a staging site, a login wall or a page that moved.

  • Emails that never come

    The day 3 tip or the trial ending reminder that stopped after a tool change.

  • Limits that move

    A free plan cut from 5 projects to 3, or an upgrade prompt moved to day 5.

  • Competitors’ private offers

    The discount or extra week a competitor sends only to its trial users.

Each finding comes back with the email as it arrived, the page it led to and the time of both.

What product and growth teams do with it.

  • Fix a break the day it starts

    Not the month churn moves.

    ExampleThe dead welcome links reached #growth through a webhook at 09:05 on Tuesday, and were fixed by 11:00.

  • Check a release didn’t break onboarding

    Sign up again after every release.

    ExampleAfter the switch to a new email tool, the day 3 email stopped. It was back the next morning.

  • Match a competitor’s offer, or don’t

    Ask Insights what competitors send their trial users.

    Example3 of 5 project management apps email a discount before the trial ends. None show it on their pricing page.

  • Benchmark your onboarding

    How many emails, how soon and what each asks for, against 5 competitors.

    ExampleLarkfield sends 4 emails in 14 days. Its competitors send 6 to 11.

Guides for this job

Step-by-step guides behind this use case, each with what a pass looks like.

What software teams ask.

Obsession records what software companies show only to signed-up users: onboarding emails, trial limits, upgrade prompts, signed-in prices and cancel offers. Each fact is dated, with the email or a screenshot, for your own product and your competitors. Look up one app, or ask a question across many.

From real accounts. Obsession’s agents sign up, start trials and cancel the way any user can, from the customer profiles and countries you choose, and keep each account open for months. Every email is kept as it arrived, with its sender checked.

Only if you let them. Each one signs up from an address you can recognise, so you can leave them out of your sign-ups, trials and churn.

Obsession does only what any user can, through the sign-up anyone can use. It says it’s an AI when it talks to a person, and it never signs in to an account that isn’t its own. Our guide sets out the law in the US, the UK and the EU; it isn’t legal advice.

Is it legal to sign up to a competitor?

Yes. It signs up on the web or in your iOS or Android app, and keeps every email and text that comes after.

Only if you choose. A paid trial runs on a card you fund, never on fake payment details.

Which apps should we look up first?

Early access includes API and MCP access, lookups of every company already covered, and up to 5 companies added for you, set up with the founders.

Onboarding a limited number of teams. Name up to 5 companies to look up first.

We keep what you tell us to set up your access and email you about Obsession. Privacy notice