Sales battlecard template
A battlecard is the one page a sales rep opens five minutes before a call against a specific competitor. This template keeps it to one page, puts the honest sections next to the persuasive ones, and marks the sections that need fresh evidence every week, which is where most battlecards quietly go wrong.
8 sections · 15 fields · free, no sign-up
1. Quick read
Who they are
OnceOne line, the way a prospect would describe them.
Where to find it: Their homepage, your call notes.
When we meet them
QuarterlyThe deal types and segments where they show up.
Where to find it: Your CRM: deals where they were named.
Our position against them
QuarterlyOne sentence: why us, against them specifically.
Where to find it: Your product marketing.
2. Why we win
Win reasons
QuarterlyThree reasons, each with a proof point the prospect can check: a demo moment, a public doc, a customer story.
Where to find it: Won deals and customer interviews.
3. Where they win
Where they are genuinely better
QuarterlySay it plainly. A rep who denies a real strength loses the room.
Where to find it: Lost deals and their own product pages.
How to handle it
QuarterlyReframe what matters for this buyer, or qualify the deal out.
Where to find it: Your best reps.
4. Questions to ask
Discovery questions
QuarterlyNeutral questions whose honest answer favors you. Never a trick question; prospects notice.
Where to find it: Won deals: what did the buyer care about that they could not get elsewhere?
5. Objections
Objection and response
QuarterlyThe three objections reps hear most when this competitor is in the deal, each with a short answer and a proof point.
Where to find it: Call recordings and rep feedback.
6. Pricing
Their pricing
Monthly · trackablePublished prices or a contact-sales form, and how they bill.
Where to find it: Their pricing page.
How to talk about price
QuarterlyTotal cost for this buyer, not list price against list price.
Where to find it: Your pricing and finance team.
7. Recent moves
Launches and feature updates
Weekly · trackableWhat they shipped in the last 30 days, with dates.
Where to find it: Their changelog and product blog.
Integrations and partnerships
Weekly · trackableNew integrations and partners, with dates.
Where to find it: Changelog, partner pages, press releases.
Pricing changes
Weekly · trackableAny plan, price or limit change, with the date.
Where to find it: Their pricing page over time.
8. Proof
Customers who switched
QuarterlyNames you are allowed to share and why they switched.
Where to find it: Customer success and won-deal notes.
Third-party proof
QuarterlyReviews, analyst notes or benchmarks you can cite with a link.
Where to find it: Review sites and analyst reports.
The label on each field is how often its answer changes. Fields marked trackable are dated public changes, so a monitoring tool can collect them for you. Spyingbee watches a competitor’s changelog, pricing page, blog, docs, news feed and product catalogue, checks each source on its own interval (every few hours for pages that keep changing, every few days for quiet ones), and classifies every change it finds. That covers the fields marked Weekly. The judgment fields stay yours: no crawler knows why you win.
- 47% of battlecards go stale within three months, 82% within six months, and only 2% last more than a year.
- 52% of shops with dedicated competitive intelligence teams report battlecards going stale within three months, against 33% at companies with no formal approach.
- Only one in three sales teams consistently uses the competitive content their product marketers produce. 37% freestyle or ignore it.
Wynter, “2026 State of Competitive Intelligence in B2B SaaS”, a survey of 101 product marketers at mid-market and enterprise companies, as reported by MarTech on August 13, 2026.
The Recent moves section, filled for a card against Vercel from the last 30 days
Launches and feature updates
Integrations and partnerships
Pricing changes
Each row is a change Spyingbee detected on a page it tracks for Vercel, classified automatically and linked to where it was published. Everything we tracked for Vercel. Fields of the sales battlecard template that tracked changes cannot fill stay blank here.
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One card per competitor
Write a separate card for each competitor you meet in deals. A combined card answers no specific question.
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Start from lost deals
The Where they win section comes from deals you lost. Write it before Why we win, so the card stays honest.
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Keep it to one page
If a rep cannot read it in five minutes before a call, it will not be read. Link out to depth instead of pasting it in.
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Date the recent moves
Every line in Recent moves and Pricing carries a date. Undated competitive claims are how reps get caught out on a call.
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Refresh on a schedule
Review Recent moves weekly and the rest quarterly. Put the last-updated date at the top of the card.
What is a sales battlecard?
A one-page reference for selling against a specific competitor: who they are, why you win, where they win, questions to ask, objection handling, pricing context, their recent moves, and proof. Reps use it right before and during a competitive call.
What makes a battlecard actually get used?
It is short, it is current, and it is honest about where the competitor is stronger. Reps stop trusting a card the first time a prospect corrects it, so the sections that change fastest (recent moves and pricing) matter most.
How often should battlecards be updated?
Recent moves and pricing weekly, everything else quarterly, plus an immediate update after any major competitor launch or pricing change. Put a last-updated date on the card so reps can see how old it is.
Can Spyingbee build battlecards for me?
Yes, on Pro. Spyingbee generates a battlecard from the signals it has collected about a competitor, with a source on each claim, and Pro includes 10 generations a month. Cards do not rewrite themselves: when new signals arrive you regenerate the card, which takes one click. The free plan tracks 3 competitors and includes the weekly brief, but no battlecard generations.
Is this template free?
Yes. Copy it as Markdown or download it as a CSV that opens in Excel or Google Sheets. There is no sign-up to use it.
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Keep the fast-moving fields current automatically
Spyingbee watches a competitor’s changelog, pricing page, blog, docs, news feed and product catalogue, checks each source on its own interval (every few hours for pages that keep changing, every few days for quiet ones), and classifies every change it finds. That covers the fields marked Weekly. The judgment fields stay yours: no crawler knows why you win.