Free SAMPLE of a real competitor teardown (PhotoCal).

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You paste a company/product URL. You get: executive recommendation, 3 rivals, 5 ranked openings, next steps. Miss 48h = refund.

Tuesday 9:30am CT — $9 DIY or $49 full teardown (48h)

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Free SAMPLE PDF is pinned on the store. Positioning, pricing, landing-page gaps, and concrete moves to win more buyers.

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Free Cal.com + Linear samples are pinned on https://whop.com/48-hour-teardown so you can judge quality before you pay.

Still deciding between DIY and done-for-you?

• $9 DIY checklist — run the teardown yourself this week: https://whop.com/checkout/plan_KqcyopoAhxd5C

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Sample format lives on the store page. Pick a lane.

$9 DIY entry if you want the checklist only — no waiting on us:

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$79 done-for-you (48h): who they are · 3 named competitors · 5 openings

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Free Linear + Cal.com sample teardowns are pinned on the store so you can judge the format before you pay:

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Built for founders who just shipped and need a clear competitive map — not another vague SWOT.

Just launched buyers: if you shipped this week and need a crisp map of who you actually lose deals to, this is the format.

Free samples on this store (Linear + Cal.com): who they are → three named competitors → five openings.

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Paste a product URL. One page. Not a deck.

This is what the $49 brief looks like. Same structure you receive in 48 hours: who they are → three named competitors → five openings.

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Who they are

Linear sells a purpose-built product-development system: issues, projects, cycles, initiatives, customer requests, intake (Asks), and an agent platform (Linear Agent, MCP, coding sessions, Loops). Buyers are startup and AI-native eng/product teams, plus a fast-growing enterprise segment (OpenAI, Cursor, Ramp, Coinbase, and newer logos like Salesforce and Figma). Founded 2019 by Karri Saarinen and Tuomas Artman; Accel/Sequoia-backed; cashflow-positive with $100M+ ARR, 40,000+ paying companies, 177% NRR, and a $2.5B tender valuation (Aug 2026). Money is per-seat SaaS — Free ($0), Basic $10/user/month (annual), Business $16/user/month (annual), and custom Enterprise. Agent features are free on Free; Loops and coding sessions consume AI credits on paid plans.

Three competitors

Jira (Atlassian) — atlassian.com/software/jira. Same job at scale: issues, sprints, roadmaps, workflows, admin. Jira wins IT/enterprise orgs that need Marketplace apps, multi-project hierarchy, and Atlassian bundling (Confluence, JSM). Cloud Free covers 10 users; Standard starts around $7.91/user/month and Premium around $14.54/user/month on Atlassian’s published cloud rates. Linear wins the craft/speed buyer and the AI-native stack; it ships Jira sync + importer, but no public vs-Jira marketing page.

Plane — plane.so. Same job with an open-source / self-host wedge: work items, cycles, modules, pages/wiki, intake, AI credits. Plane wins price-sensitive and compliance-self-host buyers: Cloud Free (up to 12 users), Pro $6/seat/month (annual), Business $13/seat/month, plus self-hosted. It advertises a Linear importer and a “slash your bills >70% vs Jira+Confluence” calculator. Linear wins polish, agent depth, and brand among AI companies.

Shortcut — shortcut.com. Same job for software teams: stories, iterations, roadmaps, docs, GitHub/Slack. Shortcut wins on mid-tier seat math and a usable free tier: Free (10 users), Team $8.50/user/month (annual), Business $12/user/month with unlimited teams/workflows/OKRs; SAML/SCIM as Business add-on or included on Enterprise. Linear wins UX craft and agent workflows; Shortcut undercuts Linear Business by $4/seat/month.

Five openings

1. Guest / private-team cliff. Private teams, guest accounts, Insights, Asks, Triage Intelligence, and Zendesk/Intercom sit on Business at $16/user. Basic at $10 has no guests — so bringing six support agents in forces every eng seat from $10 → $16 first, then $16 × guests. Sell a Basic-priced guest or view-only SKU.

1. SSO / HIPAA is Enterprise-only. SAML, SCIM, IP restrictions, domain claiming, audit log, and HIPAA are custom Enterprise. Google SSO is available lower; real IdP SSO is a sales call. Shortcut puts SSO as a Business add-on; Plane puts SAML/OIDC on Enterprise but also sells self-host. Put SAML on a published Business add-on and bid “Linear SSO.”

1. Free dies at 250 issues. Free is unlimited members but 2 teams, 250 issues, and 10MB uploads. Plane Free allows up to 12 users with projects/cycles/pages; Shortcut Free allows 10 users with roadmaps and iterations. A seed team that actually ships hits Linear’s wall in weeks. Match Plane’s “real free for a squad” or raise the issue cap.

1. Seat tax vs Plane and Shortcut. At 20 seats, Linear Business is $320/mo ($16). Plane Business is $260; Plane Pro is $120; Shortcut Business is $240. Plane’s pricing page already attacks Jira on cost and ships a Linear importer. Publish a vs-Plane price table and a “migrate from Linear” path — or lose the cost-sensitive cohort this week.

1. Own the comparison SERPs. Linear has Jira sync docs and a terminology cheat sheet, but /vs/jira, /vs/plane, and /vs/shortcut resolve to empty SPA shells (title “Linear,” no comparison body). Plane and third-party blogs already rank “Linear alternative.” Ship /linear-vs-jira, /linear-vs-plane, and /linear-vs-shortcut with seat math and feature gates before they own the phrases.

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Read the free PhotoCal SAMPLE PDF attached.

Store: https://whop.com/48-hour-teardown

That sample is the exact $49 format: executive recommendation → three named competitors → five ranked openings. One page. Not a deck. Not a call.

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Want the method only?

→ $9 DIY (instant): https://whop.com/checkout/plan_KqcyopoAhxd5C

Buy the $9 DIY checklist now → https://whop.com/checkout/plan_KqcyopoAhxd5C

Instant access. No call. No wait. Same teardown method as the $49 brief — you do the work in an afternoon.

What you get

• Who they are (one paragraph template)

• Three named competitors (overlap rules)

• Five openings (each needs a screenshot-able proof)

• Ship rule: if you can’t name the rival + proof in one sentence, it’s not an opening

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(Miss 48 hours = full refund. One page, not a deck. Paste URL only.)

Free PhotoCal SAMPLE is pinned on this store so you can see the finished format before you choose.

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