12 free tools

Free tools for demand and competitor intelligence

12 free tools for the three jobs that decide whether buyers find you: getting recommended by AI assistants, finding people who are actively asking to buy, and knowing what your competitors are doing. No account, no credit card, no trial. Most run entirely in your browser.

Why these tools are free

Every tool here does, by hand, one job that Linkeddit automates. You can generate a set of competitor complaint searches in a minute and get real switching-intent threads without paying anyone. You can build a battlecard, model the ROI of a competitive intelligence program, or ship a valid llms.txt file today.

What the free versions cannot do is run without you. They do not remember what you found last week, dedupe repeat signals, grade which competitor move actually matters, or put a brief in your inbox every Monday.

That gap is the product. Compete delivers a graded weekly brief on every competitor you track. Demand Intelligence runs intent searches continuously and scores each result. Answer Radar measures your share of AI recommendations over time.

So the tools on this page are not crippled samples with a paywall halfway through. They are the honest manual version, and they stay free.

FAQ

Free tools, answered directly

The questions people actually ask before using a free tool from a paid product.

Are these tools really free?

Yes. Every tool on this page is free to use with no account, no credit card, and no trial period. Most of them run entirely in your browser, which means there is nothing for us to meter. The three that fetch live data are rate limited only to keep them available for everyone, not to push you toward a paid plan.

Do I need to create an account?

No. Every tool on this page works without an account, a credit card, or a trial. The three that fetch live data are rate limited per visitor so they stay available, and the AI Visibility Checker has the tightest limit because each check costs real money to run against a model. Nothing on this page asks you to sign up to see a result.

What is the catch?

These tools do the manual version of jobs Linkeddit automates. Generating a set of competitor complaint searches takes a minute; running those searches every week, deduping the results, and grading which ones signal a switchable account is what the paid product does. The free tools are genuinely complete for one-off use.

Which free tool should I start with?

If you sell software and want to know why buyers are not finding you, start with the AI Visibility Checker and the llms.txt Generator. If you want pipeline this week, start with the Buyer Intent Query Builder or the Competitor Complaint Finder. If you are preparing a sales team, start with the Battlecard Generator.

Do the tools that fetch live data use real sources?

Yes. The Subreddit Finder and Best Time to Post tool read Reddit's public data directly, and the AI Visibility Checker queries a real answer engine and quotes the response it received. Nothing on this page returns invented metrics, estimated volumes, or fabricated answers.

Can I use these tools for client work?

Yes. Agencies and consultants use them for pitch prep, competitive audits, and onboarding research. There is no license restriction on the output. If you are running the same audit across many clients every month, the paid product will be faster than repeating the manual loop.