Our client, an AI-driven omnichannel help desk platform offering both cloud and on-premise (private cloud) deployments – trusted by enterprises, government agencies and regulated industries – needed a precision-built dataset that went beyond standard competitive intelligence.
The help desk and customer support software market is one of the most saturated in B2B SaaS. Dozens of platforms compete for the same buyers, and the switching dynamics vary dramatically depending on whether a prospect is on a cloud-hosted solution or running an on-premise deployment behind their own firewall. A company selling both deployment models doesn’t have one ICP – it has two, each with different buyer personas, different pain points and different competitive exposure.
What made this engagement unique was that the client didn’t just want a competitor customer list. They wanted a dataset reverse-engineered from their own go-to-market architecture.
The path to the engagement reflected the complexity of the ask. Our cold email reached the CEO, who forwarded it to the Head of Demand Generation. When she subsequently left the company, the brief was handed to the VP of Marketing – who picked it up and drove the engagement to completion. Three stakeholders, one thread, zero momentum lost.
We initially pitched three competitors. The client came back with something far more specific: rather than buying a generic competitor list, they wanted the data structured around their own ICP definitions – and then overlaid with competitive intelligence.
What the client defined:
The VP of Marketing provided two distinct ICP frameworks reflecting the company’s dual deployment model:
Each ICP came with its own set of target personas – the specific titles and functions most likely to evaluate and purchase help desk software within companies matching that profile.
Our scope: find the companies that are verified customers of a named competitor and match one of the two ICP definitions and include decision-makers aligned to the specified personas.
This was not a simple competitor scrape. It was a three-layer filter: competitor tech stack → ICP match → persona alignment.
Data fields delivered per record: Contact name · Job title · Verified business email · Phone numbers · Company name · Website · Physical address · State · Country · ZIP code · SIC code · Industry · Revenue size · Employee size
We delivered approximately 1,842 verified companies and around 5,276 decision-maker contacts, all focused on the competitor within the client’s displacement target set.
Every record passed through the client’s dual-ICP framework and persona criteria before inclusion. The result was not a broad competitor list – it was a surgical dataset where every company and every contact had been pre-qualified against the client’s own go-to-market logic.
The buyer deployed the dataset through their demand generation and ABM programs, running differentiated campaigns for private/on-premise prospects versus cloud prospects – each with messaging tailored to the deployment model and pain points most relevant to that segment. In a market where generic “switch to us” messaging gets ignored, the ICP-mapped structure of the data allowed the team to personalize at a level most competitors in the help desk space never reach.
Campaign performance
From the 1,842 verified companies and 5,276 decision-maker contacts delivered, the buyer’s campaigns generated:
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