Client Snapshot

  • Industry: Full-Stack Observability / Cloud Monitoring
  • Stakeholder: Growth Marketing Manager
  • Engagement type: Competitive intelligence for account-based marketing
  • Relationship status: Completed – 1 engagement, ICP-refined dataset

The Challenge

Our client, a modern full-stack observability platform trusted by over 4,000 customers worldwide for real-time monitoring of logs, metrics, traces, and security events – with clients including IBM Cloud and enterprises across financial services, healthcare, and e-commerce – needed competitive intelligence to fuel displacement campaigns in one of the most fiercely contested markets in cloud infrastructure.

The observability space is crowded with well-funded incumbents, and switching costs are significant. Engineering teams build alerting pipelines, custom dashboards, and incident workflows around their existing platform. Displacing an incumbent doesn’t happen through brand awareness alone – it requires reaching the specific DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering leaders who own the observability budget at companies already paying for a competing solution.

What made this engagement distinctive was the buyer’s precision from the outset. When we reached out with a competitor pitch, the Growth Marketing Manager redirected us immediately – he wasn’t interested in the competitor we’d led with. He had a specific competitor in mind and asked for a sample file covering that platform’s customer base instead.

This told us the buyer had a clear displacement thesis. He knew exactly which competitor’s customers were most likely to switch.

The Solution

We delivered the sample file covering the competitor the buyer specified. The data quality checked out – but the buyer didn’t stop there. Before committing to a purchase, he had specific questions about how the data was sourced, what validation processes we used and how we ensured accuracy at scale.

Why this mattered:

In the observability market, growth marketing teams are data-literate by nature. They work with metrics, pipelines and signal quality every day. A buyer from this space isn’t going to accept “trust us, the data is clean” – they want to understand the methodology the way they’d evaluate a new data ingestion pipeline. We walked him through our sourcing and validation process in detail and the transparency earned the trust needed to move forward.

After clearing the methodology review, the buyer went one step further: he provided his own custom title taxonomy and requested a second sample built to those persona specifications. Only after validating that we could deliver against his ICP definitions – not just ours – did he proceed with the full purchase.

Two redirects. Two sample rounds. One methodology audit. Then a purchase built on verified confidence.

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 3,177 verified companies and around 8,953 decision-maker contacts, all focused on the competitor within the client’s displacement target set.

Every record was filtered against the buyer’s own title taxonomy and validated through two sample rounds before full delivery. The dataset was built to the buyer’s specifications, not ours – a critical distinction in a market where growth teams know exactly who they want to reach.

The Results

The buyer deployed the dataset through their growth marketing and ABM programs, targeting verified decision-makers – DevOps leads, SREs, platform engineers and security operations managers – at companies currently using the competing observability platform. In a market where engineering teams are increasingly sensitive to observability costs, with the client’s platform offering up to 70% TCO reduction over legacy solutions, the competitor-targeted data provided the fuel for a compelling displacement narrative.

Campaign performance

From the 3,117 verified competitor customers and 8,953 decision-maker contacts delivered, the buyer’s campaigns generated:

  • Positive response from 280+ companies across outbound, ABM, and event-driven touchpoints – with particularly strong engagement from mid-market engineering teams where observability cost pressure is highest and switching friction is lower than at enterprise scale
  • ~10% of engaged accounts converted into paying customers within the first two quarters of outreach, with strongest conversion among teams actively evaluating cost optimization of their observability stack
  • ~24% of those new customers expanded usage, adding data sources, teams, or upgrading tiers as their observability footprint grew – becoming repeat revenue accounts
  • The remaining engaged accounts entered nurture and pipeline cycles, with many flagged as high-intent prospects approaching contract renewal windows with their incumbent vendor
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