Add a Competitive Intelligence line item to your retainers. Your brand on the cover.
Your clients ask “what are our competitors doing?” every QBR. Hiring a junior analyst is €40K + 6-month ramp + churn risk. Building it in-house is a margin tax. Quintara delivers 4–10 white-labeled competitor reports per month, your brand on the cover, at €500–1,500/mo. You charge clients €1.5–3K/mo per slot. Margin is yours.
The Agency Partnership tier is for established 5–15 person B2B marketing agencies who want to add competitive intelligence to their retainer stack without building the research engine themselves. Quintara is the engine. You’re the brand the client sees. The reports look like your reports because they are your reports — we don’t appear in the deliverable, the contract, or the client communication.
The math your clients see
A typical “Competitive Intelligence” retainer line item runs €1.5–3K/mo per client — sometimes higher for larger accounts. You’re selling a monthly sourced brief on the client’s competitive set with a named next move. The agency-side cost to deliver (Quintara) is €100–150 per report all-in. Margin sits at 70–90%. The line item also raises your overall retainer ceiling — clients perceive you as more strategic, less executional.
| Axis | Hire a junior analyst | Quintara Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Year-1 cost | €40K salary + €8K overhead + onboarding time. | €500–1,500/mo (€6K–18K/yr) depending on volume tier. |
| Output capacity | 4–6 reports/mo once ramped (after month 3). | 4–10 reports/mo from month 1, no ramp. |
| Quality variance | Junior analyst skill curve. Reports vary month to month. | Same methodology every report. Sourced rubric documented. |
| Turnover risk | Analyst leaves in year 2; you re-hire and re-ramp. | Quintara persists. Damyan ships every report personally. |
| Branding | Your reports, your brand — you built the templates. | Your brand on the cover. Quintara never appears in the deliverable. |
How the partnership works
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Scope with the client
You handle the client conversation. You name the four competitors, the cadence (monthly or quarterly), the depth (standard or deep-dive), and the format requirements. You own the relationship and the pricing.
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Brief Quintara via shared spreadsheet
Single shared Google Sheet for all your client briefs. One line per report. We pick it up, run the audit, deliver the PDF to a shared Drive folder within 48 hours of brief. You QA, brand it, and send to the client under your name. No timeline pressure on the client — they see polished research.
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Bill monthly, flat rate
€500/mo for 4 reports. €1,000/mo for 7 reports. €1,500/mo for 10 reports. Lock the rate for 12 months at signup. Reports unused in a month roll forward 30 days. Cancel any month with 30-day notice.
Anti-fit: when this isn’t the right partnership
The partnership doesn’t fit if any of these are true: your agency is under 5 people (the volume math doesn’t pencil out — one or two Pulse subscriptions are cheaper); your clients want raw data and tools rather than synthesised reports (Crayon agency tier serves that better); your client base is enterprise (Fortune 500) where competitive sets and methodology requirements are different from the SaaS-SMB world Quintara’s research engine is calibrated for.