A patent doesn't sell itself, and the salesperson who reads your battle card has thirty seconds before the next call. The risk with technology-led differentiation isn't that sales can't explain it — it's that they explain too much, leak the implementation, or claim a moat the engineering team can't defend in a follow-up call.
This worksheet is the template we hand to PMMs at companies whose differentiation depends on a real technical edge: a patent, a model architecture, a data pipeline, or a process that took two years to build. It assumes the goal is enabling sales without giving the competitor a roadmap.
Sales needs the claim, the proof, and the line they don't cross — in that order.
The four-section structure
Build it in this order
A claim missing any one of these either underperforms or leaks.
What the finished card should pass
Before you ship it to sales
The card is a working draft, not a deliverable. Revisit it after every quarter's win/loss review — the claim that worked in Q1 against a competitor's vaporware doesn't survive Q3 once they ship.
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Battle Cards
Give your reps the exact rebuttal for every competitor — updated automatically.
Battle Cards generates per-competitor rebuttal kits grounded in your own positioning — not generic 'we're better because' copy. When Competitor Signals detects a material move, the relevant card updates automatically.
- ✓Per-competitor cards built from your own positioning
- ✓Auto-updates when competitors change their story
- ✓Built for live deals, not slide decks that rot in Drive