Fable field guides

Do the research yourself.
Know when to outsource it.

Specific, practical guides for the decisions behind a launch, a position, or an outbound campaign. Each one gives you a usable process—not a list of vague tips.

Competitor research · 11 min read

How to do a competitor teardown (with a free template)

Turn competitor pages, pricing, proof, and customer objections into a focused positioning decision. Includes a copyable evidence table and scoring rubric.

Read the teardown guide
Market validation · 10 min read

Market research before launching: a go/no-go checklist

A lightweight way to test the customer, problem, buying trigger, alternatives, access, and economics before you commit to a build.

Use the launch checklist
B2B outbound · 12 min read

How to build a qualified lead list for B2B outreach

Define a researchable ICP, find observable reasons to buy, verify each account, and produce a list your sales message can actually use.

Build a better lead list
Local services · 10 min read

Competitor analysis for local service businesses

A practical audit for cleaners, dentists, trades, clinics, and agencies: compare visibility, offer, trust, response path, and customer experience.

Run the local audit
Buying research · 9 min read

AI vs. human market research: what you actually get for $5

A plain-English comparison of DIY AI, fixed-scope AI research, freelance analysts, and research firms—including the limits that matter.

Compare the options
Market validation · 9 min read

Is my market too saturated?

Crowded is not the same as closed. Five signals that a niche still has room, four that it does not, and a one-afternoon check to tell them apart.

Test your niche
Pricing · 10 min read

How to price a new service

No sales data yet? Set a first price from the competitive picture: find your floor, read the market's shape, pick a position, and test it.

Set your price
Method · 9 min read

Reading competitor reviews for gaps

Your competitors’ customers already wrote down what is wrong with the category. Which reviews actually matter, what to ignore, and how to turn a complaint into a position.

Mine the reviews
Method · 9 min read

Is that competitor actually doing well?

Polish is cheap and traction is not. Which public signals reveal a competitor’s real health — hiring, shipping, pricing history — and which ones lie.

Read the signals
Method · 9 min read

What public data can you actually get about a private company?

What is genuinely on the record, what is only an estimate wearing a confident font, and what nobody can know without inventing it.

See what is obtainable
Method · 10 min read

How to size a market without buying a market-size report

Build the number bottom-up from counts and prices you can actually source, check it a second way, and narrow to the market you can really reach.

Size it yourself
Method · 9 min read

How to define an ideal customer profile you can actually search for

Adjectives can’t filter anything. Rewrite your ICP as observable, checkable attributes — so it can produce a real list of named companies.

Write a usable ICP
Method · 9 min read

You have the research. How do you turn it into a decision?

Knowing more and deciding are different acts, and only one is usually on the plan. How to close that gap — and when the honest answer is to buy more information.

Make the call
Method · 9 min read

Is your positioning actually different?

It always feels distinctive from the inside. Four tests — the swap, the opposite, the observable shadow, and the row of tabs — for whether it survives next to your real competitors.

Test your line
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