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A competitor has just shipped the feature at the top of your roadmap. How do you respond?
5 min readUpdated 2026-08-15
Answer
Short answer
Establish whether anything changed for your customers before changing your plan, then choose deliberately between accelerating, differentiating, ignoring it and reframing the category — and treat the competitor's launch as evidence about the market rather than an instruction.
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