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What's growing.
Who's winning.
Across the open web.

Track category trends, brand share, and competitor assortment shifts from real web data. Variant-level depth, full history, your tools.

Two questions drive most market intelligence work: what is growing in a category, and who is winning share inside it. Extralt answers both from the open web, with variant-level data and a timestamp on every observation. Built for brand strategists, category managers, and equity research teams who need to read the market without waiting for a merchant feed or a panel report.

market intelligence · three angles

One market, three angles on its motion.

CAT·TME

What's launching and what's growing?

Every product time-stamped from first observation, every listing kept with its date. Spot new entrants the day they land on the open web. Watch a category shift in volume, price tier, and brand mix over weeks and months.

CAT·BRK

Who has what slice of this category?

One category, broken down by brand, price tier, and attribute. Brand share computed from the live assortment, not estimated from a panel. Drill in to see exactly which products make up the cut.

BRD·TME

How is this brand expanding?

One brand's catalog over time. New SKU launches, category drift, price-tier shifts. The picture you usually only get from a quarterly analyst report, recomputed weekly from real listings.

aggregations & analytics

Slice the market the way your team thinks.

Every listing carries a category path, a brand, a price, a country, and a timestamp. That structure makes the analytics downstream cheap. Aggregate by category and date for trends. Group by brand within a category for share. Diff two snapshots of a brand catalog to see what launched.

We do not lock the analysis behind a dashboard. The data lives where you can query it: REST API, SQL access, CSV export, or a direct connection from your own analytics tool. The questions are yours. So is the tool.

  • Time-series rollupsVolume, price-tier mix, attribute mix, and brand mix per period. Daily, weekly, monthly. Same data, your cadence.
  • Brand share at any cutBy SKU count, by listing count, by observation frequency, or weighted by price. Compute the share metric your team trusts, not the one a vendor picked for you.
  • Cross-category comparisonsCompare a brand's footprint across categories, or one category's structure across countries. Same fields, no translation step in the middle.
  • New-launch surfacingFilter on first-observed timestamp inside a category and brand window. Get the launches your competitors are pushing the day they appear.

deliverables

What you get

Granularity

Variant-level

Roll up to category, brand, country

History

Full timeline

Timestamped from first observation

Coverage

Open web

No merchant opt-in required

Access

API · SQL · CSV

Bring your own analytics tool

why extralt

Built for reading the market, not selling a dashboard.

01

Ground truth, not panels

We observe the live web, not a sampled panel and not a merchant-submitted feed. New launches and regional retailers show up because we saw them, not because someone signed a feed agreement.

02

Variant-level, not page-level

A shoe in 4 colors is 4 records, not 1. Most market intel collapses to SKU or page level and loses the resolution that makes attribute and price-tier analysis meaningful.

03

Your tool, not ours

API, SQL, CSV. Plug into Hex, Jupyter, Tableau, or whatever your team already uses. We are the data layer. The analysis stays where you do the rest of your work.

All of this runs on Explore, the query layer of the Extralt pipeline. Aggregations and analytics over the same enriched variants and listings that power price monitoring and product data, with API, SQL, and CSV access.

who it's for

For teams that need to see the whole market, not a slice of it.

  • Brand strategists & market researchersRead the market across categories, brands, and countries without commissioning a panel report every quarter. Refresh the picture as often as you want.
  • Category managers & merchandisersPlan assortment with the actual market in view. Spot white space, premium drift, and competitor expansion before the buy meeting, not after.
  • Investor & equity research teamsTrack competitive dynamics and assortment growth at retailer-level resolution. Build conviction (or skepticism) on a public-comp story from observed data, not management commentary.

faq

Common questions

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