Vol. 1 · Issue 12 · April 14, 2026

The competitive intelligence desk for category-leading Amazon brands.

Built for operators defending dominant share — and challengers hunting it.

Home & Kitchen. Electronics. Health & Household. Three categories, by choice.

Request a briefing Read this week’s brief →

Next brief: Monday · April 21 · 7:00 ET

how it works — the ritual

A weekly publication, built on a five-day rhythm.

Mon. The scraper pulls a fresh week of price, BSR, review-velocity, listing-diff, and Buy Box data across the covered set — roughly 3,100 products.
Tue. Anomalies surface. Structural moves get separated from promotional noise, new entrants flagged, share shifts sized.
Wed. Claims get drafted against the raw data; Keepa overlays fill in where the 30-day scraper window can’t settle a longer-dated pricing or BSR question.
Thu. Desk review. Every claim is audited against its source row. Anything the desk can’t hold up under the reader’s own audit gets cut.
Fri. The brief is finalized, scheduled for Monday, 7:00 ET delivery, and the week closes.

— The desk

what it replaces

What you’d otherwise do is hire an analyst, retain a consultancy, or run on gut. We are for operators who have tried all three.

  Status quo Internal analyst Consulting engagement
Cadence Ad hoc, reactive Continuous, in-house One-off engagement
Setup time — 3–6 months 6–12 weeks
Amazon expertise Variable Hire-dependent Generalist, trained on your dime
Output Spreadsheets, gut checks Slide decks on request 200-page reports
Cost $0 (opportunity cost) $120–180K/yr fully loaded $40–250K per engagement
Allen Analytics $299 / month or $3,588 / year, paid annually. Cancel any Monday.

The rigor of an analyst, the cadence of a newsroom, at the cost of a software subscription.

Allen Analytics briefs 25 brands. Currently covering 19.

Applications are reviewed by the desk before the first brief ships.

Three fields. Two required. The brief arrives first — we talk after you’ve read it.

Every brief arrives as email — readable in ten minutes — with a PDF attached for the record.

Work addresses work best. Free-mail domains get a quick reply explaining why.

We look up your category-match before the desk responds.

Primary categoryrequired

The desk covers these three. Adjacent categories: the desk will reply either way.

Two sentences is plenty. We’ll read it before replying.

Received.

Your request is on the desk.

Operator,

The desk reviews new applications through Thursday. By Friday, you’ll have one of two replies from us:

— A sample brief for your category, built from this week’s signal. Read it before you reply; we’ll talk after.

— A short note explaining why we’re not the right read for your week, with a pointer to when (or whether) we expect to be.

Either way, no sales call precedes the brief. That’s the model.

— the desk
  Allen Analytics

Monday Brief · Vol. 1 · Issue 12
Next brief: Monday April 21, 7:00 ET
Confirmation sent to your email

three questions operators ask

Before the first brief.

Isn’t this just Keepa or Helium 10?

Keepa shows data. Helium 10 is what your VA uses to look up keywords and BSR. Allen Analytics is what your leadership reads to make strategic calls — the three-to-five actions hidden in the data. Different layer, different budget line.

Will this save me time, or create more work?

A ten-minute read on Monday morning. Not a dashboard you have to learn, and not another login. The brief does the filtering and the interpretation before it reaches your inbox.

Can I walk away?

If the first brief isn’t useful, you owe us nothing and never hear from us again. Cancellation is a Monday email. We only want clients who keep reading on week four.

what the desk commits to

Every brief is desk-reviewed before it ships. No auto-generated reports. No model-hallucinated claims. Every price change, review count, and launch date is verifiable against public Amazon listings or your own Seller Central.

Your data stays private. We do not share intelligence between clients. Your competitive landscape is yours alone.

Three categories, by choice. Home & Kitchen, Electronics, Health & Household. We do not generalize. When the desk can’t brief a category to that standard, the application gets a straight answer.