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Competitive Intelligence — Weekly Sync

📅 Week 7 — May 11, 2026 · ⏱ 30 minutes · 👥 Weekly cadence

Agenda​

#Topic
1Competitive and Client Testing — Key Findings
2Competitive Research — Key Findings
3Win/Loss — Competitive Win-Backs (Salesforce)
4Social Media — Key Findings
5What's Next — Open Planning

1 · Competitive and Client Testing (Julia) — Key Findings​

Confirmed compliance vulnerabilities​

Verified provider transition​

Unsuccessful spoofing methods (positive results)​

  • ✓ iOS Sideloading with PlayCover — Bet365 MI, Fanatics TN, Bet Saracen AR
    Desktop-based emulation of iOS via PlayCover successfully restricted across all three operators. Bet365 + Fanatics neutralized at authentication; Bet Saracen identified at the betting stage. No successful exploitations across tested jurisdictions — robust defense against this hardware-abstraction method.
  • ✓ Resigned iOS app — Bet Saracen AR + Fanatics TN — integrity-control bypass attempts via application resigning were identified and blocked. Application sandbox intact.
  • ✓ Device farm VMOS — Fanatics TN, RSI BetRivers — Fanatics successfully mitigated via proxy-based detection. RSI BetRivers test inconclusive (client crashed prior to geolocation verification).

Replay Attack — test results​

  • ✗ RobinHood TN — no device-level geolocation in place
    IP-only verification. Basic spoofing tools went undetected. Significantly short of regulated gaming standards. Meaningful compliance exposure.
    🎫 CIV-60 — RobinHood - RAT
  • ✓ Bet365 TN (Radar) — network-level attacks fully blocked.
    Minor visibility gap (parts of the verification flow viewable / editable) — not exploitable in practice. No compliance risk at this time.

2 · Competitive Research (Valeria) — Key Findings​

Carry-over from monthly brief (May 5) — no new research signals this week beyond test results above.

3 · End-user Feedback (Valeria) — Key Findings​

📊 Full dataset: Social Media Competitive Signals · Reddit + X/Twitter public posts. Monitoring initiated March 2026.

Carry-over from May 5 monthly brief — no new social signals this week beyond test results above.

4 · What's Next — Plan for Next Week​

Field Testing​

  • Underdog DFS — various RDPs to test
  • Alberta launch (run P1 requests below):
    • mkodo compliance issues retest
    • LocationSmart compliance issues retest
  • GPS Simulator — test Bet365 MI, Fanatics MI, BetRivers MI, FD WV
  • Fanatics / OpenBet Locator — adv spoofing:
    • VMOS device farm (fresh VMOS Pixel device image)
    • Rooted Android / Hidden Root
    • Jailbroken iOS
    • Cross-border into exclusion zone for OpenBet on Fanatics
  • DroidVNC — test across competitors

Betting Hero​

  • Saracen AR:
    • "Remote Screen Sharing" app on different Windows laptops (was NOT reproduced on Melissa's Windows for Saracen AR / Underdog DFS)
    • Residential VPN — out-of-state / restricted jurisdiction
    • RDP detection — Windows Remote Desktop, VNC, MS Teams, RustDesk
  • bet365 MI — full validation

Integrations team​

  • TBD

All findings this week​

Competitor profiles​

Radar → · Xpoint → · OpenBet → · GeoLocs → · Locance →