Story

I built DocBeacon because of a small moment that stuck with me. About a year ago, during a routine catch-up with our sales team, someone joked that most proposals vanish into silence after we send the PDF, and we end up calling blindly. Everyone laughed, but the frustration was real.

When I later decided to build something of my own, this was the first problem I came back to.

There are market-leading tools in this space that cover broader sales workflows. I wanted a sharper lens on reading behavior itself, so I focused DocBeacon on deeper document analytics.

With DocBeacon you can see who opened a document, how long they stayed, where attention drops, and how readers move across pages. I was especially interested in going beyond page-level stats to understand what people actually focus on within a page and how they progress through a document.

* Heatmaps show where attention clusters inside a page, not just which page was viewed.

* Reader paths visualize how people navigate a document. I use a Sankey style view to make loops, skips, and drop-offs easier to spot.

The viewer does not need to install anything or log in.

I would love feedback from anyone who sends important docs like proposals, pitch decks, specs, or hiring packets. What signals would actually change how you follow up or revise your content?