Overview
Competitive monitoring degrades into a folder of unread alerts. This agent checks a defined set of sources weekly, compares against last week's snapshot, and reports only what actually changed — with a link to the evidence for each item.
The filtering is the product: an alert stream nobody reads is worse than no monitoring.
Business value
Replaces scattered manual checking with one briefing that names what changed and why it matters.
Expected outcome
A weekly digest of genuine changes across the tracked set, each with a source link and a materiality note.
Problems it solves
- Alerts fire on noise and get muted
- Manual competitor checks slip when everyone is busy
- Pricing and positioning changes are noticed late
- No record of how a competitor evolved over time
Who it is for
- Product marketing teams
- Founders tracking a competitive set
- Strategy and corporate development teams
Benefits
- Reports changes, not activity
- Every item carries a source link to verify
- Week-over-week snapshots build a change history
- One briefing replaces many alert streams
Limitations
- Only sees public information
- JavaScript-heavy sites need a rendering fetch to read correctly
- Cannot judge strategic intent — it reports what changed, not why
- Materiality assessment needs your context to be useful
Success metrics
- Material changes surfaced per month
- False-positive rate in the digest
- Time from competitor change to internal awareness
- Digest read rate
Flow diagram
Every step in order, colour-coded by how much of it runs without a human.
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Steps
7 steps from trigger to result.
Fetch the tracked sources
- Respect robots.txt and rate limits — aggressive scraping gets your IP blocked and can breach terms of service
Diff against last week
- Most of the engineering effort here is discarding noise, not detecting change
Assess materiality
Assess these competitor changes for materiality to us.
Our positioning: {{our_positioning}}
Our target segments: {{segments}}
Changes detected:
{{change_set}}
For each change:
- what changed, in one line
- source URL
- materiality: high|medium|low|noise
- why it matters to us specifically, or why it does not
Be ruthless with "noise". A reworded headline is noise. A new pricing tier is not. If everything this week is noise, say so — an empty digest is a valid and useful result.
Write the digest
Distribute and archive
Team review
AI tools
Each tool records the role it plays and whether it is required.
ChatGPT
Primary
Required
OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for writing, research, coding, data analysis and everyday work
Claude
Supporting
Required
A safety-focused AI assistant built for long documents, careful reasoning and real work.
Perplexity
Supporting
Optional
An answer engine that cites its sources — search and AI in one interface.
Integrations
Services this workflow connects to, and how each authenticates.
Prompt library
Every prompt in the workflow, in chain order. Swap the highlighted placeholders for your own values.
Assess these competitor changes for materiality to us.
Our positioning: {{our_positioning}}
Our target segments: {{segments}}
Changes detected:
{{change_set}}
For each change:
- what changed, in one line
- source URL
- materiality: high|medium|low|noise
- why it matters to us specifically, or why it does not
Be ruthless with "noise". A reworded headline is noise. A new pricing tier is not. If everything this week is noise, say so — an empty digest is a valid and useful result.
Prerequisites
Have these ready before you start.
Use cases
Product marketing intelligence
Track competitor positioning and messaging shifts weekly.
Positioning stays currentPricing monitoring
Detect pricing and packaging changes the week they happen.
Faster pricing responseMarket landscape tracking
Maintain an evidence-backed record of how a market is moving.
Documented market historyMetrics
Author estimates — treat them as a starting point and measure your own runs.
Accepts
Produces
FAQ
Is monitoring competitor websites legal?
How do we stop the digest becoming noise?
Can it tell us why a competitor made a change?
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