Market Signal Tracker Skill
When to Use
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Monitoring competitor launches, pricing moves, org shifts, funding, or partner announcements.
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Tracking analyst coverage, customer chatter, or social sentiment around competitors.
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Ensuring signals route to the right owners with context and deadlines.
Framework
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Signal Intake – capture source, timestamp, competitor, category (product, pricing, GTM, talent, regulation).
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Severity & Confidence – rate potential impact, confidence level, and affected product/segment.
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Routing – assign owners (product, enablement, comms, exec) with SLA + follow-up notes.
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Action Status – track planned/active/completed actions linked to each signal.
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Reporting – weekly digest summarizing net-new signals, escalations, and outstanding actions.
Templates
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Signal log spreadsheet or Notion database with views by competitor/category.
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Weekly digest template with highlights, escalations, and recommended actions.
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Action tracker with owner, due date, and dependency fields.
Tips
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Automate ingestion by connecting RSS, alerts, and social monitoring; maintain manual overrides for high-sensitivity items.
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Keep a rolling 90-day archive to reference trends and repeat patterns.
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Pair with analyze-competitive-landscape and run-win-loss-program for holistic perspective.