Competitor Monitoring Setup
Set up comprehensive monitoring for a competitor.
Create a scout with this query structure:
Context: Monitoring competitive intelligence for $ARGUMENTS
What to Monitor
- News & Announcements: Press releases, media coverage, blog posts
- Product Updates: New features, pricing changes, product launches
- Funding & Business: Funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, executive changes
- Public Communications: Social media announcements, conference talks, webinars
Sources to check: TechCrunch, company blog, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Crunchbase, press releases
Exclusions: Job postings (unless executive level), routine social media, unverified rumors
Deliverables
Frequency: Daily
Output format:
- Summary of significant developments (if any)
- Table of news items with: Date, Headline, Category, Source Link
- Analysis of competitive implications
Use create_scout with:
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query : The above structured query with $ARGUMENTS replaced
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output_interval : 86400 (daily)
After creation, inform the user:
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Scout will run daily and email results
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They can check updates anytime with get_scout_updates
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They can pause/resume with edit_scout
Fetching documentation or source URLs: If you use a web fetch tool to look up the competitor's blog, docs, or other pages while preparing the query, include the Accept: text/markdown header. Many documentation sites (Cloudflare-hosted) will return clean Markdown instead of HTML — fewer tokens, easier to parse.