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Keep an eye on your competitors

“I find out about competitors' price changes and launches way too late.”

AI can check competitor sites, prices, ads, job posts and reviews on a schedule and send a short weekly brief with sources.

Fix it yourself in 3 steps

List 3–5 competitors and what you care about (prices, new features, hiring, reviews).
Ask the AI for a first baseline report with links.
Schedule a weekly brief showing only what changed.

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Track these competitors: [list]. Check their pricing pages, product updates, job postings and recent reviews. Give me a baseline table now with source links. Each week after, report only what changed and why it might matter to us. Use public info only. Stop after the baseline.

Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.

Agents people used for this: Claude, Manus, ChatGPT Agent, Claude Cowork.

Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.

📚 11 real stories of people doing this with AI agents

Have an agent research its own competitors · custom-built or unnamed agent
Monitor competitor marketplace prices · Grok Bot
Monitor tech subreddits and competitors, draft emails and articles · Claude Cowork
Produce competitor research reports and build a landing page · Manus
Research and benchmark competitors into a deck and spreadsheet · ChatGPT Agent
Run a Monday competitor-monitoring brief from job listings · Claude
Run a weekly competitive-monitoring briefing for product management · Hermes Agent
Send a daily competitor ad research report to Slack · Manus
Track competitor prices and contacts into Google Sheets · Claude
Track competitor prices weekly across five sites · custom-built or unnamed agent
Track daily price and stock changes on Shopify stores · custom-built or unnamed agent

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