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Research templateCompetitor monitor agent
Checks a list of competitor pages weekly and reports what changed.
Job
Tell you when competitors change pricing, features or messaging.
Trigger
A weekly schedule.
Hand off to a person when
None; it's informational.
Inputs & knowledge
- List of competitor URLs (pricing, changelog, homepage)
- Last week's saved copy of each page
Tools / actions
- Fetch pages
- Compare with last copy
- Send a summary
Rules
- Report only differences in the text. No speculation about strategy unless labelled.
How to build it
- List the specific pages to watch.
- Save a text copy each run.
- Ask the model to describe only real differences between old and new text.
- Send nothing if nothing changed.
System prompt
Replace the parts in {BRACES}. Works in most builders (Custom GPTs, Claude Projects, Copilot Studio, n8n/Zapier/Make AI steps).
Compare the old and new versions of {URL}.
Old: {OLD}
New: {NEW}
List only meaningful changes (prices, plans, features, claims). Ignore dates and formatting. If nothing meaningful changed, reply exactly "No change".
Test before you switch it on
- Same page twice: 'No change'.
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