Monitor competitor websites for changes, analyze updates, generate competitive intelligence reports. Track pricing, content, features, and alert on significa...
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name: competitor-change-monitor
description: Monitor competitor websites for changes, analyze updates, generate competitive intelligence reports. Track pricing, content, features, and alert on significant changes.
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# Competitor Change Monitor
Automatically monitor competitor websites, detect changes, and generate actionable intelligence reports. Perfect for sales teams, product managers, and competitive strategists.
## What This Skill Does
Monitor a list of competitor websites continuously. Detect and analyze:
- **Pricing changes** (price increases/decreases)
- **New product launches** (feature announcements)
- **Content updates** (blog posts, case studies, testimonials)
- **Website structure changes** (new pages, navigation)
- **Messaging shifts** (homepage copy, value proposition)
- **Customer evidence** (testimonials, case studies, logos)
Generate automated reports with:
- Change summary (what changed and when)
- Competitive implications (what it means for you)
- Recommended actions (how to respond)
- Sentiment shift (tone analysis of marketing copy)
- Feature comparison (your features vs. theirs)
## When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when you need to:
- **Stay ahead of competition** → Monitor 3-5 key competitors continuously
- **Identify market threats** → Detect when competitors launch new features or pricing
- **Validate product strategy** → See what competitors are prioritizing
- **Support sales team** → Provide recent competitive intel to deal teams
- **Track marketing changes** → Monitor messaging shifts and positioning
- **Generate reports** → Weekly/monthly competitive intelligence for leadership
## How It Works
### Setup Phase
1. **Define competitors to monitor** → List of competitor domain URLs
2. **Set monitoring frequency** → Daily, weekly, or custom schedule
3. **Configure alerts** → What types of changes matter to you (pricing, content, etc.)
4. **Choose report style** → Executive summary, detailed analysis, or raw data
### Monitoring Phase
The agent:
- Takes a snapshot of each competitor website (HTML + content extract)
- Compares to previous snapshot using semantic diff
- Identifies meaningful changes (ignores nav reorders, minor wording)
- Categorizes changes (pricing, product, marketing, etc.)
- Generates change report with implications
### Reporting Phase
Automatic reports delivered:
- **Daily alerts** (if significant changes detected)
- **Weekly digest** (summary of all changes)
- **Monthly strategic report** (trends and implications)
- **Custom trigger reports** (on-demand analysis)
## Example Usage
```
User: "Monitor Stripe, Square, and PayPal. Alert me if they change pricing or add features."
Agent:
✓ Setup monitoring for stripe.com, square.com, paypal.com
✓ Configure alerts: pricing changes, feature announcements
✓ Schedule daily snapshot + weekly report
✓ Start baseline snapshot (current state)
[Day 3, 3pm]
Alert: Stripe updated their pricing page
- New tier: "Stripe Premium" at $299/month
- Feature added: "Dedicated account manager"
- Implication: Targeting mid-market customers directly
- Action: Review pricing to ensure competitiveness
[Weekly Report]
Competitors tracked: 3
Changes detected: 7
Most significant: PayPal launched "Commerce Manager" (new product)
Recommended action: Benchmark your comparable features
```
## Features Included
### Monitoring Capabilities
- **Continuous snapshots** → Weekly baseline snapshots of competitor sites
- **Change detection** → Semantic diff (understand what changed, not just text)
- **Categorization** → Automatically categorize changes (product, pricing, marketing)
- **Historical tracking** → Keep history of all changes per competitor
### Analysis & Intelligence
- **Competitive implications** → What does this change mean for your position?
- **Sentiment analysis** → Tone/messaging shifts in their marketing
- **Feature mapping** → Track new features they launch vs. what you have
- **Pricing intelligence** → Price changes, new tiers, discounting patterns
### Reporting
- **Daily alerts** → Real-time notification of significant changes
- **Weekly digest** → Consolidated report of all changes
- **Custom reports** → On-demand competitive analysis
- **Timeline view** → See competitor evolution over time
## Configuration Options
### Competitors to Monitor
```
competitors: [
{ name: "Stripe", url: "https://stripe.com", category: "payment" },
{ name: "Square", url: "https://square.com", category: "payment" },
{ name: "PayPal", url: "https://paypal.com", category: "payment" }
]
```
### Alert Triggers
```
alerts:
- pricing_change: true # Alert on any pricing page update
- new_product: true # Alert on feature announcements
- content_update: true # Alert on blog/case study changes
- messaging_shift: true # Alert on homepage copy changes
- minimum_change_score: 0.3 # Only alert if change is significant (0-1 scale)
```
### Report Schedule
```
reports:
daily_alert: true # Real-time alerts on changes
weekly_digest: "Monday 9am" # Weekly summary
monthly_strategic: "1st of month" # Strategic implications report
timezone: "America/New_York"
```
## Premium Features (Gumroad)
**Free features:**
- Monitor up to 3 competitors
- Weekly reports only
- Basic change detection
- Email delivery
**Premium ($19.99/month):**
- Monitor unlimited competitors
- Daily alerts + weekly + monthly reports
- Advanced change detection (semantic understanding)
- Slack integration (real-time alerts in your channel)
- Custom report scheduling
- Feature comparison matrix (auto-generated)
- Pricing intelligence dashboard
- 90-day change history
**Enterprise ($99+/month):**
- API access (integrate with your systems)
- Custom alert rules (regex, patterns)
- White-label reports
- Team collaboration (shared workspace)
- Custom integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.)
- Priority support
## Implementation Notes
This skill uses:
- **Web scraping** (fetch competitor website HTML)
- **Semantic diffing** (understand what changed)
- **LLM analysis** (extract meaning from changes)
- **Scheduled jobs** (continuous monitoring)
- **Email/Slack delivery** (reports)
For detailed API documentation and configuration, see `references/api-guide.md`.
## Tips for Best Results
1. **Start with 3-5 competitors** → Too many = alert fatigue
2. **Tune alert sensitivity** → Adjust minimum_change_score to reduce noise
3. **Review weekly** → Set aside time to review reports weekly
4. **Act on insights** → Change isn't intelligence without action
5. **Cross-reference** → Combine with sales intel and market research
## Related Skills
- `content-repurposer` → Turn competitor content into your content
- `market-researcher` → Deep dive market analysis
- `sales-battle-cards` → Auto-generate sales battlecards from comp intel
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**Status:** Production ready | **Last updated:** May 2026 | **Maintained by:** ClawHub Community
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