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Intermediate
Research
Competitive Intelligence
Marketing
Automation

Build a Trend Monitoring and Alert System

Set up an automated system that surfaces emerging trends in your industry every morning — so you're always the first to know and publish.

Time Required

2–3 hrs setup, then automated

Expected Result

A daily automated briefing delivered to your inbox or Slack covering new trends, competitor moves, and relevant news in your niche.

1

Define Your Monitoring Keywords

Use Perplexity to identify the 20–30 most important keywords, brands, and topics in your niche. These form your monitoring universe.

Perplexity
2

Set Up Brand24 Monitoring

Create a Brand24 project with your keyword list. Configure alerts for volume spikes, sentiment shifts, and influencer mentions. Set up daily digest delivery.

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3

Add Newsletter Intelligence

Subscribe to 5–10 industry newsletters and set up a dedicated email folder. Use Superhuman's AI summaries or Claude to batch-process them each morning in 10 minutes.

Superhuman
Claude
4

Automate the Daily Digest

Build a Make or Zapier workflow that pulls Brand24 alerts, top social mentions, and RSS feed items overnight and compiles them into a single Notion page or Slack message each morning.

Make
Zapier
Notion AI
5

Act on Trends Fast

When a trend surfaces, use Perplexity to research it in 10 minutes and ChatGPT to draft a reactive LinkedIn post or article angle while it's still early.

Perplexity
ChatGPT
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