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Intermediate
Marketing
Competitive Intelligence
Automation

Build a Competitor Intelligence Monitor

Automatically track your competitors' product updates, pricing changes, marketing campaigns, and content strategy — and get an AI-written weekly digest.

Time Required

2 hrs setup / 0 min weekly

Expected Result

A weekly digest in your inbox or Notion summarizing every meaningful change your top 3–5 competitors made that week.

1

Identify Your Tracking Sources

List the pages you want to monitor per competitor: pricing page, blog RSS, press release page, LinkedIn page, and Product Hunt. This becomes your source list.

2

Set Up Change Monitoring

Use Zapier's RSS or web monitoring triggers to detect when any of these pages change or publish new content. Route all alerts to a central Airtable or Google Sheet log.

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3

Enrich with AI Analysis

For each new piece of competitor content detected, use Make to send it to Perplexity. Prompt: 'Summarize this competitor update and explain its strategic implications in 3 bullets.'

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4

Compile Weekly Digest

Every Friday, use Zapier's Digest to pull all that week's competitor alerts and summaries. Send to Claude to write a coherent competitive intelligence briefing.

Claude
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5

Share and Archive

Post the digest to a dedicated Slack channel and save it to Notion AI with the date tagged. Notion AI makes it searchable and summarizable over time.

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