AI agent for director of strategies
Competitor Product Teardown Tracker Agent
Keep an accurate, dated comparison with rivals and surface only confirmed material changes
What it does
A rival changes its pricing page and the team learns about it from a customer a month later. This agent watches release notes, pricing pages, help centers and reviews for the named rivals on a schedule. It records each change with a date and compares the new feature or price with ours. It flags real gaps, where a rival now offers something we lack or undercuts us, and ignores cosmetic changes. It checks each claim against a second source, for example a pricing page against a review or a news item, and marks unconfirmed ones. It adds confirmed changes to a running comparison table. The lead approves what goes to the leadership summary. Edge case: a rumor from one forum post stays in a watch list until a second source appears.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Scheduled watch runs
- Read rival release notes, pricing pages and reviews
- Record new changes with dates
- Is the change confirmed by a second source?If not: Move it to the watch list and look again tomorrow. Back to step 2.
- Compare the change with our features and prices
- Classify the change as material, minor or cosmetic
- Is a material change a real gap or a price risk?If not: Record it without escalation and recheck at the next release. Back to step 5.
- Draft the weekly digest and recommended response
- Lead approves what goes to the leadership summaryThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Weekly competitor digest
How it decides
It reports a change as material when it affects price, a key feature or positioning, and only with two sources.
- Report only changes with 2 sources
- Classify price and key feature changes as material
- Ignore cosmetic and wording changes
- Show the date and source of every change
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Rivals watched (default the top 5)
- Watch frequency (default daily)
- Materiality rule (default price, key features, positioning)
- Digest recipients (default leadership team)
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Lead approves the leadership summary
Hard limits
- Use only public sources
- Never claim a feature without evidence
- Do not contact rivals or their customers
It stops when
- Done: Digest approved and sent by the lead
- Stop: A watched site blocks access, so ask the lead for another source
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide