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Hear about a competitor's launch the day it happens

You hear about their launch the day it happens, not the day a customer mentions it.

Every day this recipe visits the competitor websites you've configured and runs a web search on each one, looking for announcements, articles, blog posts, and press releases. AI keeps what actually matters (launches, pricing moves, funding, partnerships, acquisitions) drops the hiring posts and campaign noise, and writes a short executive summary of what changed and why it matters to you.

Free · no credit card · you connect your own apps

The blueprint
Trigger
Daily Scan Schedule
Runs on a schedule, with nobody to remember it.
Transform
Load Competitors
Action
Scrape Competitor Website
Transform
AI Executive Summary
AI reads the input and returns a structured result.
Action
Notify Team (Email)
What gets built

3 things appear in your workspace.

Installing provisions each one, wired together and ready to run.

TableCompetitors

The competitors you track. One row per competitor: the display name and the website URL the scan should scrape each morning. This is your competitor URL list + name list.

TableCompetitor Updates

Every important update with competitor name, source, publication date, category, and the AI summary. Doubles as your searchable competitive-intelligence archive.

WorkflowDaily Competitor Scan

Runs on a daily schedule. Visits each configured competitor website, runs a web search per competitor, filters the collected content with AI, writes the executive summary, logs the record, and notifies product and marketing.

What you connect

The apps this recipe needs.

You connect your own accounts. Swap any app that offers an alternative at install.

Intel Notify
Slack *

Push each important competitor update to your product/marketing channel with the AI summary and a link to the repository. Swap for Telegram, Discord, or Google Chat.

Intel Email
Gmail *

Email the team a branded digest of each important update with a link to the Competitor Updates table. Swap for Brevo.

Tavily Extract
Tavily *

Extracts clean, current page content from each configured competitor website so the AI has real content to analyze. Swap for Jina Reader.

Tavily Search
Tavily *

Runs an AI-optimized web search on each competitor to discover recent announcements, news, and press beyond their own site.

How it works

Step by step, once it is running.

  1. 01
    It Runs Every Day On Its Own

    A scheduled workflow fires daily. Nobody has to remember to check, and nothing depends on one person's browser habit.

  2. 02
    It Visits Their Sites and Searches the Web

    For each competitor you've configured, the workflow visits their website and also runs a general web search on them, looking for recent announcements, news articles, blog posts, and press releases. Searching the open web is what catches the coverage they never published themselves.

  3. 03
    AI Reads Everything Collected

    It analyzes the content gathered from both the competitor websites and the search results, looking for genuine business updates rather than page changes.

  4. 04
    It Keeps Only What Moves Your Market

    Product launches, new feature releases, pricing changes, funding announcements, partnerships, acquisitions, and major company announcements.

  5. 05
    And Drops the Noise

    Hiring posts, marketing campaigns, social media posts, and other non-critical news are filtered out before they ever reach you, which is the difference between intelligence and another feed to ignore.

  6. 06
    Every Real Update Gets an Executive Summary

    For each important update, AI writes a concise summary highlighting what changed and why it matters. You read a conclusion, not a press release.

  7. 07
    It's Logged and Your Team Is Notified

    Each summarized update is stored in TinyTables with the competitor name, source, publication date, category, and AI summary. Product and marketing receive an email or Slack notification carrying the summary and a link to the record.

  8. 08
    It Compounds Into an Intelligence Archive

    TinyTables becomes a searchable repository of competitor intelligence: review historical updates, identify market trends, and monitor how a rival has moved over months, not only this morning.

What you walk away with
FAQ

Questions about Competitor News Monitoring.

What do I need to connect?
Slack and Gmail are both required: updates are pushed to your channel and emailed as a digest. Web research runs through Tavily, connected at install, where Tavily Search finds coverage and Tavily Extract pulls clean page content. Extract can be swapped for Jina Reader.
How is this different from watching their website?
It also searches the open web. Visiting a competitor's site only finds what they chose to publish. The search step catches funding announcements, press coverage and partnership news that appeared somewhere else entirely.
What counts as news worth alerting me about?
Product launches, new feature releases, pricing changes, funding announcements, partnerships, acquisitions and major company announcements. Hiring posts, marketing campaigns and social posts are filtered out before they reach you.
How do I change which competitors are tracked?
Edit the Competitors table. It holds one row per competitor with a display name and the website the scan should read, and the daily workflow re-reads the whole table on every run, so additions and removals take effect on the next scan.
Do I get a pile of links to read?
No. Each important update gets a short executive summary saying what changed and why it matters, stored in the Competitor Updates table with the source, publication date and category. Over time that table becomes a searchable competitive timeline.
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Install it, then make it yours.

Everything it creates is an ordinary form, table and workflow in your workspace. Edit any of it after install. Nothing is locked.