AI AGENTS

Competitor Launch Watch to Teardown Alert

On a daily schedule, the agent scans for new product launches or announcements from a watchlist of competitors, and when it finds one.

CategoryAI Agents
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerDaily schedule fires against competitor watchlist
  • ActionFetch last-24h news per competitor via PerplexityPerplexityPerplexity
  • LogicFilter: keep only material launches/changes, else end
  • ActionDraft mini-teardown and self-check claimsOpenAI
  • OutputPost reviewed brief with sources to SlackSlack

What it does

It keeps a daily eye on your competitor watchlist and only acts when something real ships — a launch, pricing change, or major announcement. It then produces a short, fact-checked teardown of just that move and posts it to Slack.

When to use it

When you want to stop finding out about competitor launches from customers. Use it to feed product and sales a same-day brief whenever a tracked rival makes a move worth reacting to.

How it works

  1. 1A daily schedule kicks off the run against your saved competitor watchlist.
  2. 2Perplexity pulls fresh, dated news and announcements for each competitor over the last 24 hours.
  3. 3A relevance filter discards noise and keeps only genuine launches, pricing changes, or strategic shifts.
  4. 4If nothing material happened, the run ends silently with no alert.
  5. 5For each real event, the agent drafts a mini-teardown — what shipped, why it matters, our likely exposure — then self-checks the claims against the sources.
  6. 6The reviewed brief posts to a Slack channel with source links so the team can react fast.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect PerplexitySearch-grounded answers with citations.
  2. 2
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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