MARKET RESEARCH

Detect Quarter-over-Quarter Guidance Changes Across Competitors

Weekly, compare each tracked competitor's newest filing against their prior quarter to surface raised, lowered, or withdrawn guidance.

CategoryMarket Research
Enginesim
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerWeekly schedule
  • ActionFind competitors that filed this weekPerplexityPerplexity
  • ActionFetch new filing textFirecrawl
  • ActionDiff guidance vs prior quarter and classify directionOpenAI
  • LogicDrop filings with no guidance change
  • OutputAppend guidance-delta rows to Coda trackerCodaCoda

What it does

Runs a weekly sweep across your tracked competitors, finds anyone who filed since the last run, and compares the new filing's guidance and outlook language against the previous quarter on record. It writes a row only when guidance actually moved — raised, lowered, narrowed, or withdrawn — so the tracker stays signal, not noise.

When to use it

Use it when guidance direction is the metric you care about most and you want a clean, deduplicated change log rather than a summary of every filing. Good for finance and strategy teams building a longitudinal view of competitor confidence.

How it works

  1. 1A weekly schedule kicks off the sweep.
  2. 2Perplexity resolves which tracked companies filed in the past week and locates the filing URLs.
  3. 3Firecrawl pulls the new filing text.
  4. 4OpenAI diffs the new guidance language against the prior-quarter record and classifies the change direction.
  5. 5A logic gate discards filings where guidance is unchanged.
  6. 6Changed-guidance rows are appended to the Coda delta tracker with old-vs-new values.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect PerplexitySearch-grounded answers with citations.
  2. 2
    Connect FirecrawlCrawl, scrape, structured extract.
  3. 3
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  4. 4
    Connect CodaDocs, packs, automations.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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