MARKET RESEARCH
Strategic-Bet Brief from Competitor Hiring Clusters
An agent pulls a competitor's recent postings, clusters them by function and seniority, infers the implied strategic bet.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerOperator runs with competitor name
- ActionScrape competitor job boardApify
- ActionEnrich with recent web contextExa
- LogicCluster and infer strategic bets with citations
- LogicValidate every claim cites a posting
- OutputWrite sourced brief to NotionNotion
What it does
Given a competitor name, this workflow assembles their current hiring footprint and reasons about what it implies. Instead of a raw list of jobs, it produces a written brief: "Heavy hiring in field sales + solutions engineering across three new metros suggests an enterprise land-and-expand push." Every inference is tied back to the specific postings that support it.
When to use it
Use it when you need a defensible, narrative read on a single competitor ahead of a board update, a pricing decision, or a positioning review. It trades the speed of an alert for depth and reasoning.
How it works
- 1An operator triggers the run with a competitor name.
- 2Apify scrapes that competitor's job board for active postings.
- 3Exa enriches with recent web context (funding, launches, leadership moves) to ground the analysis.
- 4The agent clusters postings by function, seniority, and location, then drafts an inferred strategic bet for each cluster with the supporting postings cited.
- 5A logic step checks the brief cites at least one posting per claim and flags thin sections.
- 6The finished brief is written to Notion, tagged by competitor and date.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect ApifyActors, scrapers, datasets.
- 2Connect ExaNeural search across the web.
- 3Connect NotionPages, databases, comments.
- 4Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 5Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 6Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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