MARKET RESEARCH

Tech-Stack Shift Miner

Parses the skills and tools named in a competitor's engineering job descriptions, detects when their required stack changes, and logs platform migrations to a BigQuery trend table.

CategoryMarket Research
Enginesim
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerWeekly schedule fires
  • ActionScrape engineering job descriptionsApify
  • ActionExtract normalized technology listOpenAI
  • LogicAggregate and diff stack vs prior week
  • OutputWrite stack-trend record to warehouseGoogle BigQueryBigQuery

What it does

Job descriptions quietly broadcast a company's technical bets. This workflow pulls a competitor's engineering postings, extracts the named languages, frameworks, cloud providers, and tools from each description, and tracks how that skill mix shifts over time. A sudden appearance of, say, Rust or a new cloud vendor flags a platform migration or new architecture before it ships.

When to use it

Use it when a rival's technical direction is competitively meaningful — you sell developer tooling, compete on performance, or want to anticipate their roadmap. Best run on companies posting enough engineering roles to give a stable signal.

How it works

  1. 1A weekly schedule fires the run.
  2. 2Apify scrapes the competitor's engineering job descriptions.
  3. 3OpenAI extracts a normalized list of technologies and tools from each description.
  4. 4A logic step aggregates technology frequencies and compares them to the prior week's mix to flag newly introduced or dropped tools.
  5. 5The per-technology counts and detected shifts are written to a BigQuery table as a longitudinal stack-trend record for analysis and dashboards.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect ApifyActors, scrapers, datasets.
  2. 2
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  3. 3
    Connect BigQueryDatasets, queries, schemas.
  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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