MARKET RESEARCH
Patent radar: discover net-new competitors filing in your technical space and add them to the watch-list
Weekly, uses Exa neural search to surface companies filing patents in your technology categories, screens out ones you already track.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerWeekly schedule starts sweep
- ActionNeural-search patent space per tech categoryExa
- ActionExtract company name and discovery reasonOpenAI
- LogicDiscard companies already on the watch-list
- OutputAdd net-new candidates to Airtable review viewAirtable
What it does
Expands your competitive radar instead of just monitoring it. Using Exa's semantic search across patent databases and tech news, it finds organizations actively filing in the technical areas you care about, compares them against your existing Airtable watch-list, and adds genuinely new players as candidate entries for review.
When to use it
When your concern is the unknown competitor — a startup or adjacent incumbent quietly building IP in your space — and you want a recurring sweep that grows your watch-list rather than only tracking known names.
How it works
- 1A weekly schedule starts the sweep.
- 2Exa runs neural searches for each of your technical categories to surface filing entities and their context.
- 3OpenAI extracts a clean company name and a one-line reason each appeared.
- 4A logic step cross-checks against the current Airtable watch-list and discards known companies.
- 5Net-new candidates are written to an Airtable 'review' view with the discovery reason and source.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect ExaNeural search across the web.
- 2Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
- 3Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
- 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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