MARKET RESEARCH
Weekly Patent-Filing Digest Mapped to Competitors
Every Monday, searches recent patent filings in a watched technology area, maps each assignee to a known competitor name, and posts a ranked digest to Slack.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerWeekly Monday schedule
- ActionExa search recent patent filings in tech areaExa
- ActionFirecrawl scrape filing pages for assignee + abstractFirecrawl
- ActionOpenAI map assignee to competitor watchlistOpenAI
- LogicRank by volume, flag new entrants
- OutputPost ranked digest to SlackSlack
What it does
Runs a scheduled scan of newly published patent filings for a technology area you care about (e.g. "solid-state battery electrolytes"), resolves each filing's assignee to a competitor on your watchlist, and delivers a ranked weekly digest of who is filing what.
When to use it
For competitive-intelligence and product-strategy teams who want a standing pulse on where rivals are investing R&D, without manually trawling patent databases. Best when you already track a fixed set of competitor names.
How it works
- 1A weekly schedule fires on Monday morning.
- 2Exa searches patent and IP sources for filings in the configured tech area from the last 7 days.
- 3Firecrawl scrapes each filing page to extract assignee, title, abstract, and filing date.
- 4OpenAI normalizes each assignee to a canonical competitor name from your watchlist and tags filings whose assignee is unknown.
- 5A logic step ranks competitors by filing volume and flags net-new entrants.
- 6The digest is posted to a Slack channel with per-competitor counts and notable filings.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect ExaNeural search across the web.
- 2Connect FirecrawlCrawl, scrape, structured extract.
- 3Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
- 4Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
- 5Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 6Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 7Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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