MARKET RESEARCH
Daily USPTO Patent Watch for Tracked Competitors
Each morning, searches public patent databases for new filings and grants tied to your tracked competitor list, then posts a deduplicated digest to Slack with title, assignee…
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerWeekday 7am schedule
- ActionRead competitor watch listAirtable
- ActionSearch patent databases per competitorBrave Search
- LogicDedupe by publication number, filter to 24h window
- OutputPost grouped digest to SlackSlack
What it does
Runs a scheduled sweep of public patent sources for every competitor on your watch list and delivers a single, deduplicated morning digest to Slack. No more manually checking USPTO or Google Patents one company at a time.
When to use it
Use it when competitive intelligence is part of your role and you need a reliable, low-effort signal that a rival has filed or been granted something new. Good for product strategy, IP counsel, and founders tracking 5-30 named competitors.
How it works
- 1A scheduled trigger fires every weekday at 7am.
- 2The flow reads your competitor watch list from an Airtable table (company name plus known assignee aliases).
- 3For each competitor it runs a Brave web search scoped to patent databases, pulling results published in the last 24 hours.
- 4A logic step deduplicates against patents already seen (matching on publication number) and drops anything older than the window.
- 5New filings are formatted into a compact digest grouped by competitor.
- 6The digest posts to a Slack channel; if zero new filings, it posts a short "all quiet" line so the team knows the watch ran.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
- 2Connect Brave SearchWeb, news, image, video search.
- 3Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
- 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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