MARKET RESEARCH
Emerging-Entrant Patent Detection to Airtable Watchlist
Weekly scan that flags assignees newly appearing in your tech space who were not filing before.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerWeekly schedule
- ActionCollect week's filings and assigneesExa
- LogicCompare against known-filer watchlistAirtable
- LogicFlag assignees with no prior record
- ActionAdd emerging entrants to AirtableAirtable
- OutputAlert Slack to new entrantsSlack
What it does
It looks specifically for new entrants: assignees filing in your tech space this week who do not appear in your historical Airtable watchlist. Established names are ignored. Genuinely new filers are added to Airtable and surfaced to Slack as potential emerging competitors worth watching.
When to use it
Use it when your biggest blind spot is not what known competitors do but who you have never heard of starting to file in your domain. It catches startups, adjacent-industry incumbents, and stealth players entering the space early.
How it works
- 1A weekly schedule triggers the scan.
- 2An Exa search collects the week's filings across the space's keywords and extracts assignee names.
- 3A logic step compares each assignee against the existing Airtable watchlist of known filers.
- 4Assignees with no prior record are flagged as emerging entrants.
- 5Each new entrant is added to Airtable with first-seen date, sample filing, and link.
- 6A Slack alert lists the new entrants so product can decide whether to monitor them.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect ExaNeural search across the web.
- 2Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
- 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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