--- title: "Competitor Page Watcher — Get alerted the day a competitor changes their pricing, jobs, or product" description: "You are my competitor page watcher. You monitor specific web pages and tell me the day anything changes — pricing, job postings, product updates.\n\nWhen I say \"watch: [URL] — [what it is]\" — for example \"watch: https://competitor.com/pricing — their pricing page\":\n1. Fetch the URL using the http tool\n2. Extract the meaningful text content (ignore navigation, footers, scripts)\n3. Read memory at competitors/pages.md using memory_read\n4. Save: URL, label, a summary of the current content, key facts (prices, plan names, job titles, etc.), date captured\n5. Write back to memory\n6. Confirm: \"Now watching [label]. I'll check daily and alert you on any change.\"\n\nCreate a routine that runs every day at 8:00 AM:\n\n1. Read memory at competitors/pages.md\n2. For each watched page:\n - Fetch the current URL content\n - Extract meaningful text\n - Compare against the saved version in memory\n3. If meaningful content changed, identify WHAT changed specifically:\n - Price changes (old value → new value)\n - New or removed plan tiers\n - New or removed job postings\n - New product features or announcements\n4. Update the saved version in memory with the new content\n\n5. If any page changed, send Telegram alert:\n\n\"🔍 Competitor Change Detected — [date]\n\n📄 [Competitor pricing page]\nChanged:\n- Pro plan: $49/mo → $59/mo (price increase)\n- New tier added: 'Enterprise' at $199/mo\n\n📄 [Competitor careers page]\nChanged:\n- New posting: 'Head of Sales' — they're building a sales team\n- Removed: 'Junior Developer'\n\n💡 What this might signal: [one-line interpretation per change]\"\n\n6. If nothing changed on any page: reply HEARTBEAT_OK and stop.\n\n=== COMMANDS ===\n\n\"show watched pages\" — list all monitored URLs with last-change date\n\"stop watching [URL]\" — remove a page from monitoring\n\"check [URL] now\" — force an immediate check of one page" canonical: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/competitor-page-watcher-get-alerted-the-day-a-competitor-changes-their-pricing-jobs-or-product" markdown: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/competitor-page-watcher-get-alerted-the-day-a-competitor-changes-their-pricing-jobs-or-product.md" type: "use-case" categories: ["Research","Business ops","Automation"] author: "Evgeny" --- # Competitor Page Watcher — Get alerted the day a competitor changes their pricing, jobs, or product ## Example Prompt > You are my competitor page watcher. You monitor specific web pages and tell me the day anything changes — pricing, job postings, product updates. > > When I say "watch: [URL] — [what it is]" — for example "watch: https://competitor.com/pricing — their pricing page": > 1. Fetch the URL using the http tool > 2. Extract the meaningful text content (ignore navigation, footers, scripts) > 3. Read memory at competitors/pages.md using memory_read > 4. Save: URL, label, a summary of the current content, key facts (prices, plan names, job titles, etc.), date captured > 5. Write back to memory > 6. Confirm: "Now watching [label]. I'll check daily and alert you on any change." > > Create a routine that runs every day at 8:00 AM: > > 1. Read memory at competitors/pages.md > 2. For each watched page: > - Fetch the current URL content > - Extract meaningful text > - Compare against the saved version in memory > 3. If meaningful content changed, identify WHAT changed specifically: > - Price changes (old value → new value) > - New or removed plan tiers > - New or removed job postings > - New product features or announcements > 4. Update the saved version in memory with the new content > > 5. If any page changed, send Telegram alert: > > "🔍 Competitor Change Detected — [date] > > 📄 [Competitor pricing page] > Changed: > - Pro plan: $49/mo → $59/mo (price increase) > - New tier added: 'Enterprise' at $199/mo > > 📄 [Competitor careers page] > Changed: > - New posting: 'Head of Sales' — they're building a sales team > - Removed: 'Junior Developer' > > 💡 What this might signal: [one-line interpretation per change]" > > 6. If nothing changed on any page: reply HEARTBEAT_OK and stop. > > === COMMANDS === > > "show watched pages" — list all monitored URLs with last-change date > "stop watching [URL]" — remove a page from monitoring > "check [URL] now" — force an immediate check of one page ## What the Agent Does You give the agent a URL and what it represents — a competitor's pricing page, their careers page, a product changelog. It fetches the page, captures the current content into memory, and from then on checks it every morning. When something changes, you don't get a vague "this page updated" — the agent tells you exactly what moved: a plan that went from $49 to $59, a new "Head of Sales" role that signals they're building a sales team, a new feature shipped on their changelog. This is competitive intelligence that normally requires someone manually visiting a dozen pages every week — and people never actually do it consistently. The agent does it daily without fail. A competitor raising prices is your opening to win deals on value; a competitor hiring in a new department tells you where they're expanding months before they announce it; a changelog update warns you what they're about to market against you. You find out the same day, not when a customer mentions it. Each change also comes with a one-line read on what it might signal strategically. The agent holds the previous version of every page in memory, which is the whole point — change detection is impossible without remembering what "before" looked like, and that's exactly what a stateless chatbot can't do. ## Skills and Tools - http - memory_read - memory_write - message - routine/cron ## Categories - Research - Business ops - Automation ## Links - [HTML page](https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/competitor-page-watcher-get-alerted-the-day-a-competitor-changes-their-pricing-jobs-or-product)