Company Commercial Signal Radar

Monitor a company's public homepage, pricing page, and careers page across runs. The Actor stores a persistent baseline and returns structured events with the before/after evidence that caused each event.

Observable event taxonomy

• POSITIONING_CHANGED — title or main heading changed
• CTA_CHANGED — visible commercial calls to action changed
• PRICING_PAGE_CHANGED — visible pricing-related evidence changed
• PRODUCT_PAGE_ADDED / PRODUCT_PAGE_REMOVED — product, platform, solution, or service links changed
• CAREERS_ACTIVITY_CHANGED — visible careers/job links changed

Names are intentionally conservative. A new product link is evidence of a new public page, not proof that revenue, headcount, or market position changed. This Actor does not use an LLM to turn a small text diff into an unsupported business claim.

Quick start

{
  "targets": [{
    "company": "Apify",
    "url": "https://apify.com/",
    "pricingUrl": "https://apify.com/pricing",
    "careersUrl": "https://apify.com/jobs"
  }]
}

The first run only stores a baseline (one baseline row per company, no events). Run the same input again later or schedule it to get change events. Pages behind bot protection or JavaScript-only shells are reported as warnings and are not charged. A failed or incomplete fetch produces a warning and never replaces the last good baseline.

Baseline row example

{ "rowType": "baseline", "company": "Apify", "pagesCaptured": 3, "snapshot": [{
  "url": "https://apify.com/pricing", "title": "...", "h1": "...",
  "topCtas": ["Get started"], "pricingSentences": ["..."], "pricePoints": ["$39/month"],
  "productLinkCount": 12, "topProductLinks": ["..."],
  "openRolesCount": 8, "sampleJobTitles": ["..."] }] }

Security and source policy

Only public HTTP(S) pages on standard ports are accepted. URLs containing credentials and addresses resolving to loopback, private, link-local, or reserved networks are rejected; redirects are checked again. Responses have time and size limits. The Actor does not sign in, solve CAPTCHAs, use private sources, inspect secrets, profile people, or automate outreach.

Pricing

The intended pricing is pay per successfully checked company, with platform usage included. Baselines, events, warnings, and summaries are included. Exact current pricing is shown on the Store page, and the Actor stops at the user's maximum run charge.

Limitations

Client-rendered content may not appear because this Actor deliberately avoids an expensive browser. Text extraction is deterministic and may miss visually rendered or API-loaded content. Changed navigation can create link events without a product launch. Pricing evidence changes are not interpreted as a specific price increase or decrease unless the visible evidence itself makes that comparison possible. Always open the linked page before acting.

FAQ

How do I monitor a competitor's website for changes? Add the company's homepage (and pricing and careers pages if you know them) and schedule the run. The first run saves a baseline; later runs return events such as pricing, positioning, CTA, product-page and hiring changes with before/after evidence.

How much does it cost? $0.02 per company checked plus $0.01 per run. Bot-walled pages are not charged or saved as a baseline.

Is it legal? It reads publicly available pages only, with no login. You are responsible for respecting each site's terms and the privacy rules that apply to your use of the data.

Can I run it through the API or on a schedule? Yes. Save your input as a task, schedule it in Apify Console, or call it from the Apify API. Results export as JSON, CSV or Excel and connect to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or a webhook.

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