Competitor Pulse — AI Competitor Intelligence Monitor

Watch a competitor holistically — pricing, website/messaging, hiring, tech stack, news, and AI-answer-engine visibility — and get an AI "what changed & why it matters" executive summary. Point it at a previous run and it reports only what changed. Schedule it daily; competitive change is continuous.

Competitive-intelligence platforms (Crayon, Klue) cost $15k–$60k/yr, are sales-gated, and drown you in noise with no "so what". This is the self-serve, API-first, pay-as-you-go version — with a signal none of them own.

🔗 Chain it after your scraper

Already building company lists with Google Maps Scraper (compass/crawler-google-places), Shopify Store Leads Scraper (clearpath/shopify-store-leads) or LinkedIn Company Details Scraper (harvestapi/linkedin-company)? Drop those companies' domains into the watchlist and get an always-on "what changed & why it matters" feed across pricing, hiring, tech and AI-answer visibility. Works with any Maps, Shopify or company scraper's output.

Quick start

1. Fill in the input — set the fields in the input tab (prefilled with a working example).
2. Click Start — the Actor runs and writes one record per item to the dataset.
3. Get your data — export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it via the API.

What it does

Per competitor domain it gathers public signals and diffs them against the baseline:

• Pricing — detects changes on the pricing page
• Website / messaging — flags material homepage rewrites
• Hiring — open roles from the public ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby)
• Tech stack — detected from the site
• News — fresh headlines
• AI-answer visibility (the unique hook) — are competitors overtaking you in ChatGPT/Perplexity answers? Tracks your share of voice vs. the competitors you monitor.

Then OpenAI writes a per-competitor executive summary — what changed, why it matters strategically, and a recommended action.

Input

Field	Type	Description
competitors	array	Competitor domains to monitor. Required.
watch	array	Which signals (empty = all): pricing, website, hiring, tech, news, ai_visibility.
yourBrand	string	Your brand — enables the AI-visibility signal.
yourDomain	string	Your domain — flags cited sources you own.
aiCategory / aiQueries	string / array	Category or explicit buyer prompts for AI-visibility.
baselineDatasetId	string	A previous run's dataset ID → report only what changed.

{
  "competitors": ["linear.app", "asana.com"],
  "yourBrand": "Jira",
  "aiCategory": "project management software",
  "watch": ["pricing", "hiring", "tech", "news", "ai_visibility"]
}

Output

One record per competitor (snapshot + changes[] + executiveSummary), plus AI-visibility records (your share of voice per prompt/engine).

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	When	Price
competitor-monitored	per competitor per run	$0.25
change-detected	per material change found	$0.15
ai-summary-generated	per competitor executive summary	$0.40
ai-visibility-snapshot	per run (share of voice across AI engines)	$0.50

Who it's for

Product marketers, sales enablement, founders and agencies who need to track competitors without a $30k/yr contract.

Notes

• Requires an OpenAI API key (OPENAI_API_KEY).
• Schedule it daily with a baselineDatasetId to get change alerts automatically.

Related actors

• Signal Radar — AI Account Intelligence & ICP Scoring — Turn company domains into ICP-scored, signal-tagged account intelligence from public
• AI Share of Voice — Multi-Engine GEO Tracker — Track your brand's visibility and share of voice across AI answer engines, with
• AI Price & Shelf Intelligence — Repricing, MAP & Assortment — Competitor price monitoring with an AI layer: price-change diffing, AI repricing