Public Competitive Alternatives Signal Agent

Extract structured evidence from public alternatives, competitors, comparison, and switching pages: subject product hints, vendor hints, alternative brand names, comparison criteria, positioning claims, feature differentiators, pricing mentions, migration/switching evidence, CTA links, risk labels, evidence URLs, and stable change hashes.

This Actor is built for AI agents, market researchers, competitive-intelligence workflows, GTM teams, analyst assistants, and product marketers that need a compact public evidence record from one alternatives page without crawling a full site or copying another product's field packaging.

What It Returns

• Alternatives page title and type: alternatives list, competitor list, comparison page, or switching page.
• Subject product hints and alternative brand hints from visible page evidence.
• Comparison criteria such as pricing, features, support, migration, security, integrations, workflow, and enterprise readiness.
• Positioning claims, feature differentiators, pricing mentions, switching/migration hints, CTAs, outbound alternative links, focus-term matches, evidence snippets, evidence URLs, and a stable alternativesPageHash.
• Risk labels and missing fields when the page lacks subject product, alternative brands, comparison criteria, positioning claims, or CTA evidence.

Pricing Behavior

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing and only charges the useful result event when it finds useful public competitive-alternatives evidence.

Paid event:

• useful-competitive-alternatives-result

It does not charge the useful event for:

• invalid or private-network URLs;
• failed fetches;
• generic product, pricing, partner, hiring, case-study, procurement, or news pages without competitive-alternatives evidence;
• focusTerms misses;
• unchanged records when you pass a previous alternativesPageHash;
• duplicate normalized URLs in the same run.

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Scope And Safety

• Public HTTP/HTTPS HTML or text pages only.
• Private-network hosts, credentials, query strings, fragments, path parameters, and token-like account paths are rejected.
• JavaScript is not executed.
• Forms are not submitted.
• Linked competitor pages, signup pages, demo pages, pricing pages, directories, PDFs, and external assets are recorded only as sanitized links and are not fetched.
• The Actor does not crawl comparison directories, scrape reviews, enrich companies, identify contacts, or make purchase recommendations.
• Output is evidence-based and should be reviewed before competitive intelligence, sales enablement, market research, or product strategy decisions.

Example Input

{
  "comparisonPageUrls": [
    "https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/comparison/jira-vs-asana"
  ],
  "focusTerms": [
    "Asana"
  ],
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20
}

Best Use Cases

• Turn one public alternatives or competitor page into AI-ready competitive evidence.
• Monitor alternatives pages without paying for unchanged results.
• Extract comparison criteria and positioning claims for market research.
• Filter alternatives pages by focus product, brand, use case, or migration keyword.