Competitor Monitoring Agent

aka “Competitor Watchdog” in the catalog

Watches competitor sites, pricing, changelogs, and job boards, and you hear about it only when something changes

Category
Research, Marketing
Scheduled tasks
1daily
Runtime
Hermes
Works with
FirecrawlTavilyCrunchbaseSlack
Hosting
Fully managed, always on
Competitor Monitoring Agent/Schedule
online, a typical week
  • Daily Watchlist CrawlDaily at 05:00
  1. Mon
    • 05:00Daily Watchlist Crawl
  2. Tue
    • 05:00Daily Watchlist Crawl
  3. Wed
    • 05:00Daily Watchlist Crawl
  4. Thu
    • 05:00Daily Watchlist Crawl
  5. Fri
    • 05:00Daily Watchlist Crawl
  6. Sat
    • 05:00Daily Watchlist Crawl
  7. Sun
    • 05:00Daily Watchlist Crawl

Default schedule from the template. Change any time, or run a task on demand.

How the Competitor Monitoring Agent works

Every run reads from the tools you connect, works through its brief, and keeps what it learns in a persistent workspace, so context carries forward instead of starting from scratch.

Reads from
FirecrawlTavilyCrunchbase

Connect the ones you use. It works with what it has.

Competitor Monitoring Agent
  1. Daily Watchlist CrawlDaily at 05:00

Keeps in its workspace

  • Who the owner is: business, timezone, quiet hours, delivery channel
  • Competitors and the pages/surfaces to watch for each
Delivers
  • A report after each run

    Sent to your Slack, Telegram, or another channel you connect.

  • Drafts that wait for you

    Anything that leaves your business is written for your approval, not sent on its own.

  • Answers in chat

    Ask it about its work any time from the agent's chat in your dashboard.

The Competitor Monitoring Agent, on autopilot

Each task runs on its own schedule in a managed environment. Adjust any of them, or add your own.

  1. Task 01Daily at 05:00

    Daily Watchlist Crawl

    Crawl every entry in ~/workspace/WATCHLIST.md (pricing pages, changelogs, blogs, job boards, news, funding feeds per competitor). Diff each against the stored snapshot in ~/state/snapshots/ and update the snapshots…

    About 7 runs a week

What it delivers

Each run ends with a message in your channel. Here is the brief the Competitor Monitoring Agent's first task works from.

# agent-updatesScheduled run

Competitor Monitoring AgentAGENTDaily at 05:00

Daily Watchlist Crawlcompleted

The brief: Crawl every entry in ~/workspace/WATCHLIST.md (pricing pages, changelogs, blogs, job boards, news, funding feeds per competitor). Diff each against the stored snapshot in ~/state/snapshots/ and update the snapshots…

Reply to Competitor Monitoring Agent, or ask it anything

Deploy this template and Qoren provisions a dedicated, managed cloud environment: no Docker, VPS, or server upkeep. Tailor the persona, schedules, and tools, use the managed model key or bring your own, and the agent stays online with activity, usage, and spend in one dashboard.

How deployment worksSee pricing

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Competitor Monitoring Agent template questions

What does the Competitor Monitoring Agent template do?

Watches competitor sites, pricing, changelogs, and job boards, and you hear about it only when something changes It runs 1 scheduled task on a managed cloud environment.

Which runtime does the Competitor Monitoring Agent use?

It runs on the Hermes runtime in a dedicated cloud environment that Qoren provisions and keeps online for you.

How often does the Competitor Monitoring Agent run?

On a schedule you control. Out of the box it runs daily at 05:00. You can change the cadence, or trigger it on demand.

Will the Competitor Monitoring Agent do things without my approval?

No. It drafts and prepares the work, and you stay in control of anything that leaves your business. A reply, an invoice reminder, or a public post is written for your approval, not sent on its own.

What do I need to connect before it works?

Start from the template and connect the tools it needs, then set a model key: use the managed key included with your plan, or bring your own on any plan. The Competitor Monitoring Agent runs on the Hermes runtime.

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