Workflow
Automated Competitor Research
From a product description to a structured competitor matrix in under 10 minutes.
Problem
Manually researching competitors takes hours and produces inconsistent notes that are hard to compare.
Solution
Use an AI agent to discover competitors, scrape their positioning, and output a normalized comparison table.
Steps
- 01Define your product in one sentence and your target customer.
- 02Run the competitor discovery prompt against a web-search-enabled agent.
- 03For each result, extract pricing, positioning, and 3 differentiators.
- 04Normalize fields into a single table.
- 05Generate a one-paragraph strategic summary.
Tools Used
Prompts Used
Variations
- Run weekly as a cron to track competitor changes.
- Filter only to YC-backed companies in the same category.
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