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Competitive intelligence tracker

A Show HN project monitors competitors' sites and summarizes meaningful changes for a team.

Agent or tool
Custom agent
Topic
Sales & Marketing
Reported on
Hacker News
Added
2026-10-15

Why it matters

Sales and marketing run on research, lists and follow-ups. Agents are starting to take on that groundwork, freeing people for the conversations that actually close deals. It is one of 63 sightings filed under Sales & Marketing on Agent Sightings (number 31 by interest), and one of 182 involving Custom agent.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into your own agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

Check these competitor pages for changes since last week. Summarize pricing, feature and messaging changes, and ignore cosmetic edits.

Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186464. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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