How to get a weekly competitor-monitoring brief from Claude

Research & monitoringClaude

The problem

Checking competitors' sites for pricing changes, launches and hiring signals is a weekly chore that usually gets skipped.

Tools needed

• Claude (scheduled task)
• Web access
• Your competitor list

Step-by-step recipe

1. Write down the competitors you want to track.
2. Schedule Claude to run every Monday morning (8 AM in the source).
3. Have it check each site for pricing changes, new products or features, new content, announcements and job listings.
4. Ask it to summarise what changed across all competitors.
5. Have it highlight the single most important item of the week.

Copyable prompt

Every Monday: for each company in [COMPETITOR LIST], check their website, pricing page, blog or changelog, newsroom and careers page.
Report only what changed in the last 7 days: pricing, new products or features, notable content, announcements, and new job openings that hint at strategy (say what they might signal).
Include a link for every item. If nothing changed, say "no changes found".
End with "Most important this week:" one item and why it matters to [MY COMPANY].

What the builder reported

The poster gets a Monday brief without manual checking or a dashboard, and uses job listings to infer likely moves (such as a push on distribution). No measured accuracy, savings or examples of misses.

These are the source author's own claims. AgentRecipes has not tested or verified them.

Watch out for

• The only concrete setup detail in the source is the schedule, so test the prompt for a few weeks before relying on it.
• Ask for a link for every claimed change so you can verify it.

Source

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