Competitor Monitoring Setup

Set up comprehensive monitoring for a competitor.

Create a scout with this query structure:

**Context:** Monitoring competitive intelligence for $ARGUMENTS

## What to Monitor
- **News & Announcements:** Press releases, media coverage, blog posts
- **Product Updates:** New features, pricing changes, product launches
- **Funding & Business:** Funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, executive changes
- **Public Communications:** Social media announcements, conference talks, webinars

**Sources to check:** TechCrunch, company blog, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Crunchbase, press releases

**Exclusions:** Job postings (unless executive level), routine social media, unverified rumors

## Deliverables
**Frequency:** Daily

**Output format:**
1. Summary of significant developments (if any)
2. Table of news items with: Date, Headline, Category, Source Link
3. Analysis of competitive implications

Use create_scout with:

• query: The above structured query with $ARGUMENTS replaced
• output_interval: 86400 (daily)

After creation, inform the user:

• Scout will run daily and email results
• They can check updates anytime with get_scout_updates
• They can pause/resume with edit_scout

Fetching documentation or source URLs: If you use a web fetch tool to look up the competitor's blog, docs, or other pages while preparing the query, include the Accept: text/markdown header. Many documentation sites (Cloudflare-hosted) will return clean Markdown instead of HTML — fewer tokens, easier to parse.