Track competitor prices daily and get alerted when they change

Checks your competitors' prices every day and messages you the moment one goes up or down.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per one per competitor product page.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Google SheetsTelegram

The problem it solves

You want to know when a competitor drops or raises a price, but checking their websites by hand every day is tedious and easy to forget. By the time you notice a change, you may have already lost a sale.

Who it fits

A retailer or ecommerce seller who needs to react quickly to competitor pricing.

How it works

  1. Runs automatically once a day
  2. Reads your list of competitor product pages from a spreadsheet
  3. Visits each page and reads the current price
  4. Compares it to the last known price and calculates the change
  5. Sends you a message and logs the update if the price moved
What you get

Competitor price moves you learn about the same day

You get an alert the moment a competitor's price goes up or down, so you can decide how to respond.

What you get

A Telegram alert when a price changes, plus an updated price history in your spreadsheet.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and a Telegram bot.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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