Get alerted when new agencies appear in your target market

Each week the system scans a market directory for new competitors or partners and pings you in Slack.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsMessaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
BrowserActGoogle SheetsSlack

The problem it solves

New agencies and service providers enter your market all the time, and if you're not watching closely, a competitor reaches them first. Manually rechecking a directory every week just to spot who's new isn't a realistic use of anyone's time.

Who it fits

Sales development reps, partnership managers, and lead generation teams tracking new entrants in a market.

How it works

  1. Runs automatically once a week
  2. The system scans a chosen market directory category for the current list of companies
  3. AI cleans up the scraped data and standardizes fields like pricing and location
  4. The current list is compared against last week's list to spot new companies
  5. New entrants are posted as an alert in Slack
What you get

New competitors spotted before anyone mentions them

Get a weekly alert in Slack whenever a new competitor or partner shows up in your target market.

What you get

A Slack alert listing new companies that entered your target market this week.

What you need

A web scraping service, an AI model API key, a Google Sheets account, and a Slack workspace.

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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