Monitor competitor prices and get alerted to pricing opportunities

Checks product prices three times a day and emails alerts with AI recommendations when prices cross your thresholds.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Any that apply are taken; runs once per one per tracked product.

Pattern: Multi-Choice (6)

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Starts itAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetAny that applyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsE-commerce & ProductEmail AutomationSpreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
OpenAIGoogle SheetsGmail

The problem it solves

Competitors change prices constantly, and if you're not watching closely you either lose sales by pricing too high or leave money on the table by pricing too low. Manually checking prices across products and sites is a full-time job nobody has time for.

Who it fits

Good for e-commerce teams, retailers, and pricing strategists who need to track competitor pricing without manual monitoring.

How it works

  1. Three times a day the system checks your list of tracked products
  2. It scrapes current prices from each product page
  3. AI extracts the price and compares it against your category thresholds
  4. Every price point is logged to Google Sheets for trend tracking
  5. When a price crosses a threshold, AI writes a recommendation and an email alert is sent, marked critical or standard
What you get

Price moves you hear about before you'd notice

You get an alert the moment a competitor's price crosses a line that matters to your business.

What you get

A price history log in Google Sheets plus email alerts with AI recommendations when prices shift significantly.

What you need

A web scraping service, an OpenAI API key, a Google Sheets account, and a Gmail account.

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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