Competitor Price Monitor

Automatically track competitor prices, product updates, and features, sending alerts and weekly reports to benchmark your market positioning.

Competitor Price Monitor Skill

Track competitor pricing, product changes, and market positioning automatically.

What This Skill Does

1. Track Pricing — Monitor competitor websites for price changes
2. Detect Changes — Alert when competitors add/remove products, change copy, or update pricing
3. Benchmark — Compare your pricing against the market
4. Report — Weekly competitive intelligence summaries

Usage

Add Competitors

Monitor these competitors: [URL1], [URL2], [URL3]
Track their pricing pages and product listings

Get Report

Generate competitive pricing report for this week

Workflow

Step 1: Competitor Discovery

• Input competitor URLs or search by industry/niche
• Identify pricing pages, product listings, and feature pages
• Store baseline snapshots

Step 2: Monitoring

On each check cycle:

1. Fetch current page content via web scraping
2. Compare against stored baseline
3. Detect changes in:
   • Prices (increases, decreases, new tiers)
   • Products (added, removed, renamed)
   • Features (new capabilities, deprecated items)
   • Messaging (positioning, value props, CTAs)

Step 3: Change Detection

// Pseudo-code for price change detection
const changes = [];
for (const competitor of competitors) {
  const current = await scrapePrice(competitor.url);
  const baseline = await getBaseline(competitor.id);
  
  if (current.price !== baseline.price) {
    changes.push({
      competitor: competitor.name,
      product: current.product,
      oldPrice: baseline.price,
      newPrice: current.price,
      change: ((current.price - baseline.price) / baseline.price * 100).toFixed(1) + '%'
    });
  }
}

Step 4: Alerting

When significant changes detected:

• Price decrease >10% → "Competitor [X] dropped [product] price by [Y]%"
• New product launched → "Competitor [X] launched [new product] at $[Z]"
• Feature added → "Competitor [X] now offers [feature]"

Step 5: Weekly Report

## Competitive Intelligence Report — Week of [date]

### Price Changes
| Competitor | Product | Old Price | New Price | Change |
|-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Acme Corp | Pro Plan | $49/mo | $39/mo | -20% |

### New Products/Features
- **Acme Corp** launched "Enterprise Plan" at $199/mo
- **Beta Inc** added AI chatbot feature to all tiers

### Market Positioning
- Average market price for [category]: $X/mo
- Your price: $Y/mo (Z% above/below market)

### Recommendations
- Consider matching Acme's price cut on Pro tier
- Beta's new AI feature is a competitive threat — prioritize similar feature

Configuration

{
  "competitors": [
    { "name": "Competitor A", "url": "https://competitor-a.com/pricing", "check_frequency": "daily" }
  ],
  "alert_channels": ["telegram", "email"],
  "report_frequency": "weekly",
  "report_day": "monday"
}

Requirements

• Brave Search API or web fetch capability
• OpenClaw with scheduled tasks (cron/heartbeat)
• Storage for baseline snapshots