Competitor Intelligence Monitor

Field	Value
Name	`competitor-intel-monitor`
Category	reporting
Complexity	advanced
Tags	competitor-monitoring, web-scraping, change-detection, llm-analysis, multi-source, postgres-state, s3-storage
Author	randybias
Min Version	0.1.0

Description

Track competitor web pages, news mentions, and GitHub activity with AI-powered change analysis and significance scoring. Fetches configured competitor URLs on a schedule, diffs against previous snapshots stored in S3, uses Claude to analyze the significance of changes, and delivers a digest to Slack.

DAG Structure

fetch-sources → diff-snapshots → analyze-changes → store-assessments → notify-digest

Node	Purpose
`fetch-sources`	Fetch configured competitor web pages
`diff-snapshots`	Compare current content against stored snapshots
`analyze-changes`	AI-powered significance analysis of detected changes
`store-assessments`	Persist change assessments to Postgres and S3
`notify-digest`	Deliver change digest to Slack

Triggers

manual
cron — every 6 hours (0 */6 * * *)

Dependencies

Service	Type	Required
Anthropic API	External	Yes
Slack webhook	External	Yes
tentacular-postgres	Exoskeleton	Yes
tentacular-rustfs	Exoskeleton	Yes
Probe targets (competitor URLs)	Dynamic	Yes

Config

Key	Default	Description
`timeout`	`180s`	Per-node timeout
`retries`	`1`	Retry count per node
`competitors`	(example list)	List of competitor names and URLs to monitor

Secrets

anthropic.api_key — Claude API key for change analysis
slack.webhook_url — Slack webhook for digest delivery

Usage

tntc scaffold init competitor-intel-monitor
tntc scaffold init competitor-intel-monitor my-custom-name
tntc scaffold info competitor-intel-monitor

Source

Scaffold source: quickstarts/competitor-intel-monitor/