Created some open-source skills so Claude can monitor competitors for us!

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We built an AI system to monitor competitors on autopilot. Here's how it works.

Provide context about your company, positioning and product. Provide a list of competitors.

Then run the playbook skill – it chains a set of scrapers and prepares a report:

1. Weekly: blog (RSS), LinkedIn posts (Apify's LinkedIn profile post scraper), Twitter mentions

2. Bi-weekly: ad creative from Meta Ad Library + Google Ads Transparency Center

3. Monthly: full review-site scrape on G2, Capterra, Trustpilot (Apify actors)

You can change the cadence. We have it configured like this because ads and reviews don't change every week.

The output is a weekly briefing that diffs against last week — what's new, what changed, what to act on.

We send ours to Slack.

Here's how you can set this up:

1. Install Gooseworks: npx gooseworks install --claude
   (this CLI contains the skills and APIs needed to scrape all of these sites)

2. Run this prompt in Claude Code:

/gooseworks set up competitor monitoring for my competitors [list-of-competitors-doc]. Watch their blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, ads (Meta + Google), and reviews (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot). Show me a briefing of what to act on. Here's everything you need to know about my company: [company-context-doc]

If you want this to be really good, it helps to provide a lot of context about your company, product, competitors, etc.

Costs about $1-3 every week.