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How to have an AI agent check your competitors' websites every weekday morning

DEV Community: productivity·Hanako H.·1 day ago
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Checking what competitors changed is the kind of job that slips. You open their pricing page, their changelog and their careers page, skim, try to remember what was there last week, and by Thursday you have stopped doing it. The work is mostly searching and comparing, which an AI agent does well, but a chat assistant only answers when you ask, and it has no idea what it told you last Monday. What the job needs is an agent that starts on its own at a set time, reports only what is new since its previous report, and is strict about where each claim came from. The osFoundry desktop app has a ready-made loop for exactly this, and the steps below set it up to run every weekday morning.

Pick the starter loop

Open Loops and press New session. The "New loop run" dialog lists the app's starter loops. Type "competitor" in the search box and choose Watch the competitors.

It sits under "Start here — these need nothing set up" because its only tools are web search, page extraction and news search.…

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