Bot: watch your competitors' prices

Finding out your competition lowered prices because a customer told you on a call is finding out late. This bot checks their pricing pages and sends you the change with the before and the after the same day. ## By the numbers - It checks every **6 hours**, not every hour: a pricing page does not change four times a day and checking too often trains you to ignore alerts. - **3 to 8 pages** is the useful range. With more than 10 the report turns into noise and you stop opening it. - Ask for a **sensitivity level**, because without that it alerts you on every comma change in the legal text. ## The prompt ``` Set up a new bot that checks every 6 hours. Guide me to connect the channel where I want the alerts (WhatsApp, email or Slack), and then configure it: 1. Watch the pricing pages I give you in a list. 2. When something changes, send me the before and the after of the text that changed, plus ONE line on what it probably means for me. 3. Ignore cosmetic changes: dates, counters, legal text, order of the plans. I only care about price, plans, limits and what is included. Ask me: which pages to watch, where I want the alert, and how sensitive the diff should be (for example, alert only if a number changes). The first week is supervised: you send me everything you detect even if you doubt it, I tell you what was noise, and you adjust the filter with that. ``` ## What to change before using it - **The channel.** The original sends to Slack. If your team lives in WhatsApp, change it: an alert in a channel nobody opens is not an alert. - **The page list.** Start with the 3 competitors that really take customers from you, not the 10 you know. - **The noise filter.** Adjust it the first week, do not leave it as it comes. ## Frequently asked questions **What if the competition hides prices behind a form?** Then this does not apply to that competitor. A bot should not fill in forms or create fake accounts to see prices, and you should not ask it to. **Why do I need to know the same day?** So you do not lose an open negotiation. If a prospect is comparing and the other one just dropped their price, you want to know before the call, not after. **Can it change my prices on its own?** No, and never give it that permission. Watching is read-only; setting prices is a business decision. ## Credit Adapted from [Competitor Pricing Watch](https://botdirectory.ai/bots/competitor-pricing-watch/) by `ericzakariasson`, from the [botdirectory.ai](https://botdirectory.ai) directory (MIT, Copyright 2026 Inbox Zero Inc.). Our version swaps Slack for WhatsApp or email (where a Hispanic agency lives), adds the explicit list of changes to ignore so the alert does not turn into noise, and defines the first week as supervised to calibrate the filter.