competitive-intel

name	competitive-intel
description	Monitor competitor pricing, features, changelogs, dashboards, and product changes with Axon. Use for recurring competitive intelligence, pricing tier extraction, feature change tracking, or structured competitor alerts.

Axon Competitive Intel

Use this for monitoring competitors over time. This is not the broad competitor analysis workflow.

Onboarding Interview

Infer competitors, focus, cadence, and output format from context. If competitors are clear, proceed immediately.

Ask at most 1-3 concise questions only if blocked, such as the competitor list, focus area, or whether authenticated pages/profiles are required.

Axon Collection Plan

For each competitor, use Axon surfaces by cadence:

• One-off: axon scrape or axon extract for current pages; use axon diff when a prior URL/version exists.
• Recurring: create a URL watch with axon watch create, verify with axon watch exec, and review history with axon watch history.
• Alerts: treat these as report sections unless a notification path is separately configured.

Collect:

• pricing pages, annual/monthly toggles, expanded feature tables
• feature and product pages
• changelogs, blogs, release notes, docs updates
• authenticated dashboards only when the user has legitimate access, source terms permit collection, and no auth, CAPTCHA, paywall, rate-limit, or terms boundary is bypassed

Parallel Work

If appropriate, use sub-agents or equivalent parallel task runners. A natural split is one competitor per researcher or one focus area per researcher.

Each researcher should return pricing tiers, features, recent changes, source URLs, and confidence notes.

Final Deliverable

# Competitive Intel: [Competitors]

## Alerts
[Notable pricing, feature, or positioning changes]

## Per-Competitor Breakdown
[Pricing tiers, feature inventory, recent changes]

## Cross-Competitor Comparison
[Pricing table, feature matrix, key differentiators]

## Suggested Follow-Ups
[What to monitor next]

## Sources
[URLs visited]

## Rerun Inputs
workflow: competitive-intel
competitors: [list]
focus: [all/pricing/features/changelog]
cadence: [one-off/weekly/monthly]

JSON Shape

When structured output is requested, include generatedAt, baselineDate, observedAt, competitors, pricing, recentChanges, features, changedFields, unchangedFields, confidence, sourceSnapshots, watchId, failedSources, and sources.

Quality Bar

• Extract real plan names, limits, and dates when available.
• Note contact-sales or gated details instead of guessing.
• Preserve sources for diffing future runs.
• Do not bypass auth, CAPTCHA, paywalls, rate limits, or source terms.
• For current Axon capture patterns, see capture-recipes.md.