competitive-intel-watch

name	competitive-intel-watch
argument-hint	[prior snapshot (pasted/attached), and anything specific to watch]
description	Scheduled delta monitoring against a prior competitive snapshot. Use when tracking competitors on a cadence: material shifts only, cited evidence, battle-card update flags, runs unattended.
intent	A competitive intelligence delta monitor: given a previous Competitive Research Snapshot, sweep for material shifts since the last run and report only what changed — a cited changelog plus flags naming which battle card or positioning sections now need updating. Designed to run unattended on a loop or schedule; an empty changelog is a valid, useful result.
type	workflow
theme	market-intelligence
best_for	["Keeping battle cards and positioning current without regenerating research weekly","Running unattended on a schedule and reporting only changes a rep or roadmap owner would act on","Turning competitive research from a one-off deliverable into a standing capability"]
scenarios	["Run this against last quarter's snapshot and tell me what actually changed","Set up a monthly competitor watch that flags when our battle card goes stale"]
estimated_time	10-25 min per run (after the baseline exists)

Competitive Intel Watch

Purpose

Monitor a competitive landscape for material shifts since the last run. Diff the world against the previous snapshot; report only what changed, with evidence; flag which downstream artifacts need updating. This is the skill that turns competitive research from a document into a cadence — the weekly SIGINT sweep and monthly OSINT digest from the fusion cadence live here. A watch reports change, not state: regenerating the same report weekly is theater, and "no material shifts this cycle" is a valid, useful result.

Input

Works best with: the previous Competitive Research Snapshot (pasted or attached) — the baseline this run diffs against — and the competitor list (defaults to those in the snapshot). Also useful: anything specific you're watching for this cycle, and a materiality bar adjustment if the default needs tightening or loosening.

Input supplied inline with the invocation — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it against the question budget; don't re-ask.

Arriving empty-handed? That works too. With no prior snapshot, the skill falls back to baseline mode: it produces a first snapshot using the competitive-research-snapshot structure and stops — the delta value starts on run two.

Example invocation: Competitive intel watch — prior snapshot pasted below; this cycle I'm specifically watching for pricing moves. [snapshot]

Key Concepts

• Governing protocol: honors the autonomous-investigation contract — question budget of 2 (this skill's tightest), search-plan gate, Fact/Inference/Assumption labels, Just Enough Mode, stable schema, 4-option Final Step.
• Discipline mix: SIGINT first (site diffs, pricing pages, job posts — the freshest layer), with OSINT and HUMINT signals monthly and FININT on the quarterly pass — the fusion cadence in intelligence-collection-disciplines is this skill's operating rhythm.
• The materiality bar. Report a change only if a sales rep, pricing owner, or roadmap owner would plausibly act on it: pricing/packaging changes, launches and deprecations, positioning shifts, leadership moves, funding or M&A, major customer wins/losses, credible roadmap signals. Below the bar: cosmetic site changes, routine content marketing, minor releases. a watch that cries wolf gets ignored by cycle three — the bar is what keeps the audience.