Skip to main content

Competitor Pricing Tracker

Automated monitoring of competitor pricing changes with historical tracking and alerting

Complexity: Moderate | Duration: 15-30m | Category: Research/Intelligence

Tags: pricing-tracker competitive-intelligence automation web-scraping monitoring

Workflow Diagram​

Steps​

Step 1: Competitor setup​

Agent: competitive

market-analyst - Define competitors and pricing pages to monitor

Step 2: Scraper development​

Agent: data

engineering - Build web scrapers for pricing page extraction

Step 3: Price extraction​

Agent: data

engineering - Implement price parsing with currency normalization

Step 4: Change detection​

Agent: data

engineering - Compare current vs previous pricing, detect changes

Step 5: Historical storage​

Agent: backend

architect - Store pricing history in time-series database

Step 6: Alert configuration​

Agent: devops

engineer - Configure alerts for price changes exceeding threshold

Step 7: Reporting​

Agent: frontend

developer - Create pricing change dashboard with trend analysis

Step 8: Validation​

Agent: QA

automation - Validate scraper accuracy against manual checks

Usage​

To execute this workflow:

/workflow research/intelligence/competitor-pricing-tracker.workflow

See other workflows in this category for related automation patterns.