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AI Competitor Product Intelligence
Tracks named competitor stores for price changes, catalog moves and promotions, and briefs you before you're the last to know.
Competitors change prices, launch products and start promotions without telling you. By the time a customer mentions it, you have already lost sales. This service watches up to 25 named competitor stores on your schedule, records price changes, new listings, restocks and promotions, and sends a clear brief with the source page cited for every change. Big moves trigger same-day alerts.
- Price cuts, restocks and promotions spotted the day they happen
- Every change cited to the competitor page it came from
- A regular brief your team can read in minutes
$2,500
20–30 working days
Optional maintenance $249/mo
What it is
AI Competitor Product Intelligence watches up to 25 named competitor stores, tracking price changes, new listings, restocks and promotions, and delivers a recurring brief plus change alerts on the schedule you set. Every finding is sourced, so your team can verify it rather than take a summary on faith.
Why businesses buy it
Checking competitor sites by hand is tedious, inconsistent and usually the first job dropped in a busy week. Meanwhile a rival's sale or restock can quietly pull customers away. This service keeps watch on public pages for you and reports only what changed, with sources, so your team can respond with facts instead of rumor. It never needs logins to competitor stores. The scope is written before you buy, covering which stores, which changes, how often and where the brief lands.
Problems this solves
Competitor price drops and promotions are found out too late
The service watches up to 25 named competitor stores for price changes, new listings, restocks and promotions. Change alerts and a recurring brief keep your team informed on your schedule.
Someone spends hours each week clicking through competitor sites
Tracking runs automatically, and findings arrive by email, Slack or Notion. That time can go into deciding what to do rather than collecting the facts.
Summaries of competitor moves are hard to trust without sources
Every finding is sourced, so your team can check it rather than take a summary on faith. The brief was refined with you across two trial cycles.
A good fit if
You have a defined list of competitor stores you check manually today, and want their pricing and catalog checked for you on a schedule instead.
You care about specific store-level moves, such as price cuts, new product listings, restocks or promotional codes going live.
You want to know about a competitor's move the day it happens, not weeks later when a customer mentions it.
You already use email, Slack or Notion and want competitor alerts landing where your team already looks.
Not the right fit if
You want broader market and search-demand research for new products, not named competitor stores specifically. See AI Product Research.
You want your own store's sales and margin performance analyzed, not a competitor's. See AI Ecommerce Analytics.
You want the findings turned into pricing or promotion decisions applied to your own store automatically. See AI Ecommerce Growth System, which connects research to action.
You need more than 25 tracked competitor stores or more than two connected systems. Add a note at checkout for a Change Quote, or start from our Custom AI inquiry form.
How it works
- You name the competitor stores. Up to 25 competitor sites go in, along with the specific moves you care about, such as price changes, new listings, restocks or promotions.
- Their public store pages are checked on a schedule. Product pages, collection pages and promotional banners are read on the daily or weekly cadence you set, watching for the changes you defined.
- Findings are written up as a brief. Every price change, new listing or promotion is summarized in plain language with the source page cited, so your team can verify it.
- Change alerts fire the day something moves. A price cut, a restock or a new promotion triggers a notification before the next scheduled brief is even due.
- Two trial cycles are reviewed with you before launch. You see the brief format and confirm the competitor list and change types are tuned correctly before it goes live.
- The brief and alerts land in your delivery channel. Email, Slack or Notion, on the schedule you chose, with the same structure every time so nothing gets missed.
What you provide within 72 hours
Your portal lists these the moment you order. Delivery starts the working day after everything is in and your access is checked.
- The named competitor stores or product pages you want tracked, to build the first watch list.
- The kinds of change that matter to you, such as pricing, new listings, restocks or promotions.
- Access to the delivery channel where alerts and the brief should land, such as email, Slack or Notion.
- Any systems you want connected as additional data sources for the monitoring workflow.
- Admin access and API keys for every connected system, shared by adding our team as a user or creating a key you control, never by email.
- Your business information (company basics, hours and brand voice), shared during intake.
- One decision-maker who can sign off on the competitor list and the brief format.
- An API key for your own AI model account (for example OpenAI or Google Gemini), created for this build with a spending limit.
The 72-hour rule. Send everything on your checklist, including access, within 72 hours of ordering so your build starts on time.
Timeline
Start
Intake verified and the competitor stores to watch are agreed.
Weeks 1–2
Workflow, prompt and guardrail configuration built around your tracked stores.
Week 3
Connection to your delivery channel and data sources configured and tested.
Weeks 3–4
Two trial brief cycles generated and reviewed with you.
Week 4
Your review and two rounds of changes to the watch list and alert rules.
Go-live
Live, recorded handoff session, 30 days of support starts.
| Option | Delivery time | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 20–30 working days | $2,500 |
| Express | 15–25 working days | $2,950 |
| Rush | 10–20 working days | $3,400 |
What you receive at handover
- AI Competitor Product Intelligence configured in your environment
- Tracking of up to 25 named competitor stores, with connections to up to two systems
- A daily or weekly sourced brief plus change alerts (market information; pricing decisions stay with you)
- A test report from two trial cycles reviewed with you
- An admin guide, a recorded 45-minute handoff and 30 days of post-launch support
Expected benefits and how to measure them
- Can help you respond to competitor moves sooner
- Frees up time spent checking rival stores by hand
- Gives decisions a sourced record you can verify
- Time from competitor change to your response
- Log when an alert arrived and when your team acted, reviewed monthly.
- Hours spent on competitor checks
- Ask staff to log time for a month before launch and a month after.
- Margin on products facing direct competition
- Compare it in your store or accounting reports quarter by quarter.
Before you start: List the competitors you watch, how often, and who does it. Estimate weekly hours spent.
These are things to track, not promised results. Outcomes depend on your data, your team and your market.
Running costs
The build price is one-time. Running the monitoring costs roughly $20 to $120 a month, covering AI usage plus web data or search API calls, billed directly in your own accounts. Watching closer to the full 25 competitor stores on a daily cadence sits nearer the top of that range.
AI usage during the build and testing is also billed to your accounts, so every provider relationship stays yours. Nothing runs through us.
Ask about running costsCustom requirements
If you need something outside the Scope Card, add a note at checkout. You get a written Change Quote, and that work only starts once you accept it. Your original order keeps its delivery date either way. Larger or bespoke projects go through the Custom AI request form instead.
Request a custom versionKeep it running
Monthly maintenance covers monitoring, fixes, model and platform updates, a monthly health report and monthly hours for changes such as swapping a tracked store, adding a new change type or adjusting alert rules. It starts after the 30 days of included support and can be cancelled any month.
$249/mo (the minimum fee, includes 2 change hours)
Optional. Starts after the post-launch support period. Cancel any month.
How maintenance worksHow this compares
| Do it yourself with a SaaS tool | Hire a custom agency | Upmark Labs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | A price-tracking tool charges a monthly fee per competitor tracked | A research agency quotes a one-off competitive audit | Ours is one fixed price, shown before you buy |
| Coverage | A price-tracking tool covers whatever its crawler reaches | An agency covers what was scoped in the original brief | Ours tracks the exact competitor stores you name, up to 25 |
| Timeliness | A price-tracking tool updates on its own schedule, easy to miss | An agency report is a snapshot from the day it was written | Ours alerts you the day a tracked competitor changes something |
| Sourcing | A price-tracking tool often shows a number with no clear source page | An agency cites sources in its final report | Ours cites the exact page behind every change in every alert |
Questions about this product
What is included in the AI Competitor Product Intelligence build?
Monitoring of up to 25 named competitor stores, up to two connected systems, a recurring brief with same-day change alerts, two trial cycles reviewed with you, two rounds of changes and a recorded handoff session. The price is fixed and shown on this page before you order, and it is agreed in writing before monitoring starts.
What does AI Competitor Product Intelligence cost to run each month?
Roughly $20 to $120, covering AI usage plus web data or search API calls, paid directly in your own accounts rather than billed through us. Watching closer to the full 25 competitor stores on a daily cadence, rather than weekly, pushes the figure toward the top of that range.
How soon do I get my first competitor brief?
Delivery follows a fixed schedule shown before you buy, which includes two trial brief cycles run and reviewed with you before the workflow goes live. Express and rush delivery are available for an added fee at checkout if you need monitoring running sooner, for example before a competitor's expected sale season.
Does this need any login access to competitor stores?
No. Everything is read from public store pages, such as product listings, collection pages and promotional banners, so there is nothing to log into on a competitor's site. Any of your own systems you connect, such as a delivery channel, use credentials shared by adding our team as a user or creating a key you control, never email.
Can I add or swap a tracked competitor later?
Yes, through monthly maintenance. Swapping a tracked store, adding a new change type, or adjusting the alert rules all fit inside the monthly change hours, and take effect from the next scheduled check after the change. Growing past 25 stores needs a Change Quote.
Can maintenance be cancelled at any time?
Yes. Every plan runs month to month with no fixed contract, and you can cancel in any billing month. Monitoring keeps running on the existing watch list either way; the plan only pays for the hours spent adjusting that list or the change rules, and unused hours don't carry over.
Does this tell us how to respond to a competitor's move?
It reports the change clearly with its source page, and it does not write a pricing or promotion strategy for you. Pair it with AI Ecommerce Analytics to check the impact on your own numbers, or with our Expert Consultation for strategy time to plan the response with someone who knows ecommerce.
Guides on this topic
All guides Stop finding out about a competitor's move too late.
Order AI Competitor Product Intelligence and sourced price, listing and promotion alerts on named competitor stores start arriving on a fixed delivery date.
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