Scout — Track Your Competitors So You Don't Have To

You check a competitor's pricing page every few weeks. Sometimes you catch a change. Usually you don't. Meanwhile they've dropped a free tier, raised prices 30%, and posted three ML engineering roles — and you found out from a tweet six weeks later.

Scout fixes this. Add a URL — a pricing page, careers board, product page, landing page — and Scout monitors it daily. It fetches, filters noise (timestamps, cookie banners, CDN hashes), diffs against the last snapshot, scores each change by strategic impact, and only pings you when something actually matters. Pricing changes score highest. New job postings reveal roadmap before announcements. Copy rewrites signal positioning shifts. Everything below your threshold stays logged but silent.

Monday mornings you get a weekly intel brief: top signals, activity summary, quiet competitors worth watching, and a one-paragraph strategic synthesis. The rest of the week, Scout runs dark. No message means no changes.

What you get:

• Daily competitor monitoring — Scout fetches tracked URLs every morning and diffs against stored snapshots
• Smart noise filtering — timestamps, cookie banners, analytics IDs, CDN hashes, and whitespace are stripped before comparison
• Change scoring (1–10) — pricing changes (10), page removals (9), new pages (8), job postings (7), feature adds (7), copy changes (5)
• Adjustable sensitivity — set threshold per target: low for major moves only, high to catch everything
• Monday weekly intel brief — top signals, full activity table, quiet competitors, strategic synthesis
• Color-coded alerts — 🔴 pricing · 🔵 jobs · 🟢 features · 🟡 positioning · ⚫ removals
• Change history — every detected change is logged with diffs, so you can review trends over time

Setup in 2-3 minutes:

1. Install: openclaw agents add scout
2. Copy workspace files: cp -r workspace/* ~/.openclaw/agents/scout/workspace/
3. Open your chat and send /new
4. Answer 6 quick questions: name, timezone, channel, alert time, sensitivity, first target
5. First scan runs within the hour. First digest arrives tomorrow morning.

This is for you if:

• You're an indie hacker tracking 2-5 competitors and tired of manual checking
• You're a PM who needs to know when a rival ships new features or changes pricing
• You're a freelance consultant monitoring competitors on behalf of clients
• You're a founder preparing to launch and want real-time intel on the landscape

Scout doesn't chat. Scout reports. And when there's nothing to report, Scout says nothing. Silence is signal too.