As a cybersecurity analyst and a weekend dev, I'm obsessed with automation. I love finding tedious, manual tasks and building tools to make them disappear. Recently, I've been focused on one of the most time-consuming challenges for any business: understanding the competitive landscape.
We've all been there spending hours, or even days, digging through search results, company websites, and news articles just to get a clear picture of who the key players are in a specific market. It's crucial work, but it's repetitive and slow.
So, I asked myself: What if I could build an AI agent to do this for me?
What I've Built So Far: The MVP
I've spent the few hours building the first version of this idea, and I'm excited to share a first look.
The concept is simple. You provide a simple brief: a description of your business, your target market, and the type of competitors you're interested in.
From there, the AI agent takes over. It autonomously:
- Discovers potential competitors through targeted web searches.
- Filters the noise to identify the most relevant companies.
- Analyzes each competitor's website to gather key intelligence.
- Synthesizes the findings into a clean, actionable report.
The goal is to deliver a professional landscape analysis in minutes, not days. Here’s a sample of the final report it generates:
A sample of the final Competitive Landscape Analysis report.
The Road Ahead
This MVP is just the first step. It proves that the core concept works. My vision is to build this into a tool that empowers founders, marketers, and product managers with deep, on-demand competitive insights. I'm thinking about how to make the analysis even richer and how to track competitors over time.
Why I'm Sharing This Now
I'm at the very beginning of this journey and I've decided to build it in public.
Right now, I'm not selling anything. My goal is to share my progress, the technical challenges, and the lessons I learn along the way. More importantly, I want to connect with people who find this idea interesting.
If you're a founder, a marketer, or just someone who is passionate about automation and AI, I'd love to hear from you. What would you want to see in a tool like this? What are your biggest pains when it comes to competitor analysis?
This is just the start, and I'm excited to see where it goes.