competitor-news-monitor

Define a watchlist of companies with event categories and a materiality threshold, then create a cronjob that runs the tick procedure on a recurring schedule. Each run collects news since the last cutoff, deduplicates events, and delivers a digest only when material developments occur.

Build source coverage per company from official newsrooms, changelogs, pricing pages, regulatory filings, and trade press, then record the watch contract in a state file. The digest reports each event with evidence links, what changed, why it matters, and a confidence level.

Coverage includes official newsrooms and blogs, changelogs, pricing and product pages, regulatory filings, investor relations, status and security pages, reputable trade and financial press, and job postings as weak supporting evidence. Optional feed tools like rss-feeds or blogwatcher can supplement collection.

It deduplicates by underlying event, collapsing syndicated stories, rewrites, URL variants, and revised filings into a single event. Independently sourced corroboration stays attached, so one announcement appears exactly once regardless of article count.

Avoid it for one-off company research, where direct web search and extraction are faster, and for plain feed reading, which blogwatcher handles. It is designed for ongoing, threshold-based monitoring of a fixed company set, not ad-hoc lookups.

A source failure is recorded as unknown coverage, never treated as no news. The cutoff advances only for successfully covered sources, and failures are reported as coverage gaps in the state file so nothing is silently lost.