Track Competitor Papers → Generate Market Intelligence Reports

Set up Google Alerts for competitor company names combined with terms like 'research paper', 'publication', 'arxiv', 'conference'. Configure alerts to send daily digests to a dedicated email address.

Create Gmail filters that automatically label incoming alerts by competitor name and forward them to a specific folder. Set up additional filters to catch academic conference announcements and patent filings.

Configure Zapier to monitor the labeled Gmail folder and extract paper URLs, titles, and author information from alert emails. Use Zapier's formatter to clean and structure this data consistently.

Send paper abstracts and metadata to Claude with a prompt focused on competitive analysis. Ask it to identify potential product directions, technical capabilities, and strategic implications for your business.

Use Zapier's Schedule trigger to compile the week's findings every Friday and post a formatted intelligence report to your strategy team's Slack channel with key insights and recommended actions.