ConfiguredMonitoring

Competitive Price & Assortment Intelligence

Know when competitor prices, availability, sellers, variants, or product ranges change across approved public retail and marketplace pages.

No access or payment before scope confirmation

Your input

Tell us what to run. We handle the operating structure.

You do not need to prepare technical configuration. Provide the business requirements, examples, and approved access; we translate them into fields, rules, and a tested schedule.

What you provide

Approved product, category, listing, seller, review, or search URLs and terms
Customer SKU, product master, brand, model, and identifier fields
Approved competitor, retailer, marketplace, and market list
Required price, currency, stock, shipping, variant, seller, rating, or review fields
Product-matching rules and acceptable confidence
Currency-conversion, tax, shipping, unit-price, pack-size, and landed-cost assumptions when needed
Monitoring frequency, change thresholds, and delivery destination
Expected products, pages, reviews, sellers, and returned records per run

How you provide it

Setup form
Spreadsheet watchlist or product master
Existing pricing, assortment, procurement, or category file
Approved public product, category, seller, or review URLs
Search terms and market configuration
Example report, dashboard, warehouse, or pricing-system schema
Written matching, normalization, alert, rights, and retention rules

The result

What this workflow delivers.

A source-backed commercial change register that helps pricing, merchandising, procurement, category, and market teams investigate price gaps, stock movements, new products, and seller changes before acting.

Best for: Pricing, revenue-management, merchandising, category, procurement, e-commerce, brand, product, marketplace, retail-operations, and competitive-intelligence teams with an approved product or category watchlist.

Sources

Approved public product-detail URLs
Approved public category or listing URLs
Approved product search terms and markets
Approved public seller pages when included
Approved public review pages when included
Approved public retail, marketplace, local-shop, or delivery listings
Customer product master, SKU list, or matching reference

Output fields

Source URL, retailer or marketplace, market, currency, and collection timestamp
Observed product name, description, brand, category, image URL, and product URL
Published SKU, MPN, GTIN, EAN, UPC, ISBN, or other source identifier when available
Observed price, currency, list price, discount, shipping, and seller offer when publicly shown
Observed availability or stock state
Published variants and option labels
Seller name, seller URL, and observed seller count when included
Published rating, review count, and approved review fields when included
Customer match key, match confidence, and review status
Raw source values kept separate from normalized price, currency, shipping, and comparison fields
Explicit missing, unavailable, unmatched, changed-layout, or duplicate state

Delivery options

Google Sheets
Excel
CSV
JSON
Competitive price review table
Email or Slack-compatible change digest
Dashboard-ready table
Data warehouse, database, or pricing-system delivery
Airtable base or table
Scoped API endpoint

Operating scope

Quoted by sites, markets, pages, products, sellers, reviews, returned records, and frequency
Hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly
Public sources

AI-ready delivery

Structured data your team and agents can rely on.

Receive normalized records directly or let an approved agent retrieve them through a scoped interface. Source evidence, transformations, timestamps, and exception states remain available for review.

Explore managed services for outreach and follow-up

Use it directly

CSV and JSON exports
Airtable or spreadsheet delivery
Database and warehouse-ready records
Customer-controlled backups

Connect approved agents

Scoped API or webhook access
Filter and retrieve defined records
Summarize, compare, classify, and cite
Route exceptions to a human owner

Keep control

Customer-owned resulting dataset
Raw and normalized values remain distinct
Model, API, hosting, and storage costs are scoped
No autonomous consequential authority

Configurable service

One workflow, configured around the decisions your team owns.

The modules describe business capabilities, not separate tools to operate. Select the coverage, filters, review rules, schedule, and destination during setup.

Available modules

Product price monitoring - revisit approved product pages and append observed commercial changes
Category and assortment monitoring - detect products appearing, disappearing, or changing in approved listings
Cross-retailer product matching - connect source listings to customer SKUs using identifiers and reviewable matching rules
Stock and availability monitoring - track public availability states across approved sources and markets
Seller and offer comparison - structure public seller, price, shipping, and offer fields when included
Variant and pack comparison - separate color, size, condition, pack, subscription, and other material listing differences
Review signal collection - collect approved public rating, review-count, and review records without treating them as verified sentiment
Change and exception digest - route price movements, stock changes, new products, unmatched listings, and changed layouts for review

Business questions supported

Which matched competitor products changed price since the previous comparable run?
Where are approved products available, unavailable, discounted, or newly listed?
Which sellers, shipping offers, variants, or pack sizes changed?
Which approved retailers or markets added or removed products from the monitored assortment?
Are observed price gaps still valid after currency, shipping, tax, unit, condition, and variant assumptions?
Which products remain unmatched or have low-confidence matches?
Which changes require pricing, procurement, merchandising, category, legal, or brand review?
What raw value, source URL, market, and collection time support each comparison?

Worked example

See what goes in and what comes back.

Examples show the delivery structure before setup. Names and values are illustrative, not client records or performance claims.

Example input

{
  "product_watchlist": [
    {
      "customer_sku": "SYN-HEADPHONE-01",
      "brand": "Example Audio",
      "model": "X100",
      "urls": [
        "https://retailer.example/products/x100",
        "https://marketplace.example/item/x100"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "category_urls": [],
  "markets": [
    "US"
  ],
  "fields": [
    "price",
    "currency",
    "availability",
    "shipping",
    "seller",
    "variants",
    "rating",
    "review_count"
  ],
  "normalization": {
    "compare_same_variant_only": true,
    "include_shipping": true,
    "currency": "USD"
  },
  "frequency": "Daily",
  "expected_records_per_run": 20,
  "delivery": "Competitive price review table"
}

Example delivery

Illustrative record

{
  "customer_sku": "SYN-HEADPHONE-01",
  "match_status": "matched_reviewed",
  "source": "retailer.example",
  "source_url": "https://retailer.example/products/x100",
  "market": "US",
  "product_name_raw": "Example Audio X100 Wireless Headphones",
  "variant_raw": "Black",
  "price_raw": "$279.00",
  "currency_raw": "USD",
  "shipping_raw": "Free",
  "normalized_comparable_price": 279,
  "previous_comparable_price": 299,
  "price_change_percent": -6.69,
  "availability_raw": "In stock",
  "seller_raw": "Example Retailer",
  "collected_at": "2026-08-19T09:00:00Z",
  "review_state": "price_drop",
  "example_status": "synthetic"
}

Installation path

From source approval to scheduled operation.

The first representative run is reviewed before the workflow becomes a recurring operation.

Define the business decisions, approved sites, products, categories, markets, fields, and monitoring thresholds

Run a representative sample across each selected site or input type

Review source coverage, product matching, variant handling, currency, shipping, tax, missing fields, duplicates, and exceptions

Confirm normalized measures, alert rules, record volume, schedule, and destination

Launch the agreed monitoring cycle

Review price, stock, seller, assortment, source-layout, and cost-driving volume changes

Managed history

Each run adds to a useful operating history.

Each run can append timestamped observations instead of replacing prior values. Price, currency, shipping, stock, seller, variant, assortment, rating, review-count, match, availability, and exception states can be compared by product, source, market, and time.

Retention and portability

Retention is agreed during setup. Structured observations can be exported to CSV, JSON, spreadsheets, a database, warehouse, or another customer-controlled destination. Product images, page captures, review text, seller records, and long-term archives require explicit purpose, rights, storage, and retention terms. Deletion and portability requirements are scoped explicitly. The resulting dataset belongs to the customer. Aineed Data retains only the managed copy and history agreed for operation. CSV, JSON, Airtable, database, warehouse, scoped API, customer-controlled backup, deletion, portability, and exit-export requirements are defined during setup.

What the accumulated history can support

Detect competitor price and promotion movements
Compare observed availability and stock changes
Identify new, removed, or changed products and variants
Review marketplace seller and offer changes
Compare assortment breadth across approved retailers or markets
Build a timestamped price and availability history
Find unmatched products and improve product-master quality
Prioritize pricing, procurement, merchandising, category, and market investigation
Let an approved AI agent retrieve records using defined fields, filters, and source identifiers
Generate source-linked summaries, comparisons, classifications, or briefs from the structured dataset
Route missing, conflicting, low-confidence, or action-required records to a named human reviewer
Trigger approved downstream tasks through an API or webhook without granting autonomous consequential authority

Interpretation limits

History makes comparison possible, but it does not remove source limitations or turn signals into guaranteed business outcomes.

Results are timestamped public observations, not a complete, real-time, or official retailer feed

Prices, availability, sellers, shipping, tax, promotions, ratings, and reviews can vary by location, account state, fulfilment method, currency, device, experiment, and collection time

Product names and images alone may not establish that two listings are the same item

Pack size, variant, seller, condition, subscription, coupon, member price, tax, and shipping differences can make direct price comparison misleading

Currency conversion, unit price, landed cost, and comparison fields depend on documented assumptions

Historical data begins when scheduled collection starts; the workflow does not create prior observations

Some sites, pages, fields, or layouts may be unavailable, incomplete, unstable, or unsupported

Ratings and reviews do not prove product quality, demand, authenticity, or customer sentiment

Scaling price depends on sites, markets, pages, products, sellers, reviews, returned records, frequency, storage, and review requirements

010

Customers remain responsible for lawful purpose, source terms, intellectual property, pricing decisions, marketplace rules, and downstream use

Safeguards

Automation stays inside agreed boundaries.

Access, retention, exports, and operating controls are confirmed for this workflow before launch.

Publicly accessible product, category, seller, and review information only

No attempt to access authenticated, private, account-restricted, or prohibited content

Source URL, market, currency, and collection timestamp retained

Raw published values remain separate from normalized prices, converted currencies, landed-cost assumptions, and calculated differences

No autonomous price changes, purchasing, seller enforcement, outreach, or commercial commitments

Product matching and material commercial changes retain review states

Review authors and text are included only when required for the approved purpose and retention policy

No representation of retailer, marketplace, brand, or platform affiliation, endorsement, official feed status, or complete coverage

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Competitive Price & Assortment Intelligence

Tell us what to run. We handle the operating structure.

What you provide

How you provide it

What this workflow delivers.

Sources

Output fields

Delivery options

Operating scope

Structured data your team and agents can rely on.

Use it directly

Connect approved agents

Keep control

One workflow, configured around the decisions your team owns.

Available modules

Business questions supported

See what goes in and what comes back.

From source approval to scheduled operation.

Each run adds to a useful operating history.

What the accumulated history can support

Automation stays inside agreed boundaries.

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