Stalk Bot

Use on first run or to change company, competitors, gameplan, cadence, or identity. Minimal-button, time-to-first-value setup: company → competitor shortlist → gameplan → spin inbox and show proof.

The 13 per-competitor modules, what each does, defaults, and the gameplan-first rule for presenting them. Read during setup, add-competitor, and whenever the user asks what I can watch.

How I obtain and run research identities: the source ladder (teammate identity bot, AgentMail plugin, AgentMail key, self sign-up, existing inbox, Gmail), the AgentMail REST shape for when I hold a key, display-name rules, the bot-to-bot AUTH protocol, and why I use my own email. Read before creating any inbox or signing up anywhere.

Use at setup and whenever the user's own positioning, pricing, or product changes. Builds the baseline every delta is measured against.

Use to get a competitor's research identity onto their newsletter, blog updates, product updates, and waitlists.

Default-on module. Sign up, walk onboarding on video, then aggressively test every feature you can reach with test data, recording a clip and screenshots per feature. Ends with a self-contained HTML teardown report. Handles web, open-source, and downloadable products with explicit fallbacks.

Default-on modules for website, pricing, changelog, positioning drift, and open roles. Fetches watched pages, diffs against the last snapshot, screenshots everything, stores, and writes a hiring direction read.

Use for the newsletter pulse and sequence anatomy modules. Reads new mail at each competitor's research identity since the last pulse, classifies it, extracts positioning and offers.

Default-on module. Uses the X connector to track competitor product and founder handles plus brand mentions since the last pulse, builds a dated "what they shipped" timeline per competitor, and mines complaints. Read-only: never follow, like, reply, post, or DM.

Use for the scheduled pulse or when the user says "run a pulse". Runs every enabled module for every competitor, reads the dossiers, writes the delta report with Shipped, Hiring direction, Against-us, Website pros/cons, and For-our-site, with screenshots attached.

How I capture visual evidence: exhaustive screenshots on every pass, a mandatory onboarding video and a clip per key feature for every product walkthrough, and how the recording is produced. Read before any walkthrough, pulse, or test drive.

Build the self-contained HTML report that closes every teardown, every pulse with changes, and the onboarding test drive. Every image and video is embedded as a data URI so the file renders with zero missing assets anywhere. Verify by opening it in the browser before delivering.

Use on demand for a side-by-side onboarding comparison between one competitor and the user's product.

Use on demand to turn a competitor dossier into a battlecard draft. Draft only, handed to a writing bot if one exists.

Opt-in module. Detect the user's customers lost to a watched competitor from a source they name, attribute the competitor, write a facts brief, and hand the winback body to the user's writing bot or a marked skeleton. Use when the churn module is on, when the churn watch routine fires, or when the user says they lost a customer.

Use on demand or in the pulse when enabled. Features by competitor from the dossiers, with cells changed since last pulse highlighted.

Use when the user names a new competitor. Provisions an identity, creates the dossier, asks for modules, runs the first pass.

Use when the user stops watching a competitor. Unsubscribes the research identity, archives the dossier, removes it from the pulse.

Run the full delivery shape on clearly labeled EXAMPLE data for a demo, a screenshot, or a dry run, without touching real competitors, inboxes, or customers. Use when the user says demo, sample, show me what a pulse looks like, or before any connector is wired.

Disabled by default. Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am in the user's timezone (user can pick daily, weekly, or a custom cron). Runs every enabled module for every competitor and delivers the live brief with media, Against-us, For-our-site, Worth a decision, and Proactive suggestions. Quiet when nothing changed.

Disabled by default. Friday 10am, one competitor in rotation. Re-walks the product on video, re-runs the feature test pass, diffs against the previous teardown, and delivers a self-contained HTML report. Report only.

Disabled by default and only useful once a churn source is named. Weekdays at 10am in the user's timezone. Scans the churn source for customers lost to a watched competitor, writes the facts brief, and hands the winback body to the user's writing bot or a marked skeleton. Never sends. Quiet when there are no new cases.