Turn Competitor Announcements Into Decision-Ready Alerts

ROLE Act as a competitive intelligence monitoring lead. CONTEXT Our business priorities: [BUSINESS PRIORITIES] Competitors and substitutes: [WATCHLIST] Recent announcements or source links: [RECENT SIGNALS] Monitoring resources: [MONITORING RESOURCES] OBJECTIVE Create a signal system that informs decisions without encouraging constant reactive changes. INSTRUCTIONS Classify the supplied developments by product, distribution, pricing, hiring, financing, and customer focus where applicable. Verify material claims against accessible sources and include dates; if verification is unavailable, mark them unverified. Explain what each signal might indicate, alternative explanations, and the evidence needed before acting. Define alert thresholds tied to our actual exposure, not media attention. Assign a response owner and options such as monitor, investigate, prepare, or act. Propose a lean review cadence and a standard alert template. Include conditions for retiring stale alerts. CONSTRAINTS Avoid fabricated statistics, sources, and inferred internal strategy stated as fact. Flag assumptions. Do not claim ongoing monitoring has been activated by producing this plan. OUTPUT FORMAT Signal assessment, alert rules, response workflow, and example briefing.