# Competitor news alerts: an agent recipe

Searches the news for your competitors and lists funding, launches and leadership changes. Your agent needs another tool for alerts.

## Prompt

Use looot to search the news for these eight competitors and list headlines about funding, launches or leadership changes. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Connect my Supabase and create the table news_items. 3. Upsert on a natural key and never overwrite my edits. 4. Store source, endpoint, cost and fetched_at on every row. 5. Show any price over one cent first and stop at my daily budget. 6. On a re-run, write only what changed. 7. Report rows added, rows changed and total cost.

## Steps and providers

- Search the news: exa, newsdata-io, linkup, brave-search. 1 search per competitor.

## Memory and schedule

The prompt writes rows to your own Supabase.

This recipe needs scheduled runs, not available yet. Run it by hand.

## Can an AI agent get competitor news alerts?

Yes. The agent runs one step through looot: search the news. You give it the prompt on this page and the inputs.

## How do I get competitor news alerts with looot?

Paste the prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoint for each step, checks the price and runs the cheapest one that fits. Edit the names and numbers first.

## How much does it cost to get competitor news alerts?

You pay per call, and the price depends on the provider the agent picks. The web version of this page reads the cheapest price for each step live from the catalog and shows the cost per 1,000 competitors when every step is priced.

## Which providers can get competitor news alerts?

The providers behind this recipe are exa, newsdata-io, linkup, brave-search. The catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it.

## Can I get competitor news alerts on a schedule?

This recipe is a watch and needs scheduled runs, which are not available yet. You can run it by hand whenever you want, and the agent will report what changed.

## Where does the data go when I get competitor news alerts?

The prompt tells your agent to write one row per result to your own Supabase project, with the source, the endpoint, the cost and the time. looot returns the data and bills the call. It does not store your rows.

## What can looot not do when I get competitor news alerts?

looot returns data and does not do delivering alerts. Your agent needs another tool for that part.

## Related recipes

- /recipes/pricing-page-monitor
- /recipes/product-hunt-launch-tracker
- /recipes/hiring-signal-watch

## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. The cost per 1,000 runs is read live from the catalog on the web page.