Automate Competitor Monitoring with Bounce Watch and Openai

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{
  "name": "Automate competitor monitoring with Bounce Watch and OpenAI",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "content": "## Automate competitor monitoring with Bounce Watch and OpenAI\n\nBounce Watch tells you what just happened at a company and when \u2014 funding, senior hires, new offices, customer wins and partnerships, each carrying its own date. What the API covers: bouncewatch.com/products/data-enrichment-api\n\nWatching three or four competitors by hand means opening a lot of tabs and reading a lot of nothing. This workflow pulls each of their timelines once a week, has OpenAI write the digest, and emails it to you.\n\n### How it works\n\nA Monday schedule starts the run. A Settings node holds the competitor domains as a list, and a split node turns that list into one item per company. Each one goes to Bounce Watch for its dated timeline. An aggregate node gathers every timeline into a single item, and OpenAI writes the digest from it. The prompt is explicit about the two things a summary usually gets wrong: dates that record when a change was measured are not claims about when it happened, and an empty timeline is not evidence that a company was quiet.\n\n### Setup\n\n1. Get an API key at bouncewatch.com/register/api. It is free, no card, and every new account starts with 2,500 credits. Paste it into the Bounce Watch credential.\n2. Put your competitor domains into Competitor list.\n3. Connect your OpenAI credential and pick a model.\n4. Fill in the From and To addresses on the email node and pick your SMTP credential.\n\n### Customization tips\n\nNarrow each timeline with signal keys or categories if you only care about product launches or hiring. Send the digest to Slack instead by swapping the last node.",
        "height": 1000,
        "width": 520
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        -380,
        -120
      ],
      "id": "sticky-overview",
      "name": "Sticky Note"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "content": "## Your competitor set\n\nDomains live in one Settings node.\nSplit turns the list into one item each.",
        "height": 300,
        "width": 680,
        "color": 7
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        150,
        -170
      ],
      "id": "sticky-section-1",
      "name": "Section 1"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "content": "## Pull each timeline\n\nOne dated timeline per competitor,\nthen gathered into a single item.",
        "height": 300,
        "width": 440,
        "color": 7
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        870,
        -170
      ],
      "id": "sticky-section-2",
      "name": "Section 2"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "content": "## Summarise and send\n\nThe prompt states the rules about dates\nand about empty timelines.",
        "height": 300,
        "width": 440,
        "color": 7
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        1350,
        -170
      ],
      "id": "sticky-section-3",
      "name": "Section 3"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "rule": {
          "interval": [
            {
              "field": "weeks",
              "triggerAtDay": [
                1
              ],
              "triggerAtHour": 7
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "id": "bw0071-0000-4000-8000-000000000071",
      "name": "Every Monday morning",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger",
      "typeVersion": 1.3,
      "position": [
        220,
        0
      ]
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "options": {},
        "assignments": {
          "assignments": [
            {
              "id": "as0072-0000-4000-8000-000000000072",
              "name": "competitors",
              "type": "array",
              "value": "={{ [\"competitor-one.com\", \"competitor-two.com\", \"competitor-three.com\"] }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "as0073-0000-4000-8000-000000000073",
              "name": "lookback_days",
              "type": "number",
              "value": "={{ 7 }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "id": "bw0074-0000-4000-8000-000000000074",
      "name": "Competitor list",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.set",
      "typeVersion": 3.4,
      "position": [
        460,
        0
      ],
      "notes": "Replace these with the domains you actually watch."
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "options": {},
        "fieldToSplitOut": "competitors"
      },
      "id": "bw0075-0000-4000-8000-000000000075",
      "name": "One item per competitor",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.splitOut",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        700,
        0
      ]
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "resource": "signal",
        "operation": "getForCompany",
        "domain": "={{ $json.competitors }}",
        "splitSignals": false,
        "filters": {
          "days": "={{ $('Competitor list').first().json.lookback_days }}",
          "limit": 25
        }
      },
      "id": "bw0076-0000-4000-8000-000000000076",
      "name": "Pull the dated timeline",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-bouncewatch.bounceWatch",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        940,
        0
      ],
      "credentials": {
        "bounceWatchApi": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
      },
      "notes": "One item per company, with the signals nested, so each competitor stays a unit."
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "options": {},
        "aggregate": "aggregateAllItemData",
        "destinationFieldName": "data"
      },
      "id": "bw0077-0000-4000-8000-000000000077",
      "name": "Gather every timeline",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.aggregate",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        1180,
        0
      ],
      "notes": "Turns the per-competitor items into one item the prompt can read in full."
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "modelId": {
          "__rl": true,
          "mode": "list",
          "value": "gpt-4o-mini",
          "cachedResultName": "GPT-4O-MINI"
        },
        "options": {},
        "messages": {
          "values": [
            {
              "role": "system",
              "content": "You are writing a short weekly competitor digest for a founder. Rules you must follow. A date marked date_is_measurement is the date the change was recorded, not the date it happened \u2014 print it as a plain date and never write that the company did something on that date. A signal marked unconfirmed is inference, not announcement; say so or leave it out. A competitor with no signals in the window has not been shown to be quiet \u2014 say that nothing matched this week, never that the company has been inactive. Do not invent numbers, amounts or headcounts that are not in the input. Keep it to a few lines per competitor, plain text, no preamble."
            },
            {
              "content": "={{ $json.data.map(c => (c.company?.name || c.company?.domain) + \" (\" + (c.company?.domain || \"\") + \")\\n\" + ((c.signals || []).length ? c.signals.map(s => \"- [\" + s.date + \"]\" + (s.date_is_measurement ? \" (date recorded)\" : \"\") + \" \" + s.label + (s.unconfirmed ? \" (unconfirmed)\" : \"\") + (s.summary ? \": \" + s.summary : \"\")).join(\"\\n\") : \"- nothing matched this window\")).join(\"\\n\\n\") }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "id": "bw0078-0000-4000-8000-000000000078",
      "name": "Write the digest",
      "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi",
      "typeVersion": 1.8,
      "position": [
        1420,
        0
      ],
      "notes": "Connect your OpenAI credential and pick a model."
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "fromEmail": "",
        "toEmail": "",
        "subject": "=Competitor digest \u2014 week of {{ $now.format('d LLL yyyy') }}",
        "emailFormat": "text",
        "text": "={{ $json.message?.content || $json.content || $json.text }}",
        "options": {}
      },
      "id": "bw0079-0000-4000-8000-000000000079",
      "name": "Send the digest",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.emailSend",
      "typeVersion": 2.1,
      "position": [
        1660,
        0
      ],
      "notes": "Fill in From and To, and pick your SMTP credential."
    }
  ],
  "connections": {
    "Every Monday morning": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Competitor list",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Competitor list": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "One item per competitor",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "One item per competitor": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Pull the dated timeline",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Pull the dated timeline": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Gather every timeline",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Gather every timeline": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Write the digest",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Write the digest": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Send the digest",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  },
  "settings": {
    "executionOrder": "v1"
  },
  "meta": {
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": false
  }
}

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About this workflow

Automate competitor monitoring with Bounce Watch and OpenAI. Uses n8n-nodes-bouncewatch, openAi, emailSend. Scheduled trigger; 11 nodes.

Source: https://github.com/bouncewatch/n8n-nodes-bouncewatch/blob/main/templates/automate-competitor-monitoring-with-bounce-watch-and-openai.json — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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