Meet Yuki - the competitor monitoring agent that runs on your laptop

Most companies say they "watch their competitors." In practice, that usually means someone on marketing manually checks a few sites every couple of weeks and shares an occasional screenshot. The signal-to-noise ratio on competitor moves is low enough that nobody wants to do this work daily by hand.

Yuki is one of the 7 production-ready agent templates that ship with Avery NXR. She visits the competitor sites you configure daily, detects meaningful changes, snapshots them, and emails you a weekly digest with competitive impact analysis. She runs entirely on your laptop, which matters because your competitor watchlist is itself competitive intelligence you'd rather not have a cloud LLM vendor compiling on your behalf.

What Yuki actually does

Every day at the time you configure:

• Yuki visits the competitor URLs you've added to her watchlist (pricing pages, product pages, landing pages, blog index, careers page, changelog)
• Renders each page (full DOM, not just HTML — she handles JavaScript-heavy sites)
• Diffs against the previous snapshot
• Filters trivial changes (timestamps, dynamic IDs, cache-buster query strings)
• Classifies meaningful changes (new pricing tier, new feature mention, headcount changes inferred from careers page, blog topic shifts, product positioning changes)
• Snapshots the change with before/after
• Logs to a structured store

Every week (or whatever cadence you choose):

• Yuki composes the digest — top changes per competitor, classified by impact
• Adds her impact analysis (what this change likely means strategically)
• Emails it to whoever's on the distribution list
• Optionally posts highlights to Slack

The daily visits run in 5-15 minutes total. The weekly digest takes another minute or two.

Why local matters specifically here

Your competitor watchlist is itself sensitive. The list of companies you're watching reveals where you see yourself competing, which companies you consider threats, and which moves would change your strategy.

Cloud-LLM-based competitor monitoring tools see your watchlist as a matter of course. Your competitive intelligence vendor knows exactly which competitors are top-of-mind for you and could, in principle, sell that signal to those competitors.

Yuki keeps the watchlist on your laptop. The competitor pages get fetched directly by your machine. The diffs are computed locally. The analysis runs on your local model. The digest goes from your machine to your team. No third party sees the watchlist or the analysis.

What's running under the hood

Yuki's graph in Avery NXR:

Scheduled trigger (daily at configured time)
  → Loop over competitor URLs:
       → Fetch + render page (web scraping node, JavaScript-aware)
       → Diff against previous snapshot
       → Filter trivial changes (rule node)
       → Classify meaningful changes (local LLM)
       → Snapshot before/after to structured store

Weekly trigger:
  → Aggregate week's meaningful changes per competitor
  → Generate impact analysis (local LLM)
  → Compose digest (local LLM)
  → Send via SMTP/Gmail
  → Optionally Slack notification

What it costs

A cloud-LLM equivalent monitoring 10 competitors daily, with weekly analysis, runs roughly $30-$80/month, or $400-$1,000/year. Add a third-party competitor intelligence SaaS and you're at $5,000-$15,000/year per seat.

Yuki runs on your local model. The marginal cost is electricity for the daily fetches and the weekly analysis.

The under-discussed benefit: depth, not just cost

Once Yuki is running, you can expand her watchlist without thinking about cost. 10 competitors becomes 50. 50 becomes 200. The long tail of "companies I'd like to watch but it's not worth the SaaS seat cost" becomes feasible.

The same is true for the depth of analysis. You can have Yuki cross-reference changes against your own product roadmap, flag changes that affect specific accounts you're in cycles with, or generate per-team digests (one for product, one for sales, one for marketing) — each with the analysis tuned to that team's interests. Cloud-LLM cost makes most of this impractical. Local makes it trivial.

Try Yuki in 5 minutes

If you've already got Avery NXR:

1. Open the Agents tab
2. Find Yuki (YUKI · MARKETING)
3. Click "Use this template"
4. Add your competitor URLs (pricing, product, careers, blog, etc.)
5. Configure daily check time and weekly digest schedule
6. Plug in your email provider
7. Hit Run for a manual test

You'll see the first batch of snapshots within a few minutes. The weekly digest comes whenever you've scheduled it.

If you don't have Avery NXR yet, request access at avery.software. Free Desktop tier, no card required.