Market Radar: AI Agent for Competitor & Market Intelligence

Market Radar is an AI agent for competitor monitoring and market intelligence. The ASCN referral program and 6- or 12-month billing discounts lower the Start plan ($29/mo as of 06/12/2026, current pricing at ascn.ai/en/pricing). Use template · Ask a question

Overview

Every morning you open a dozen tabs: competitor blogs, GitHub releases, industry news, threads on X and Reddit. An hour goes to figuring out what changed overnight and what needs a response. A rival drops a price or ships a feature, and you hear about it a week later from a customer. A market analyst costs $4,000–7,000 a month and works eight hours, not around the clock.

Market Radar is a ready-made AI agent for the ASCN platform that takes monitoring off your plate:

• 🔍 Scans the market by your list — web search across your topics and competitors from the last 7 days, primary sources with links only.
• 📊 Builds a short brief — top-3 items, actions for the day, a breakdown by topic and competitor, each line tagged by importance.
• 📲 Sends it to Telegram before your first meeting — one line per item, no filler.
• 🗂 Keeps an archive in Google Docs (optional) — a searchable history of briefs across a month or a quarter.
• ✅ Never fabricates data — if there is no finding, it writes "no data," and attaches a source link to every fact.

You run it in plain chat inside ASCN or Telegram. Nothing to assemble by hand: the agent connects services on your request and works on a schedule.

How the agent works

You don't need to be a programmer. You run it in plain chat.

1. Install from the marketplace. Open the agent page, click "Use template" — the agent lands in your account in under 5 minutes.
2. Connect services in chat. Web search works out of the box. Connect Telegram in one click, add Google Docs for the archive if you want — all through an OAuth link.
3. Tune it to your niche. In a short chat you name 3–7 topics, up to 5 competitors, your timezone, and the morning brief time.
4. Start the scheduled task. The agent creates the job itself: every morning it scans the market and sends the "Top-3 of the day" to Telegram.
5. Run it from one chat. Type "add competitor X," "drop topic Y," "move the brief to 09:00" — the agent updates settings on the fly.

Why this AI agent for competitor monitoring beats hiring an analyst

• Works while you sleep. The brief is built overnight and on weekends, with no overtime or sick days.
• One subscription instead of a salary. A market analyst runs $4,000–7,000 a month. The agent covers the daily review for the price of a plan.
• Every fact carries a link. You get a verifiable source per item, not a summary from memory.
• Scale without headcount. Add a competitor or a new topic with one line in chat, not a new hire.

What users get

Across deployments the agent saves about 30–60 minutes a day on manually checking sources and removes up to 90% of routine news and release monitoring.

Results depend on your niche, the length of your watchlist, and how precisely topics and competitors are described. The agent guarantees a regular review; your setup drives its accuracy.

Deployment statistics

Product team — SaaS

• Setup: web search and Telegram, 5 competitors and 4 topics on the list
• Result: brief by 8:30, competitor releases spotted the day they ship
• Savings: about 4 hours a week on manual monitoring

Marketing agency — B2B services

• Setup: web search, Telegram, and a Google Docs brief archive
• Result: one market digest for the team, a searchable quarter of history
• Savings: roughly 6 hours a week on preparing reviews

Startup founder — fintech

• Setup: a personal topic list plus a Telegram channel
• Result: 0 major industry stories missed in a month
• Savings: about 3 hours a week

Figures are illustrative, show the expected effect, depend on niche and setup, and are reviewed by the ASCN team before publishing.

What's included

• A ready-configured agent: the analyst role, data-accuracy rules, and brief format are already written; setup takes under 5 minutes.
• A control guide: how to connect Telegram and Google Docs, set the schedule, and edit the list in chat.
• A brief skill and knowledge base: the radar-brief morning format and a watchlist the agent remembers and repeats.
• A personal manager: helps tune the agent to your niche (on the Personal plan and up).
• A private community: help from other users and fast support answers.

While rivals learn the news from customers, hand the morning market review to an agent that works 24/7. 🔥🔥🔥

Set it up once — and every morning a short brief with links waits in Telegram while you focus on the product.

FAQ

Do I need coding skills?

No. The agent installs from the marketplace and is set up in plain chat: you name topics and competitors, and it connects web search and Telegram and creates the scheduled task itself.

How is data kept secure?

Connections run through official OAuth; tokens and keys sit in encrypted storage and never reach chats or logs. Each agent is isolated, and access to Telegram or Google Docs can be revoked anytime.

How is an ASCN agent different from a chatbot?

A chatbot answers questions. The agent does the work: it searches the web by your list, builds the brief, and sends it to Telegram on schedule while you're busy elsewhere.

Can I tune the agent to my niche?

Yes. Through the topic and competitor list, the IDENTITY.md and SOUL.md files, and the brief skill, you set what to track, in what format, and how strict it is about sources.

Where does the agent get data, and does it make things up?

Only from web search and open pages from the last 7 days. A data-accuracy rule bans guessing: if there is no finding, the agent writes "no data" and attaches a source link to every fact.

Which services does the agent work with?

Web search and page reading work out of the box. Telegram handles delivery and Google Docs handles the brief archive. You can also connect any external MCP server.

How do I track what the agent does?

The Tasks section shows the schedule, status, and run history of the morning brief; the briefs arrive in Telegram and, if the archive is on, save to Google Docs.

Can I switch the delivery channel, say to Slack?

Yes. Connect the channel you want; the agent's logic stays the same and only the delivery address changes.