# Amazon competitor monitoring Human Guide

## What This Is For
Track competitor strategies, pricing changes, and market opportunities. It gives the agent a clearer input/output frame for competitive research: what context to ask for, what decisions to make, and what usable artifact to return.

Use this as a human-readable version of the Amazon competitor monitoring agent skill. It is meant for marketers, operators, founders, and other non-coders who want the workflow without reading agent-specific implementation instructions.

## When To Use This
- Use this when you need a repeatable process for amazon competitor monitoring.
- Use this when the task needs judgment, examples, constraints, or a clear output format rather than a one-off prompt.
- Use this when you want to hand an AI assistant enough context to produce a usable marketing artifact.

## When Not To Use This
- Do not use this when you only need a quick factual answer.
- Do not use this when the work depends on private data you cannot share with the assistant.
- Do not use this as a replacement for legal, compliance, financial, or medical review.

## What You Need Before Starting
- The goal or business outcome you want.
- The audience, customer segment, or market context.
- Any source material the assistant should respect, such as notes, briefs, examples, URLs, or brand guidance.
- Constraints such as tone, length, channel, deadline, region, or approval requirements.
- A clear definition of what a good final answer should look like.

## Step-By-Step Workflow
1. State the job clearly: "Use the Amazon competitor monitoring guide to help me with..."
2. Add context: audience, goal, offer, channel, source material, and constraints.
3. Ask the assistant to identify missing inputs before producing the final output.
4. Have the assistant follow the skill-specific guidance below.
5. Review the result against the final checklist and ask for revisions where needed.

## Skill-Specific Guidance
- **Price monitoring**: Track competitor pricing changes, discount patterns, and Buy Box rotation
- **Inventory tracking**: Monitor stock levels, restock patterns, and out-of-stock opportunities
- **Product launches**: Detect new competitor products and category expansions
- **Review intelligence**: Analyze review velocity, rating changes, and sentiment shifts
- **Advertising insights**: Identify competitor ad strategies and keyword targeting patterns
- **Performance benchmarking**: Compare your metrics against competitor baselines
- **Multi-marketplace support**: US, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, JP, CA, AU, IN, MX, BR
- Search `"[product category]" site:amazon.com` — identify top products by relevance
- Search `"[your main keyword]" amazon best sellers` — find category leaders
- Extract ASINs, current prices, ratings, and BSR data from search results
- Product title and current price
- Best Seller Rank and category position

## Decision Points And Nuance
The original skill emphasizes: Installation, Capabilities, Usage Examples, Workflow, Step 1: Identify Competitors, Step 2: Baseline Data Collection, Step 3: Historical Context Research, Step 4: Competitive Analysis Report, Output Format, Competitor Analysis Report: [Category].

Use these questions to steer the work:
- What is the intended audience or buyer?
- What source material must be preserved?
- What should the assistant optimize for: clarity, persuasion, accuracy, speed, creativity, or conversion?
- What examples represent the desired quality bar?
- What should the assistant avoid?

## Common Mistakes
- Starting without a clear audience or goal.
- Asking for a final artifact before sharing examples or constraints.
- Accepting a generic first draft without checking it against the intended use.

## Copy-And-Paste Prompt
```text
Use the Amazon competitor monitoring human guide.

My goal:
[Describe the business outcome]

Audience:
[Describe who this is for]

Context and source material:
[Paste notes, examples, links, or existing copy]

Constraints:
[Tone, length, channel, timeline, must-include items, must-avoid items]

Before producing the final output, ask me for any missing information that would materially improve the result.
```

## Final Checklist
- [ ] The output matches the original goal.
- [ ] The audience and context are reflected in the answer.
- [ ] Important constraints and source material were preserved.
- [ ] The assistant made the relevant decisions explicit.
- [ ] The final artifact is ready to use, review, or hand to the next person.

## Source
This guide was generated from the nexscope-ai/amazon-skills skill entry for `amazon-competitor-monitoring`.

## Source Skill Notes
These notes preserve the nuance from the original skill. Use them as supporting reference when the workflow above feels too generic.

# Amazon Competitor Monitoring 🔍

Track competitor strategies, pricing changes, and market opportunities. No API key — works out of the box.

## Installation

```bash
npx skills add nexscope-ai/Amazon-Skills --skill amazon-competitor-monitoring -g
```

## Capabilities

- **Price monitoring**: Track competitor pricing changes, discount patterns, and Buy Box rotation
- **Inventory tracking**: Monitor stock levels, restock patterns, and out-of-stock opportunities  
- **Product launches**: Detect new competitor products and category expansions
- **Review intelligence**: Analyze review velocity, rating changes, and sentiment shifts
- **Advertising insights**: Identify competitor ad strategies and keyword targeting patterns
- **Performance benchmarking**: Compare your metrics against competitor baselines
- **Multi-marketplace support**: US, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, JP, CA, AU, IN, MX, BR

## Usage Examples

Users can ask naturally. Examples:

```
Monitor competitor ASIN B08XYZ123 for pricing changes on Amazon US
```

```
Track the top 5 competitors in portable blenders category — alert me for price drops over 10%
```

```
Analyze competitor pricing strategy for ASIN B09ABC456 over the last 90 days
```

```
Set up monitoring for yoga mat category — track new launches and inventory patterns
```

```
Compare my product B0DEF789 against top 3 competitors: pricing, reviews, and BSR performance
```

## Workflow

### Step 1: Identify Competitors

Use `web_search` to find competitor products:

1. Search `"[product category]" site:amazon.com` — identify top products by relevance
2. Search `"[your main keyword]" amazon best sellers` — find category leaders
3. Extract ASINs, current prices, ratings, and BSR data from search results

### Step 2: Baseline Data Collection

For each competitor ASIN, use `web_fetch` to gather current state:
- Product title and current price
- Best Seller Rank and category position
- Customer rating and review count
- Availability status (in stock/low stock/out of stock)
- Prime eligibility and shipping options

### Step 3: Historical Context Research

Use `web_search` to understand competitor patterns:
1. Search `"[ASIN] price history discount"` — find pricing pattern information
2. Search `"[brand] new product launch amazon"` — detect launch patterns
3. Search `"[ASIN] reviews complaints issues"` — identify competitor weaknesses

### Step 4: Competitive Analysis Report

Synthesize findings into actionable insights following the output format below.

## Output Format

Present the final report in this structure:

```
## Competitor Analysis Report: [Category]