Company news alerts without a clipping service
Competitors, customers, suppliers, the company you’re about to interview with. Tell Monitor Agent which companies and what kind of news matters, and it tells you when something new happens: a funding round, a launch, a price change, a leadership move.
The news you needed was in paragraph nine
Company news is scattered across press releases, trade press, regulator announcements and local outlets. Media-monitoring suites are built for PR teams and priced like it. Keyword alerts bury a company with a common name in noise. Most of the time you only need to know about a handful of events, soon after they happen.
How it works
List the companies and the events
One monitor can cover a few related companies. Say which events matter, like funding, launches, pricing, hires or lawsuits, and which don’t.
Set the cadence
Daily for competitors in a fast market, weekly for accounts and suppliers. Every check runs in the cloud and covers the past week of reporting.
Brief, sourced, deduplicated
Each alert names the company, the event and the date, with links. The same announcement covered by twenty outlets arrives once.
Prompts people use
- “Stripe, Adyen, Checkout.com: any funding rounds, acquisitions or layoffs announced this week?”
- “Notion, Coda, Airtable: any new product launches or pricing changes announced this week?”
- “Foxconn, Pegatron, Luxshare: any plant closures, strikes or production delays reported this week?”
- “Tesla: any recalls, lawsuits or regulatory actions announced this week? Give date and source.”
Competitive intelligence for one person, not a PR department
You don’t need share-of-voice charts to know a competitor raised a round or cut prices. Monitor Agent answers the question you asked about the companies you named, and only when the answer changed. Limits worth knowing: it reads the public web, so paywalled trade press and private databases are out of reach, and very small companies with little coverage produce few alerts.
Frequently asked questions
Can I track competitors with it?
Yes, it’s the most common use. Group a few related companies in one monitor, or give each company its own monitor if you want separate alerts.
What kinds of company news does it catch?
Anything reported on the public web: funding, acquisitions, product launches, pricing changes, executive moves, layoffs, lawsuits and regulatory actions. You choose which ones count.
Does it read press releases?
It reads what a web search returns for your question, which includes company newsrooms, wire services and many regulator sites. It can’t access paid databases or login-only sources.
How is this different from a media-monitoring platform?
Those are built for PR and comms teams: mention volume, sentiment dashboards, annual contracts. This is for a person or a small team who wants to know what happened, briefly, at the companies they follow.
What does it cost?
Pro is $9.99/mo for 5 monitors with daily checks, with a 7-day free trial and no credit card. Max is $19.99/mo for 10 monitors, up to 2 of them every 4 hours.
Stop watching. Get notified.
Describe what you want to track in plain English, pick a schedule, and let the AI report back only when something actually changed.