🎮 The Next Input — Issue #035

The AI Bot That Tracks Your Competitors' Pricing

Aaron Bost
August 19, 2025

Many people enjoy the afternoon sun on the meadows of the English Garden, sitting and lying; others walk or ride a bicycle.

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

Google doubles down on vibe coding with Gemini Select & Ask. Strategy’s clear: Gemini = the vibe coder’s domain.
OpenAI launches a sub-$5 ChatGPT plan in India. Here’s to hoping for AUD-style pricing soon 🤞.
AI makes us walk faster, socialise less. Time to hug some trees and linger longer in the park.

🛠️ The Playbook — Global Pricing Tracker Bot

Mission Monitor AI subscription pricing by region, highlight anomalies (e.g., $5 India tier), and update a central dashboard for Finance.
Difficulty Medium | Build time 60 min
ROI Saves growth teams ≈ 6–8 h/week and surfaces new pricing plays instantly.

Step	Action
1	Trigger – Zapier Schedule → daily 07:00.
2	Web Scraper / API Calls – Query OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity pricing pages by region.
3	Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Prompt: “Compare pricing by region. Flag plans < $10 and note features included. Return JSON with provider, plan, region, price, anomaly_flag.”
4	Google Sheets – Append to `AI_Pricing_Tracker`.
5	Looker Studio – Visual dashboard: heatmap of global price variance.
6	Slack API – Post daily digest: “New anomaly: {provider}, {region}, {price}.”
7	Fail-safe – If scraping fails, log to `_ManualCheck` tab.

Pro tip: Add an “Opportunity Score” field (population × internet penetration ÷ price) to identify high-value expansion markets.

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts

Asset	What it does	Link
Apify	Global scraping-as-a-service with region selectors.	https://apify.com
CurrencyAPI	Normalises multi-currency prices.	https://currencyapi.com
GrowSurf	Referral tracking tool—pair with pricing tests.	https://growsurf.com
Prompt · Pricing Alert	Paste anomaly → instant Slack update.

Write 1 sentence: “🌏 {provider} now offers {plan} in {region} at {price}. Investigate opportunity.”

💡 Free Office Hours

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🕹️ Game Over

Automate one market scan tonight—tomorrow’s strategy deck will thank you.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #036.

— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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