Capstone 10: Competitor Intelligence System
Goal: Build a repeatable system tracking 3-5 named competitors' Reddit presence, mentions, sentiment, their own posting activity, producing a biweekly brief.
Prerequisite stages: 05-stage5-automation.md; 06-stage6-claude-operating-system.md (subagents and skills).
Weekly milestones: Week 1 define the competitor list and search queries; Week 2 build the monitoring pipeline (Reddit search plus a Claude subagent) and ship the first brief; Weeks 3-4 run two more cycles and refine.
Deliverables: system spec; three biweekly briefs; at least one documented insight the team actually acted on.
| Criterion | Points |
|---|---|
| System design | 20 |
| Data coverage and accuracy | 20 |
| Insight quality (actionable, not a raw mention dump) | 25 |
| Cadence discipline (three full cycles delivered) | 20 |
| Human-in-the-loop compliance (read-only monitoring, no automated engagement) | 15 |
| Total | 100 |
Claude workflows: a competitor-monitoring subagent (Stage 6's fan-out pattern) pulls and summarizes sentiment; a human reviews every brief before any action is taken on it.
Tools: Claude Code with subagents, a read-only Reddit MCP server, spreadsheet.