You need to know what your competitors are charging, what ads they are running, and how their positioning has changed since last quarter. Normally that is a full day of clicking through websites, ad libraries, and review sites -- or a $2,000/month research subscription that gives you stale data. An AI employee does the live research for you. Message it on WhatsApp or Slack, get a report back in your thread. No dashboards, no logins, no waiting for next month's PDF.
What You Can Automate
- ● Competitor pricing -- "Visit these 5 competitor websites, extract current pricing tiers and features, compare in a table." Live data, not training data.
- ● Ad creative tracking -- "Check the Meta Ad Library for [brand], pull their top-performing creatives this month, summarize the messaging angles." Perfect for media buyers.
- ● Market sizing -- "How many coworking spaces are in Austin? List the top 20 by Google rating with pricing." Real browser, real results.
- ● Review monitoring -- "Check G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot for [product] every Monday. Flag any new negative reviews and summarize trends."
- ● Audience research -- "Find the top 15 subreddits and forums where [target audience] discusses [topic]. Summarize the biggest complaints and feature requests."
Why a Browser Matters
Most "AI research tools" scrape cached data or rely on training knowledge. RIRD opens a real stealth browser -- the same one used by OpenClaw, the agent framework it runs on. It navigates live websites, handles JavaScript-rendered pages, passes bot detection, and extracts data as a human would. That means current pricing, not last quarter's.
When a competitor redesigns their pricing page, a scraper breaks. RIRD reads the new page like a person and keeps delivering.
Recurring Research on Autopilot
The real power is scheduling. Tell RIRD: "Every Monday at 8am, check these 10 competitor websites for pricing or feature changes and send me a summary on Slack." It runs every week without reminders, escalates only when something changes. You go from reactive to proactive intelligence with one message.
Monitor [competitor] pricing page, their Meta ads, and their G2 reviews. Weekly summary every Monday. Flag anything new immediately.
The Manual Alternative
Doing this manually: open 5-10 tabs, click through each competitor, copy data into a spreadsheet, format it, compare against last week. That is 3-5 hours per competitive review. Hiring a research analyst: $50,000-70,000/year. Subscribing to market intelligence tools: $1,000-3,000/month for dashboards you check twice.
RIRD: $9/week. Describe the research in plain language. Get structured results in your chat thread. No spreadsheet wrangling, no tool fatigue.
Start Researching
Connect RIRD to WhatsApp, Telegram, or Slack and send your first research task in under five minutes. Read the setup guide to get started, or see the documentation for advanced workflows.