Generate a daily competitor intelligence briefing with OpenAI and Gmail

Description

Overview
Know what your competitors are doing every morning before your first meeting. This workflow visits each competitor website daily, uses OpenAI to analyse it for strategic signals, and emails your team a consolidated executive briefing automatically.

How it works

A schedule trigger fires every morning at 8AM
Your list of competitor URLs is loaded from the Configure node
Each competitor page is fetched and stripped to clean readable text
GPT-4o-mini analyses each one for key signals, threat level, and recommended actions
All analyses are aggregated and sent to GPT-4o to write one consolidated executive briefing
The briefing is formatted as a clean HTML email and sent to your team via Gmail
Every run is logged to Google Sheets with the date and summary

Setup steps

Competitors — Open Configure Competitors and Settings, replace the placeholder URLs with your real competitor URLs
Your details — In the same node set YOUR_COMPANY and YOUR_FOCUS to describe your market
OpenAI — Add your OpenAI API key as a credential at platform.openai.com
Gmail — Connect your Gmail account in Send Email Briefing and set your team email in the Configure node
Google Sheets — Create a sheet with columns: Date, Company, Competitors Analyzed, Briefing Summary. Connect your Google account and update the sheet ID in the Log node
Activate the workflow — it runs automatically at 8AM every day