Durable ProgrammingKnow what your competitors change before your customers tell you.
We track the competitors you name — pricing, promotions, new services — and send a digest only when something meaningful changes. No dashboard to babysit, no constant noise.
A flat $500 fee covers six months of monitoring, set up in days. Run by the team behind Durable Programming's productized AI-automation builds.
Why this exists
Competitor moves are easy to miss and expensive to miss late.
For businesses that want to know when a named competitor changes price, runs a promotion, or launches something new — without assigning someone to check by hand or learning a monitoring dashboard nobody will open.
Competitors move quietly
A competitor drops a price, launches a promotion, or adds a new service — and you find out weeks later from a customer, or not at all.
Checking manually doesn't scale
Somebody has to remember to look, across every competitor, on some kind of schedule. That job falls through the cracks the first busy week.
Dashboards nobody opens
Most monitoring tools hand you a dashboard and call it done. If nobody logs in, nothing gets caught — the tool worked; the habit didn't.
What you get
One offer: competitors watched, a digest when it counts
Not a suite, not a dashboard product — a single, fixed-scope monitoring build.
Named-competitor tracking
You tell us who to watch — typically 3 to 8 competitors — and monitoring runs against their public pricing pages, promotions, and service listings.
A digest, not a dashboard
When something meaningful changes, you get a plain-language digest by email. No login, no dashboard to remember to check.
Six months included
One flat fee covers a full six months of monitoring, set up in days rather than a multi-week onboarding.
Signal, not noise
Wording tweaks and cosmetic page edits don't trigger a digest — price moves, new or dropped services, and promotions do.
Pricing
One flat fee. No retainer, no dashboard to maintain.
$500 covers six months of monitoring on the competitors you name. That's the whole offer — no tiers to compare, no upsell path buried in a call.
AI Competitor Watch
Know what your competitors change before your customers tell you.
Flat fee · 6 months of monitoring
- ✓ We track the competitors you name — pricing, promotions, new services
- ✓ A digest whenever something meaningful changes, not constant noise
- ✓ Six months of monitoring included, set up in days
- ✓ No dashboard to check — it comes to you
- ✓ Written content or a support bot (separate offers, not part of this one)
- ✓ Ongoing monitoring past 6 months
Set up in days, not weeks — and cancel is simple: it just runs out at 6 months.
Want monitoring alongside other automation, or past the 6-month window? That's a Custom Build — ask below.
Need something bigger — monitoring combined with content, support, or CRM automation across multiple systems? That's a Custom Build through Durable Programming, scoped and quoted separately.
How it works
From sign-up to your first digest in days
Tell us who to watch
A short form: name the competitors, and roughly what you'd want to know about (pricing, promotions, new services).
We set up monitoring
Tracking goes live against the pages that matter, tuned to your list — usually within a few business days.
You get a digest when it matters
No news is no email. When a tracked competitor changes something meaningful, you get a plain-language summary, not a raw data dump.
Six months, then it's your call
Monitoring runs for six months. Nothing auto-renews — if you want it to continue, or want it folded into a larger build, just say so.
Who's doing the work
Built and watched by the person who set it up — not handed off to a queue.
This is one of Durable Programming's productized AI-automation builds: a fixed scope, a fixed price, and a direct line to the person who did the work if something needs adjusting.
- ★ 20+ years of production software experience
- ★ Author of Practical Ruby Gems (Apress) and other books on software development
- ★ The same person scopes, builds, and reviews the monitoring — no ticket queue
- ★ Part of Durable Programming's productized AI-automation lineup
A straight answer
You might not need this.
If you only care about one competitor and already glance at their site every so often, checking by hand might genuinely be enough. This is built for when there are several competitors worth watching, or when "just check occasionally" keeps quietly not happening. If that's not your situation, you'll hear that plainly instead of a pitch dressed up to justify the fee.
Questions
What people ask before signing up
Can I really just buy this without a sales call?
Yes. The price and scope are fixed and posted above — fill in the form, and monitoring starts within a few business days. If you'd rather talk it through first, that's fine too; just say so in the message.
How do you decide which competitors to watch, and what counts as "something meaningful changed"?
You tell us who to watch — typically 3 to 8 named competitors — and we set up monitoring on their public pricing pages, promotions, and service listings. "Meaningful" means a price change, a new or discontinued offering, a promotion, or a similar move you'd actually want to know about — not every wording tweak on a page. You can adjust the list or the sensitivity once it's running.
What's the difference between this and a Custom Build?
This is one fixed-scope offer: competitor monitoring, delivered as a digest, for a flat $500 covering 6 months. If you need monitoring combined with other automation — content, customer support, CRM workflows — or a broader build across multiple systems, that's a Custom Build through Durable Programming, scoped and quoted separately.
We're not a tech company. Is this actually for us?
That's most of who this is built for. If you can list the competitors you'd want to keep an eye on, there's nothing else technical you need to bring — no dashboard to learn, no software to install.
What if you look at this and think I don't actually need it?
You'll hear that plainly. There's no upsell path this pushes you toward — if keeping an eye on one specific competitor by hand once a month would do the job just as well, that's what you'll be told instead of a pitch dressed up to justify the fee.
Who actually does the work?
David Berube, directly — the same person who scopes the monitoring also sets it up and reviews what it finds. 20+ years of production software experience, the last several increasingly spent on AI-driven automation, and author of Practical Ruby Gems (Apress) and other books on software development.
Get started
Tell us which competitors to watch
Send a few details and we'll confirm scope and start monitoring — usually within one business day. No sales pressure.