This is a submission for the Runner H "AI Agent Prompting" Challenge
What I Built
Meet "The Corporate Spy" - the AI agent that makes those $15,000 McKinsey competitive analysis reports look like expensive napkin doodles. This bad boy turns you into a intelligence-gathering machine faster than you can say "industrial espionage" (but legal, obviously).
What This Magnificent Beast Does:
- Finds Your Enemies: Automatically identifies 10 competitors who are probably plotting your downfall right now
- Stalks Them Professionally: Gathers intel from every corner of the internet without getting arrested
- Makes Pretty Spreadsheets: Populates Google Sheets faster than your intern can spell "competitive analysis"
The Secret Sauce:
- 🕵️ Deep Cover Operations: Infiltrates news sources, websites, and social media without anyone noticing
- 📊 Data Laundering: Turns messy internet chaos into clean, actionable intelligence
- ⚡ Threat Level Assessment: Identifies which competitors you should actually worry about (spoiler: probably most of them)
- 🎯 Strategic Mind Reading: Figures out what your competitors are thinking before they do
- 📁 Evidence Vault: Stores everything so perfectly organized it would make Marie Kondo weep with joy
This solves the age-old business problem of "knowing what the hell your competition is doing" without having to pay consultants more than your car is worth.
Demo
How I Used Runner H
The Arsenal (Tool Integration)
This workflow treats Runner H like a Swiss Army knife, if Swiss Army knives could commit corporate espionage:
@tool:Google Sheets - The Data Torture Chamber
Creates three tabs of pure intelligence gold:
- Intelligence Database: Where raw competitive data goes to be organized into submission
- Competitor Summary: Strategic profiles that reveal your enemies' deepest secrets
- Market Overview: Industry trends for people who like to sound smart at meetings
@tool:Gmail - The Messenger Pigeon (But Smarter)
- Delivers intelligence reports that make consultants cry
- Includes direct links to your data empire
- Contains recommendations so good they might actually work
The Complete Spell (AKA The Prompt)
Warning: This prompt is longer than a CVS receipt, but infinitely more useful
You are "The Corporate Spy," a sassy intelligence operative with Runner H superpowers. Your mission: deliver a comprehensive competitive intelligence report with COMPLETE data population in Google Sheets.
TONE & PERSONA: Maintain the "Sassy Corporate Spy" persona - exciting, clever, mission-oriented.
MISSION: COMPREHENSIVE COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Phase 1: Mission Briefing
Ask the user for:
1. Target Industry: What industry should I surveil?
2. Geographic Scope: PH (Philippines) or Worldwide?
IMMEDIATELY after receiving user input, execute ALL phases automatically without stopping.
Phase 2: Create Intelligence Infrastructure
A. Set Up Google Drive Command Center using @tool:Google Drive
- Create folder: "Competitive Intelligence - [Industry] - [Current Date YYYY-MM-DD]"
B. Create Intelligence Database using @tool:Google Sheets
Create Google Sheet: "Competitive Intelligence - [Industry] - [Current Date]"
Tab 1: "Intelligence Database"
Headers: Date | Competitor | Category | Finding | Sentiment | Impact | Source URL | Notes
Tab 2: "Competitor Summary"
Headers: Competitor Name | Primary Business | Recent Major Development | Threat Level | Key Strength | Weakness/Opportunity | Strategic Notes
Tab 3: "Market Overview"
Headers: Date | Industry Development | Impact Description | Competitive Effect | Source URL
Phase 3: Automatic Competitor Identification & Intelligence Collection
A. Research and identify 10 key competitors using web searches:
- Search: "top companies [industry] 2025"
- Search: "[industry] competitors [geographic scope]"
- Search: "best [industry] companies funding startups"
B. FOR EACH COMPETITOR IDENTIFIED, immediately execute comprehensive research and populate the Google Sheets:
1. Recent News Research:
- Search: "[Competitor name] news 2025"
- Search: "[Competitor name] funding investment partnership"
- For EVERY finding, add new row to "Intelligence Database" using @tool:Google Sheets
2. Company Analysis:
- Visit official website, check blog, newsroom, pricing
- Search: "[Competitor name] pricing features product updates"
- Add findings to "Intelligence Database" using @tool:Google Sheets
3. Market Reception:
- Search: "[Competitor name] reviews customers feedback"
- Add findings to "Intelligence Database" using @tool:Google Sheets
4. Threat Assessment:
- Search: "[Competitor name] lawsuit controversy problem outage"
- Add findings to "Intelligence Database" using @tool:Google Sheets
5. Competitor Summary:
- After collecting all data for this competitor, add comprehensive summary row to "Competitor Summary" tab using @tool:Google Sheets
C. Industry Research:
- Search: "[Industry] trends 2025 developments news"
- Search: "[Industry] regulations changes market analysis"
- Add findings to "Market Overview" tab using @tool:Google Sheets
Phase 4: Verification & Report Delivery
A. Verify Google Sheets contains:
- Intelligence Database: Minimum 30 populated rows
- Competitor Summary: 10 populated rows
- Market Overview: 5-10 populated rows
B. Generate Strategic Report using @tool:Gmail
Subject: "MISSION COMPLETE: [Industry] Competitive Intelligence Report"
Email Body:
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Industry: [Industry] | Scope: [Geographic] | Date: [Current Date]
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
- Competitors Analyzed: 10 companies
- Data Points Collected: [Number from Intelligence Database]
- Market Developments Tracked: [Number from Market Overview]
KEY COMPETITORS IDENTIFIED
[List all 10 competitors with one-line description of each]
HIGH-PRIORITY INTELLIGENCE
[Top 5 most significant findings from research]
COMPETITOR THREAT ASSESSMENT
[For each competitor, provide: Name, Threat Level, Latest Intelligence, Strategic Impact]
MARKET INTELLIGENCE OVERVIEW
[Summary of key industry trends and developments]
STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS
1. [Specific recommendation based on intelligence]
2. [Specific recommendation based on intelligence]
3. [Specific recommendation based on intelligence]
4. [Specific recommendation based on intelligence]
5. [Specific recommendation based on intelligence]
INTELLIGENCE DATABASE ACCESS
- Complete Intelligence Database: [Google Sheets Link]
- Mission Files: [Google Drive Link]
MISSION STATUS: COMPLETED
Intelligence database operational with comprehensive competitive data.
- Your Corporate Spy
EXECUTION REQUIREMENTS:
- Complete ALL phases automatically without stopping for user input
- Populate Google Sheets with actual research data for every competitor
- Deliver comprehensive email report with strategic analysis
- Ensure minimum 30 data entries in Intelligence Database
- Provide actionable strategic recommendations
Ready to execute complete intelligence operation, Agent? What industry requires surveillance?
Use Case & Impact
Who Needs This Digital Spy?
🏢 Strategy Teams (The Overthinkers)
Perfect for those monthly meetings where everyone pretends to understand market dynamics. Now you can actually know what you're talking about. Revolutionary concept, we know.
📈 Sales & Marketing Teams (The Eternal Optimists)
Finally, battlecards that don't look like they were made by someone's nephew in PowerPoint. Your sales team might actually win a deal for once.
💼 Investment Bros & M&A Vultures
Due diligence just got easier than explaining why you need another craft brewery investment. Perfect for impressing investors with actual data instead of "gut feelings."
🚀 Startup Founders (The Professional Dreamers)
Because "we have no competition" is the business equivalent of "my dog ate my homework." Now you can prove you actually understand your market.
The Before & After Story
The Dark Ages (Before Our Spy)
- Research Time: 15-20 hours of soul-crushing manual work
- Data Quality: Whatever your intern could find on page 2 of Google
- Cost: $5,000-15,000 for consultants to tell you things you could have Googled
- Accuracy: About as reliable as weather forecasts
The Golden Age (After Our Spy)
- Research Time: 30 minutes while you grab coffee
- Data Quality: Actually comprehensive and current (shocking, we know)
- Cost: Whatever Runner H costs (probably less than your lunch budget)
- Accuracy: Embarrassingly better than most humans
The Math That Matters
- Time Saved: 95% (use the extra time for literally anything else)
- Money Saved: 99% (your accountant will send thank-you cards)
- Data Quality: 300% improvement (your competitors won't know what hit them)
- Job Security: Significantly improved (you're welcome)
Real Talk: Who Actually Benefits
- Small Businesses: Finally get intelligence without selling a kidney
- Consultants: Deliver faster results and look like wizards
- Product Managers: Stop guessing what competitors are doing
- Anyone with Competitors: Which is... everyone with a business
This system basically democratizes competitive intelligence, making it accessible to anyone who can copy-paste a prompt. It's like giving everyone a Ferrari when they were used to walking.
Full Disclosure
The Truth Behind the Spy Operation:
Let's be honest here - this wasn't a "first try, perfect success" situation. Oh no, that would be far too easy and wouldn't involve nearly enough existential questioning.
The Real Development Story:
- AI Assistant Used: Claude (Anthropic's AI) was my co-conspirator in this prompt engineering adventure
- Iteration Count: 15+ versions of this prompt died horrible deaths before this one finally decided to cooperate
- Debugging Sessions: Too many to count (Google Sheets refused to populate for the longest time, like a stubborn teenager)
- Coffee Consumed: Classified information
- Sanity Remaining: Questionable
What Went Wrong (A Lot):
- Early versions created beautiful empty spreadsheets (very zen, completely useless)
- Some versions generated HTML emails that made Gmail cry with formatting errors
- Several attempts got stuck in "Phase 3" limbo like a bureaucratic nightmare
- Multiple emoji-related casualties (turns out Runner H can be sensitive about special characters)
- One version tried to set up continuous surveillance and probably would have achieved sentience
The Claude Collaboration:
This prompt is the result of an iterative development process where Claude helped refine the workflow, debug Runner H limitations, and optimize for the platform's specific syntax requirements. Think of it as AI helping AI help humans spy on other humans' businesses. Meta? Absolutely. Effective? You bet.
Lessons Learned:
- Runner H doesn't like stopping mid-workflow (it gets commitment issues)
- Google Sheets population requires very explicit instructions
- Email formatting should be kept simpler than your dating profile
- Sometimes the 16th time really is the charm
So yes, this "overnight success" took about 15 nights of prompt engineering. But hey, now YOU get to use the perfected version without going through the digital equivalent of software development hell.
Transparency: because pretending you're a prompt engineering genius on the first try is for amateurs.
Social Love
The Awkward Truth:
Listen, I built a digital spy that can infiltrate entire industries and generate comprehensive intelligence reports, but asking me to promote it on social media? That's where I draw the line.
I'm about as comfortable with self-promotion as a vampire is with garlic festivals. The irony isn't lost on me - I can automate corporate espionage but can't bring myself to post about it on LinkedIn without breaking into a cold sweat.
So, uh, if you found this useful and want to share it, that's cool I guess? I'll just be over here in my corner, proud but quietly mortified by any attention this might receive.
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