Monitor competitors for real-time intelligence signals

Competitive Signals lets you build a watchlist of companies and topics, then automatically monitors them for activity that matters to your product. When a competitor launches a feature, posts a surge of engineering jobs, or issues a press release, ManticScore detects it, generates an AI insight explaining its relevance, and scores it by how closely it relates to your market. You can monitor any company by domain, configure crawl frequency, and trigger immediate crawls when you need fresh data.

Adding companies to your watchlist

Search for companies to add

Before adding a company, use the discovery endpoint to search by keyword and see which are already on your watchlist:

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.manticscore.com/signals/companies/discover?q=fintech+invoicing&limit=10' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.manticscore.com/signals/companies/discover",
    params={"q": "fintech invoicing", "limit": 10},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"},
)
print(response.json())

{
  "companies": [
    {
      "name": "FreshBooks",
      "domain": "freshbooks.com",
      "description": "Cloud accounting software for small businesses and freelancers",
      "already_added": false
    }
  ],
  "query": "fintech invoicing"
}

Add a company

string

required

Company name.

string

Company domain (e.g. freshbooks.com). When provided, ManticScore automatically creates a monitor and enriches the company profile.

string

default:"watchlist"

Relationship type. Currently watchlist.

string

Industry sector for context, e.g. "fintech" or "productivity".

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.manticscore.com/signals/companies \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "name": "FreshBooks",
    "domain": "freshbooks.com",
    "relationship": "watchlist",
    "sector": "fintech"
  }'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.manticscore.com/signals/companies",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"},
    json={
        "name": "FreshBooks",
        "domain": "freshbooks.com",
        "relationship": "watchlist",
        "sector": "fintech",
    },
)
print(response.json())

{
  "company": {
    "id": "f6a7b8c9-...",
    "name": "FreshBooks",
    "domain": "freshbooks.com"
  }
}

Viewing signals

List all signals

Fetch signals across your entire watchlist, or filter by company and type:

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.manticscore.com/signals?limit=50' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.manticscore.com/signals",
    params={"limit": 50},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"},
)
print(response.json())

Filter by company and signal type:

curl

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.manticscore.com/signals?company_id=f6a7b8c9-...&signal_type=product_launch&limit=20' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

Signal shape

string

required

Signal UUID.

string

required

UUID of the company this signal belongs to.

string

required

Type of signal, e.g. product_launch, job_posting, press_release, pricing_change.

string

required

Short title describing the signal.

string

required

A factual summary of what was detected.

string

required

AI-generated interpretation of why this signal is relevant to your market.

number

required

Relevance score from 0 to 1. Higher scores indicate stronger relevance to your product space.

string

required

The URL where this signal was detected.

string

required

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the signal was first detected.

string

required

Display name of the company.

string

Logo URL for the company, if available.

Company profiles

Get a full company profile including a 30-day signal summary:

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.manticscore.com/signals/companies/f6a7b8c9-... \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.manticscore.com/signals/companies/f6a7b8c9-...",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"},
)
print(response.json())

The response includes a signal_summary object:

{
  "signal_summary": {
    "total_30d": 12,
    "threats": 3,
    "opportunities": 5,
    "recent_7d": 4
  }
}

Threats are signals that suggest a competitor is moving into your space or improving a capability that could hurt you. Opportunities are gaps or missteps you can take advantage of.

Competitive position score

Get an aggregate score that reflects the overall health and activity of your competitive intelligence:

curl

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.manticscore.com/signals/score \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

{
  "score": 75,
  "signal_count": 42,
  "recent_count": 12
}

A higher score reflects more active monitoring coverage and more recent signals.

Managing monitors

A monitor is a recurring crawl job attached to a company. When you add a company with a domain, ManticScore creates a monitor automatically. You can also create them manually and configure the crawl frequency.

List monitors

curl

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.manticscore.com/signals/monitors \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

Create a monitor

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.manticscore.com/signals/monitors \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "company_id": "f6a7b8c9-...",
    "crawl_urls": [
      "https://freshbooks.com/blog",
      "https://freshbooks.com/changelog"
    ],
    "crawl_frequency": "daily"
  }'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.manticscore.com/signals/monitors",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"},
    json={
        "company_id": "f6a7b8c9-...",
        "crawl_urls": [
            "https://freshbooks.com/blog",
            "https://freshbooks.com/changelog",
        ],
        "crawl_frequency": "daily",
    },
)
print(response.json())

crawl_frequency accepts daily or weekly.

Trigger an immediate crawl

Don’t wait for the scheduled crawl — trigger one now:

curl

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.manticscore.com/signals/monitors/monitor_uuid_here/run \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

{"queued": true, "monitor_id": "monitor_uuid_here"}

Use immediate crawls when a competitor makes a major announcement and you want signals surfaced right away rather than waiting for the next scheduled run.

Signal streaming via WebSocket

For real-time signal delivery as crawls complete, subscribe to the signal_crawl and company_enrich channels on the WebSocket endpoint. This is useful for building live dashboards or triggering automations the moment a signal is detected.

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Monitor competitors for real-time intelligence signals

Adding companies to your watchlist

Search for companies to add

Add a company

Viewing signals

List all signals

Signal shape

Company profiles

Competitive position score

Managing monitors

List monitors

Create a monitor

Trigger an immediate crawl

Signal streaming via WebSocket

​Adding companies to your watchlist

​Search for companies to add

​Add a company

​Viewing signals

​List all signals

​Signal shape

​Company profiles

​Competitive position score

​Managing monitors

​List monitors

​Create a monitor

​Trigger an immediate crawl

​Signal streaming via WebSocket

Adding companies to your watchlist

Search for companies to add

Add a company

Viewing signals

List all signals

Signal shape

Company profiles

Competitive position score

Managing monitors

List monitors

Create a monitor

Trigger an immediate crawl

Signal streaming via WebSocket