ChatGPT agent builds a five-competitor workbook

Dries Faems tests ChatGPT agent against a startup idea for networking before conferences. The research task asks for a competitor workbook with columns for company name, website, location, offering and differences from his own product. A second worksheet captures positive and negative customer-review evidence about those platforms.

Faems describes roughly ten to fifteen minutes of agent work before receiving the result. The workbook identifies five competitors, all of which he recognises from his own previous research. That comparison provides a concrete human check on the competitor set, although it does not independently validate every review quotation or commercial detail in the file.

The source also explains that earlier, vaguer attempts produced weak outputs. He improved the instruction by specifying the sequence and spreadsheet structure. No connected private inbox is needed for this particular public-web research task; a calendar connection discussed elsewhere in the video should not be credited with producing the competitor workbook. The useful specification is to separate factual company fields, product comparisons and customer opinions into an inspectable artifact. The result supports examining a business idea, while market sizing and other experiments in the same video remain separate tasks rather than additional outcomes of this entry.

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Source: LinkedIn · Dries Faems