Lindy monitors competitor LinkedIn ad creatives

Understory's hosts describe building a competitor-ad monitoring agent during a conversation with Lindy Drope, Lindy's head of go-to-market. Their own demonstrated workflow uses LinkedIn's ad library as the input and Slack as the notification channel. That gives the account a specific research-to-action chain, beyond a general description of what the platform might support.

The agent scrapes competitor ads, analyses new creatives and identifies targeting themes before sending notifications. The useful output is an alert about creative changes that a marketing team can examine. It is not evidence that the agent changed the hosts' campaigns or selected an advertising budget.

The hosts contrast the build with an older workflow that took them much longer to set up. That timing is a personal report, without a controlled comparison. The source also describes customers and Lindy's internal sales operations, but those separate anecdotes do not establish this monitor's performance. No competitor list, scrape interval, deduplication implementation or measured alert accuracy is provided. A copyable brief therefore names the competitors, defines what should count as a new creative and states the required Slack output; those added specifications belong to the suggested prompt, not to verified implementation details from the episode.

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Source: Blog · Understory: Ali Yildirim and Alex Fine