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# Competitor dossier
> Everything Vector knows about one competitor, on one page: research how their product is built, collect their public sources, watch them for changes, and track their prices and features.
Click a competitor's name in the [list](/competitors/add-competitors) and you land in their dossier: one page holding everything Vector knows about that company. It's where you research them, collect their public sources, and decide what gets watched from now on.
## See how much you know
A dossier is built up over time rather than filled in at once. The counter above the tabs โ **Dossier ยท 0/9 filled** on a new one โ shows how many tabs have something in them: a resource added, monitoring switched on, a help center or changelog source set up, at least one scan or file. A tab with a check mark has content.
| Tab | What it answers |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| ๐ฌ Deep research | How is their product built? |
| Resources | Where do they publish things? |
| ๐ Monitoring | What's watched for changes, and how often? |
| ๐ฒ Pricing | What do they charge, and how has it changed? |
| ๐ Help/Docs | What does their help center say? |
| ๐ Change log | What have they shipped? |
| โฆ Feature scan | Which features do they say they have? |
| ๐งฉ Features | How do they compare, feature by feature? |
| ๐ Files | What do you know about them that isn't public? |
The **List** control next to the name moves the competitor between your short and long list โ promote them the moment the research justifies it.
## Learn how their product is built
On **๐ฌ Deep research**, click **โฆ Run deep research**. You get a structured teardown of the competitor's product in 13 sections: architecture, AI pipeline, privacy, plans, invariants, trade-offs. It explains how the product works inside rather than how it's marketed, and runs several hundred lines long.
It needs an [AI key](/getting-started/connect-a-provider) in **Settings** and your own product described on **My product**, because the research is framed against yours. Each run is kept as a version with its date and the model that wrote it; **โป Re-run research** adds a new one.
To steer the teardown toward what matters in your market, click **edit skill** and change the instructions behind it.
## Collect their public sources
**Resources** is the competitor's public footprint, grouped by kind: product signals such as help center, changelog, blog, release notes, pricing and feedback portal; social accounts; app store listings; and review sites like G2, Capterra or Trustpilot.
* **Let AI find them.** **โฆ AI scan sources** searches the web for the competitor's portals, profiles and listings and adds the ones it finds, without duplicates.
* **Add one yourself.** Click a quick-add button for the kind of source. It adds a row with an example address as a hint โ paste the real one.
The **Description** field at the top holds your own one-line read on the company.
## Watch them for changes
On **๐ Monitoring**, turn the switch on. Vector starts watching every source it can, and you uncheck the ones you don't care about. Social accounts, app stores and review sites stay links only โ they can't be watched.
* **Set how often.** **Check** sets the schedule: **Daily**, **Weekly**, **Every 2 weeks** or **Monthly**. Weekly is the default.
* **Check right now.** **โฆ Check now** runs a check without waiting for the schedule.
* **Pause.** Turn the switch off. Your choice of sources is kept for when you turn it back on.
The first check of a source is a **baseline**: it records what's there today and never raises an alert. After that, a change means items that weren't there at the previous check, each with a link you can open and verify yourself. Every check keeps a full snapshot of the source, so **history & snapshots** on a source shows what it looked like each time.
To manage monitoring for all your competitors in one place, see [Put a competitor under monitoring](/monitoring/set-up-monitoring).
## Track their prices
On **๐ฒ Pricing**, click **โฆ Scan pricing**. Vector fetches the competitor's pricing from the web and saves it. Each scan that finds different pricing is kept as a new version, so the tab builds up a change log of what moved, and a price rise becomes a fact with a date on it. A scan that finds nothing new is only noted under **Activity**.
**โฆ Re-scan pricing** takes a fresh capture. To have pricing checked on a schedule, watch the competitor's pricing resource under monitoring.
## Archive their help center and changelog
**๐ Help/Docs** and **๐ Change log** each save a whole section of the competitor's site as a copy you can read in Vector. Click **Add Help/Docs source** (or **Add Changelog source**), enter the root URL, set **Max pages** โ 500 by default โ and click **โฆ Crawl now**. Crawls need a Firecrawl key on the [Web scrapers](/ai/web-scrapers) tab of **Settings**.
* **Trust mode** decides how carefully pages are checked. **Lightweight** is cheap: a page is checked by its hash and a plausibility test. **Full corroboration** confirms pages against a second source and costs more.
* **Auto-index after crawl** prepares new pages for matching to your features as soon as they land. It needs an embedding provider in **Settings**.
[Competitor content archive](/competitors/content-archive) covers reading the saved pages and tracking what changed.
## Find out which features they have
Two tabs answer this from opposite directions:
* **โฆ Feature scan** โ what the competitor says they have. AI reads their site and lists their features as they present them. Each feature it finds arrives as a [candidate](/features/candidates) for you to review: attach it to a feature you already track, or create a new one.
* **๐งฉ Features** โ how they cover a shared list of features. **โฆ Evaluate vs comparison** checks this competitor against it and fills their column in the [comparison](/competitors/compare-competitors). Every evaluation is kept as a version, so **โฆ Re-evaluate** later shows which statuses changed.
**New model: this competitor โ** opens the competitor's comparison page, where both answers sit in one table.
To run either for several competitors at once, select them in the competitors list and pick **โฆ Feature scan** or **๐งฉ Features**.
## Add what you know yourself
Some of what you know isn't on the public web: battle cards, analyst reports, sales-call notes, trial screenshots, a recording of their demo. Put it on **๐ Files**. Text files are read by AI and cited as an internal source in research; images, audio, video and archives are stored for you to open. See [Files in a dossier](/competitors/dossier-files).
## Where to go next
Where the list comes from.
Turning dossiers into a comparison.