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Use case - Move prediction
Get a read on their next move
Monitoring tells you what a competitor already did. RivalSweeper reads the pattern in their own tracked pricing, catalog and marketing history and gives you an indication of what they are likely to do next, with the evidence and a confidence level attached.
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Move prediction reads - one real read, anonymized
Captured Oct 15, 2026 - Brand A, a home decor store in Europe
Brand A - read issued Oct 12, 2026, for the week of Oct 13 - 19
Likely to send another sale email this week
Why
- 5 sale emails from Sep 30 to Oct 9
- The latest, on Oct 9, at up to 40% off
- An earlier one, on Oct 4, already said "last chance" at up to 50% off
In 53 of 79 past cases across 26 brands that had sent a sale email in the past week, another followed within 7 days. This brand: 3 of 3.
Your move
Decide by Wednesday, Oct 14: answer on 2 or 3 lines, or hold your prices this week. Avoid a sitewide code to match their up to 40% off.
Watch for
A "last chance" or "ends" email before Oct 17 means the sale is winding down.
Outcome so far: on track
Sale emails arrived on Oct 13 (up to 40% off) and Oct 14 (30% off).
- The read is graded automatically after the week ends (from Oct 21): right if a sale email arrives Oct 13 - 19, wrong if they email without a sale, not scored if they send nothing.
The problem this solves
Sound familiar? Here is how RivalSweeper changes each scenario.
You find out about a competitor's sale after it is live and already eating into your week.
Move prediction looks for repeat cycles in their price, launch and promotion timing, and flags when the pattern says the next one is likely close.
Your plans are about next month, but your competitor data only tells you about last week.
Each read turns their history into a forward-looking indication you can plan against, with how confident it is.
You can see the individual moves, but not the pattern that connects them.
Pricing, catalog and marketing are read together, so a quiet catalog build plus a homepage change reads as one story, not two unrelated alerts.
How it works
We start from what is tracked
Every price change, catalog change and campaign already logged for a competitor becomes the input. Nothing new to set up.
The pattern gets modeled
Rules that detect repeat cycles (seasonal pricing, launch cadence, promotion timing) plus AI reasoning grounded in the actual detected moves.
You get an indication
Each read says what is likely next and how confident it is, with the evidence underneath.
Plan ahead
Prepare your stock, prices and campaigns for the move that is most likely, instead of reacting after it lands.
The features behind it
Why RivalSweeper for this
- Indications with a likelihood, never presented as a certainty
- Every read traces back to the specific tracked moves behind it
- Pricing, catalog and marketing read together, not one signal at a time
- Runs on the competitors you already monitor
Frequently asked questions
Can you predict what a competitor will do next?
Not with certainty, and we never claim to. Move prediction gives an indication with a confidence level, based on the competitor's own tracked history: repeat price cycles, launch cadence and promotion timing. Every read shows the moves behind it.
How is this different from alerts?
Alerts tell you what already happened. Move prediction looks across everything already tracked for a competitor to suggest what is likely to come next.
Does it work for every competitor?
It works on any competitor you monitor in RivalSweeper. The more history we have tracked for a competitor, the stronger the pattern.
Is move prediction available on every account?
Move prediction is rolling out as RivalSweeper's newest capability. Book a 15-minute walkthrough to see it on your competitors.
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Book a 15-minute demo and we will run it live on your real competitors.
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