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Stand up a competitor-channel watchtower

Import every competitor's channel and interrogate all of it in one conversation — "what did they emphasize this quarter that they didn't last?"

Strategy leadMarket & Competitor Researchlibrary_import_youtube_channeldeep_context
The use case

The problem

Your competitors run their own broadcast stations. Product launches, feature demos, webinars, customer stories — all of it published, on a schedule, to channels your team glances at maybe twice a year. Each video is a small statement of strategy: what they chose to build, which audience they pitched it to, which words legal let them use.

Watching a rival's channel video-by-video tells you almost nothing; the signal is in the body of work. What do they keep repeating? What did they stop mentioning? Which customer type shows up in every story? Those are corpus-level questions, and nobody answers corpus-level questions by watching videos one at a time with a notepad.

The mechanics

How veridive MCP helps

library_import_youtube_channel turns each rival channel into a permanent, queryable asset: point it at the channel URL and every video lands in your veridive library, transcripts included — tag them per competitor so the shelves stay clean as you add more.

deep_context is the watchtower itself. Select a competitor's imported videos and ask across all of them at once: it runs retrieval over the full set of transcripts and answers with citations to the exact chunk of the exact video. "What do they promise about onboarding?" stops being an afternoon of scrubbing and becomes a thirty-second question with receipts. And because the library persists, next quarter's question — "what changed?" — gets answered against the same corpus, extended.

Step by step

How to run it

  1. 1
    Connect veridive MCP

    One-time setup: add the veridive MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client and generate your API key. Takes about two minutes.

  2. 2
    Import the rival channels

    One import per competitor, tagged by name. Imports are charged per video, so start with your two or three closest rivals and expand once the watchtower proves out.

    Import this channel into my veridive library and tag everything '<competitor>': <channel URL> — use veridive's library_import_youtube_channel. Skip Shorts.
  3. 3
    Interrogate the corpus

    Your assistant selects the imported videos and scopes deep_context to them. Ask body-of-work questions — themes, promises, positioning — and get chunk-level citations back.

    Across the imported <competitor> videos: what capabilities do they emphasize most, and what do they promise about <topic>? Cite the videos and moments.
  4. 4
    Watch for drift each quarter

    Re-import to pick up new uploads, then ask the comparison question. Messaging drift — new words, dropped claims — is strategy becoming visible.

    Comparing <competitor>'s recent videos to their older ones: what themes are new, and what did they quietly stop talking about?
Before vs after

Problems it solves

  • Competitor channels get checked twice a year, reactively, usually after a launch surprised everyone.
  • Corpus-level questions — recurring themes, dropped claims, target-customer drift — can't be answered by watching videos one at a time.
  • Competitive notes scatter across whoever happened to watch what; there's no shared, queryable record.
  • "I think they pivoted upmarket" stays an opinion without the receipts to make it a finding.
The payoff

Why it's valuable

  • A standing watchtower instead of ad-hoc panic research after every rival launch.
  • Answers cite the exact video and moment, so competitive claims in your strategy docs are verifiable.
  • The corpus compounds: each quarter's imports make the drift questions sharper.
  • One import serves the whole team — anyone connected can interrogate the same shelves.
Copy & paste

Example prompts

Import <competitor>'s channel into my library, tagged '<competitor>', skip Shorts — use veridive's library_import_youtube_channel.
Across the imported <competitor> videos, what do they promise about integrations? Cite the moments.
What's new in <competitor>'s messaging this quarter versus their older videos?
Questions

FAQ

Why import instead of just searching each time?

Search finds videos; the watchtower interrogates a curated corpus. Importing pins the exact record you care about, keeps it stable for quarter-over-quarter comparison, and makes every question run against all of it at once.

How does asking across a whole channel work?

deep_context runs over a selection of imported items — your assistant calls library_list or library_search to find the relevant videos and passes their IDs (up to 20 per question), scoping the chat to them. For bigger corpora, ask by theme or time window; the citations tell you exactly where each answer came from.

What does it cost to maintain?

Imports are charged per video (skip Shorts to keep it lean); asking questions uses deep_context credits per query. Searching and listing the library is free — so browsing the shelves costs nothing.

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Run this in your own assistant

Connect the veridive MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and paste the prompts above — setup takes about two minutes.