MCP

AI-agent format

Build a living competitor dossier your team can query

One shared library of rival content, searchable and chat-able — new teammates stop asking "where's the competitor doc?"

Chief of StaffMarket & Competitor Researchlibrary_import_youtube_channellibrary_searchdeep_context
The use case

The problem

Somewhere in your company there's a doc titled "Competitive Landscape — FINAL (updated)". It was accurate the week it was written. Since then: two rival launches, a repositioning, a pricing change, and forty Slack messages that each contained one perishable insight about a competitor, now unfindable. Competitive knowledge doesn't die of wrongness — it dies of staleness and scatter.

The fix isn't a better doc; docs freeze. What compounds is a dossier that stays primary-source: the rivals' actual launches, demos, talks and interviews, collected as they happen, queryable by anyone on the team the moment a deal, a roadmap debate or a board question makes a competitor suddenly urgent.

The mechanics

How veridive MCP helps

library_import_youtube_channel is the collection mechanism: each rival's channel imported and tagged, transcripts and all. New uploads join with a re-import — the dossier grows on their publishing schedule, not your update discipline.

library_search and library_list keep the shelves navigable — find the right launches and talks by title and tag in seconds, free. deep_context is the interrogation room: scope a question to a competitor's videos and get an answer cited to the exact chunk — "what does <rival> claim about security?" answered in thirty seconds, with receipts, by anyone. And because the MCP connection is shareable config, the dossier answers inside every teammate's own assistant: sales prepping a deal, product prepping a review, you prepping the board.

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
    Found the dossier

    Import each tracked rival's channel, tagged by company. Skip Shorts to keep the signal density high.

    Import <rival A>'s and <rival B>'s YouTube channels into my veridive library, tagged by company, skip Shorts — use veridive's library_import_youtube_channel.
  3. 3
    Prove it answers

    Ask the questions your team currently answers from memory. deep_context scopes to the tagged videos and cites the moments.

    From the <rival A> videos in my library: what do they claim about <capability>, and which customer types appear in their stories? Cite the videos and moments.
  4. 4
    Hand the team the keys

    Share the MCP connection the way you share tool config — project-level mcp.json or a shared connector. The dossier now answers wherever anyone works.

    Search my library for <rival B>'s launch videos from their latest release and summarize what shipped, with citations.
Before vs after

Problems it solves

  • Competitive docs freeze on their write date while rivals keep shipping.
  • Insights scatter across Slack threads and individual memories — unfindable exactly when a deal needs them.
  • Every new PM and AE re-does the same competitor research their predecessor already did.
  • Claims about rivals circulate unsourced, so strategy debates run on folklore.
The payoff

Why it's valuable

  • The dossier stays primary-source and current — it's the rivals' own published record, continuously collected.
  • Anyone answers competitor questions in seconds, cited; the CoS stops being the bottleneck.
  • Onboarding a hire onto the competitive landscape becomes "ask the dossier," not a week of link archaeology.
  • Free searching and listing means browsing the shelves costs nothing; credits go only to imports and deep questions.
Copy & paste

Example prompts

Import <rival>'s channel into my library, tagged '<rival>', skip Shorts — use veridive's library_import_youtube_channel.
From the <rival> videos: what do they claim about <capability>? Cite moments.
Search my library for <rival> launch videos and summarize what shipped in their last release, cited.
Questions

FAQ

How is this different from the competitor-channel watchtower?

Same foundation, different job: the watchtower is a strategy team's monitoring loop (themes, drift, quarter-over-quarter). The dossier is the whole team's reference desk — deal prep, roadmap reviews, board questions — built to be queried by many hands.

How does the team actually share it?

An MCP connection is configuration — share it like any tool config (a project-level mcp.json, a shared connector in your assistant). Everyone's AI then queries the same curated library.

How does it stay current?

Re-import each rival's channel on a cadence (idempotent — already-imported videos dedupe; you're charged per new video). The dossier updates on their publishing schedule.

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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.