Sample Daily Brief — Harbour City Plumbing
Below is an example of the daily competitor intelligence brief a plumber in Sydney would receive after subscribing. This is the exact format and depth we deliver — same template, same signals, same action items. Only the names are fictional.
Harbour City Plumbing
5 competitor changes detected for Harbour City Plumbing today. Two high-priority items warrant action this week.
✅ Actions to Take Today (5)
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🔴 HIGH · re: Northshore Rapid Plumbing — Dropped call-out fee to $0 with any booked job — promoted site-wide
Don't silently match — reframe: advertise "no surprise fees, fixed quote before we start". Australians burned by tradie bill-shock value certainty over a $0 headline. Put the guarantee on your Google Business Profile and hero section.
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🔴 HIGH · re: Eastern Suburbs Plumbing Co — Now #1 in the Sydney map pack for "emergency plumber" — 600+ reviews
Reviews are the trades battleground here — automate a review-request SMS the moment a job is marked complete in your scheduling app. Recency + volume is what moves the map pack; one happy review a day compounds fast.
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🟡 MEDIUM · re: Parramatta Pipe & Drain — Added online booking with same-day slots shown live
Add online booking that shows real same-day availability. Even a simple "book a plumber" form with a today/tomorrow toggle beats a phone number for a customer who'd rather not call.
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🟡 MEDIUM · re: Industry News — NSW announces expanded rebate for water-efficient hot-water systems
Register as an approved installer this week and add a "claim your NSW rebate" landing page. Homeowners searching the rebate will land on the plumber who made it easy to understand and claim.
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🟢 LOW · re: Inner West Plumbing — Reviews flag missed appointment windows — "waited all day"
Make punctuality your visible promise: advertise a 2-hour arrival window with an "on-our-way" SMS. Customers burned by an all-day wait nearby will switch to the plumber who respects their time.
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🔴 HIGH PRIORITY
Dropped call-out fee to $0 with any booked job — promoted site-wide
Northshore Rapid added a "$0 call-out with any job" banner across their site yesterday (was $89). Removing the call-out friction is a strong lever for emergency searches — a burst-pipe homeowner comparing three plumbers on their phone will ring the one with no upfront fee.
Sources: example.com
Now #1 in the Sydney map pack for "emergency plumber" — 600+ reviews
Eastern Suburbs Plumbing crossed 600 Google reviews this week at 4.8/5 and now ranks top of the local map pack for "emergency plumber Sydney". For after-hours searches, the top map result captures the lion's share of the calls.
Sources: maps.google.com
🟡 MEDIUM PRIORITY
Added online booking with same-day slots shown live
Parramatta Pipe & Drain swapped their "call us" CTA for a live online booking widget showing same-day available slots. Customers who don't want to phone — increasingly the default for under-40s — can now book them in 30 seconds.
Sources: example.com
NSW announces expanded rebate for water-efficient hot-water systems
The NSW government expanded its rebate program yesterday for water- and energy-efficient hot-water system installs. Every plumber in Sydney can offer it — the ones who become listed installers and lead with it will win the replacement jobs.
Sources: example.com
🟢 LOW PRIORITY / FYI
Reviews flag missed appointment windows — "waited all day"
Inner West Plumbing has several reviews this week citing missed appointment windows and all-day waits. Reliability complaints are a direct opening — their frustrated customers are searching for someone who turns up on time.
Sources: maps.google.com
The attachment brief-*.jsonl
is a machine-readable version of this brief: one JSON object per change.
Save it and paste into ChatGPT/Claude/etc. with a prompt like
"Summarize the top 3 actions from this competitive brief."
Wiring your AI agent to read your inbox automatically is also an option — but it's a level of access we don't recommend lightly. Inbox-reading agents have access to far more than this brief; that's a risk only you can decide to accept.
About this sample: The business and its competitors above are fictional — designed to show the format and depth of a real MyIntelBrief intelligence brief without naming any actual company. The signal types, action items, and analytical patterns reflect what we deliver to live subscribers every day. Your own briefs would be based on your real business and its real competitors.
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