Automatic competitor refresh — keep your intelligence current on its own

Automatic competitor refresh keeps your competitor intelligence up to date on a schedule instead of you remembering to refresh. When it’s on, the studio re-checks every competitor you track, pulls their latest posts, reviews, prices, and live promotions, and rebuilds your AI insights and recommendations — all on its own.

New practices start on Weekly automatically. You don’t have to set anything up — your competitor intelligence stays current from day one, and you can change the pace or switch it off whenever you like. This schedule is the only thing that refreshes competitors automatically: set it to Off and nothing runs until you press a refresh button yourself.

How to use it

The control lives under Connections, in the Automatic competitor refresh panel. Pick how often you’d like the studio to do the work:

1. Go to Growth → Connections.
2. Find Automatic competitor refresh.
3. Choose Off, Daily, Weekly, or Every 2 weeks.
4. That’s it — the studio takes it from there on the schedule you picked.

• Off — nothing runs automatically; you refresh competitors yourself when you want to.
• Daily — the most thorough setting. The studio records everything every day, so your view is always current. This is also the one that uses the most credits, since it does the full refresh most often.
• Weekly — a balanced once-a-week refresh. This is the default every new practice starts on.
• Every 2 weeks — the lightest schedule, for when the market near you moves slowly.

Each schedule does the same complete refresh — it only changes how often. You’ll see an estimate of the monthly credit cost next to the choices, so you can pick the pace that fits your plan before you commit.

Why Daily costs more

Every automatic refresh re-checks all of your competitors and rebuilds your insights — real work done for you. Daily does that full pass every day, so over a month it adds up to far more than Weekly or Every 2 weeks. Pick the slowest pace that still feels current for your area, and step up to Daily only if you’re in a fast-moving market.

It pauses if credits run low

If your balance gets too low to finish a scheduled refresh, the studio pauses that run rather than doing it half-way, and sends you a heads-up. Nothing is charged for a paused run. Top up your credits and the schedule simply picks back up on its own — you don’t have to turn anything back on.

Worked example

Dr. Nok’s practice tracks three competitors — a dental-tourism clinic, a chain, and the practice across the road. She never touched the schedule, so it’s on the Weekly default. Every week, without anyone lifting a finger, the studio pulls each competitor’s new posts and reviews, captures their current promotions and fees, and refreshes the recommendations on the Offers tab. On Monday morning she opens the dashboard and the counter-move suggestions already reflect the whitening package a rival started promoting over the weekend.

Related

• Connections — where this control lives, alongside importing your own posts and reviews.
• Competitors — the studios this schedule keeps watch over.
• Offers — the live-promotion feed and recommendations a refresh rebuilds.