The alerts that
actually matter.
NewsBuddy watches the web 24/7 and sends only the competitive signals worth your attention — straight to Slack or email.
Competitor cut its Pro tier by 20%
Pricing page changed 14 min ago. Source: their site.
Rival posted 9 sales roles in one week
Expansion signal in your EMEA segment.
New integration announced on their blog
Overlaps with your roadmap item.
Example alerts, shown for illustration.
You have a Google Alerts tab. You ignore it.
The signal is in there somewhere — buried under keyword matches nobody has time to read.
You missed the pricing change
A competitor quietly repriced last week. Your team found out from a customer, not from you.
Buried in keyword noise
Your Google Alerts inbox is 400 unread emails deep, mostly irrelevant matches on your own name.
Enterprise tools cost too much
Meltwater runs $3,500+/mo with a dashboard nobody opens. That budget doesn’t exist for most teams.
The market is racing ahead
$0M → $1.28B
Competitive intelligence software is projected to grow from $557M in 2026 to $1.28B by 2033.
Set it up once. Never miss a signal again.
Tell us what matters
Describe the competitors, markets, suppliers, and keywords you care about. No forms, no dashboards to configure.
NewsBuddy reads the web 24/7
Our LLM-based extraction pipeline filters real signal from noise across the open web, around the clock.
Get the alert where you work
A concise, actionable briefing lands in Slack or email the moment something changes — nothing else.
Why teams are switching to NewsBuddy
Smarter than the cheap tools. Cheaper than the smart ones.
| Meltwater | Owler | NewsBuddy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $3,500+/mo | $35/mo | A fraction of enterprise cost |
| Setup time | Weeks, sales-led onboarding | Self-serve, hours | Minutes, no login needed |
| Delivery | Dashboard you have to check | Dashboard + digest email | Straight to Slack or email |
| Signal quality | Broad media monitoring | Keyword-based, shallow | LLM extraction for meaning |
| Best for | Large PR/comms teams | Casual company lookups | Ops, strategy & sales teams |
Price
Meltwater: $3,500+/mo
Owler: $35/mo
NewsBuddy: A fraction of enterprise cost
Setup time
Meltwater: Weeks, sales-led onboarding
Owler: Self-serve, hours
NewsBuddy: Minutes, no login needed
Delivery
Meltwater: Dashboard you have to check
Owler: Dashboard + digest email
NewsBuddy: Straight to Slack or email
Signal quality
Meltwater: Broad media monitoring
Owler: Keyword-based, shallow
NewsBuddy: LLM extraction for meaning
Best for
Meltwater: Large PR/comms teams
Owler: Casual company lookups
NewsBuddy: Ops, strategy & sales teams
Built for teams who can't afford to be blindsided.
Projected competitive intelligence software market by 2033, up from $557M in 2026.
Continuous monitoring — no dashboard to check, ever.
What legacy enterprise suites cost. NewsBuddy runs for a fraction of that.
Simple pricing. No enterprise sales call.
Pick a plan, get alerts by tomorrow. No procurement, no demos, no per-seat gymnastics.
Built for teams who hate being blindsided
What early users are saying (illustrative feedback from our pre-launch pilot group).
“We caught a competitor’s pricing change the same morning it went live. Used to find out weeks later, if at all.”
“Google Alerts gave us noise. This gives us three things a week worth actually reading.”
“Replaced a $3,500/mo monitoring suite we barely logged into. Now it just lands in Slack.”
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before you stop refreshing tabs.
Google Alerts sends raw mentions; NewsBuddy uses LLMs to read and filter for what actually matters, then only pings you on real signal.
Stop checking. Start knowing.
NewsBuddy watches the web 24/7 and delivers only the moves that matter, straight to Slack or email.