🔴Analytics & Iteration
Part 3 of 3

The "Competitor Chat" — Automated Strategy Extraction

Staring at a spreadsheet of data is boring and slow.

CreatorHub Team
CreatorHub TeamAuthor
12 min read
January 15, 2024

Key Takeaways

  • • Staring at a spreadsheet of data is boring and slow.
  • • You don't want to be a data analyst; you want to be a strategist.
  • • Imagine if you could sit down with your competitor's marketing manager and force them to tell you exactly what works and what doesn't.
  • • That is effectively what AI-Powered Social Listening does.
  • • Instead of guessing their strategy, you just ask the data.

The Concept: The "Virtual Interrogation"

Most people look at a competitor's profile and see "Posts." The AI sees "Patterns."

By using Natural Language Processing (LLMs), we can extract the hidden logic behind their success in seconds.

We are looking for 3 specific patterns:

  1. The Topic Pattern: What specific subjects trigger their audience?
  2. The Hook Pattern: How do they open their posts? (Questions? Statements? Stories?)
  3. The Sales Pattern: How do they transition from value to pitching?

The CreatorHub Advantage: People AI Chat

You don't need to scrape data or build charts. You just need to ask the right questions.

Feature: People AI Chat

This tool turns a static profile into a conversational database.

The Workflow:

  1. Navigate: Go to the competitor's profile.
  2. Open Chat: Click the "People AI Chat" tab in the CreatorHub sidebar.
  3. Interrogate: Use specific prompts to extract actionable strategy.

The 3 "Killer Prompts" to Steal Strategy

Use these exact prompts inside the People AI Chat to decode anyone's success.

Prompt 1: The "High-Performance" Filter

"Analyze their top 10 posts from the last 6 months. What are the 3 recurring topics that consistently generate the most comments?"
  • Why: "Comments" signal community and pain points. "Likes" often just signal viral fluff. This tells you what the audience cares about.

Prompt 2: The "Hook" Decoder

"Look at their top 5 viral posts. What is the common structure of the first sentence? Do they use numbers, negative emotions, or direct questions?"
  • Why: You don't want to copy their words, but you must copy their psychological triggers. If they win with "Negative Hooks" (e.g., "Stop doing this..."), you should test that too.

Prompt 3: The "Gap" Finder

"Based on their post history, what common industry topics are they IGNORING or failing to cover?"
  • Why: This finds your "Blue Ocean." If the AI says "They never talk about technical implementation," then YOU become the "Implementation Guy."

Examples: From Insight to Action

Competitor: "Jane Smith" (Big Agency Owner).

  • You ask CreatorHub: "What is the tone of Jane's most successful posts?"
  • CreatorHub Answers: "Jane's top posts use a 'Vulnerable/Storytelling' tone. She frequently mentions failures and lessons learned. Her purely educational 'How-to' posts receive 40% less engagement."

Your Strategy Shift:

  • Before: You were posting dry tutorials.
  • After: You start wrapping your tutorials in a personal story of failure.
  • Result: You match the "Vibe" the market already loves.

🏁 Module 6 Complete!

You now have a radar for the market.

  • ✅ You know who to watch (Tier 1, 2, 3).
  • ✅ You know when to post (Heatmaps).
  • ✅ You know what to write (AI Chat Strategy).

Next Up: We stop guessing and start measuring our own success. In Module 7, we will dive into Analytics & Iteration—learning why your engagement dropped and how to fix it.

Actionable Steps (Homework)

Select the Target

Go to the profile of the #1 Creator in your space.

Run Prompt #1

Ask the People AI Chat: *"What are the 3 topics that get the most engagement for this user?"*

The "Pivot"

Take one of those topics. Write a post about it for *tomorrow*, but use a different format. * *If they did a text post You do a Carousel.* * *If they did a video You do a Step-by-Step List.*

Resources & Downloads

The "Interrogation Script" (10 Prompts to ask the AI)pdf

The "Interrogation Script" (10 Prompts to ask the AI) resource