Bilby / Checks / Rivals

What did my competitors do last night?

On Bilby Pro, the Rivals check visits three competitor stores the same way Bilby visits yours — home, one collection, three matched products — with robots.txt respected, once a night at most, never logged in, public pages only. The report shows their prices on matched products with deltas, new products, their outages if their buy path fails, their speed against yours, and their AI-visibility line. The free scan and Bilby show one real fact about one suggested rival.

What the Rivals check catches

Price changes on products matched to yours (owner-confirmable matches)
New products since last night
Their buy path failing (an outage on a rival)
Their homepage speed vs yours
Their AI-visibility line (crawlers, llms.txt, schema)

Severity — the rule, not a feeling

P3Rival findings are informational; an alert fires on a matched-product price drop.

Honest limit. Rivals are visited lightly and politely: robots.txt is honoured, any 429/403 backs Bilby off for that store, and nothing is ever logged in or submitted. Product matches are by title similarity and are confirmable by the owner — an unconfirmed match is labelled as such.

Questions people ask

Is it legal to watch competitor stores?

Bilby reads only public pages a shopper sees, honours each store's robots.txt, backs off on any rate limit, visits once a night at most and never logs in or submits anything. That is the same footprint as a customer browsing.

How are products matched?

By title similarity across the visited catalogue pages; matches are shown to the owner to confirm or swap. Price deltas are only reported on confirmed matches.

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The free scan runs the Rivals check tonight — the whole report, nothing locked.

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