VUST Custom Solutions · Marketplace Intelligence and Monitoring
Prices, reviews, and competitors — on schedule, reviewed by people.
For marketplace sellers · Ecommerce operators · Category managers · Agencies
Scheduled collection for supported marketplace sources: product matching, review themes, price alerts, and a recurring structured report your team acts on. Every source passes a terms-and-access audit first — never “all marketplaces”.
Supported sources only · Scheduled collection · Human review before decisions
Monitoring cycle
Illustrative — not a client case
Watchlist · one marketplace · 48 tracked products
Overnight run: competitor price drop on 3 tracked products; 12 new reviews collected; 1 listing change flagged.
- Scheduled collectionSystemPrices, reviews, competitor changes — on a fixed schedule
- Normalization & matchingSystemSKU matching, dedup, review-theme extraction
- AlertsSystemThreshold-based, deduplicated, delivered to your channel
- Structured reportSystemRecurring report with source freshness noted
- Analyst reviewYour teamPricing and catalog decisions stay with people
Collection is scheduled. Decisions are human.
01 · Fit
When is this the right fit?
Prices are checked by hand each morning
Someone opens competitor listings and copies numbers into a table.
Reviews go unread until a crisis
Themes and complaints accumulate silently across products.
Competitor changes are noticed late
Assortment and listing moves surface weeks after they happen.
Data lives in screenshots
Evidence is scattered across chats and ad-hoc spreadsheets.
Agency reporting eats hours
Client reports are assembled manually from the same sources every week.
Nobody knows how fresh the data is
Decisions are made on numbers with no collection timestamp.
02 · Process transformation
What changes in the process?
Today
- Manual checks of competitor listings and reviews
- Numbers copied into spreadsheets, no history
- Signals noticed late or not at all
- Report assembly by hand, per client or per week
With the system
- Scheduled collection from audited, supported sources
- Product matching and review themes with history
- Threshold alerts, deduplicated, in your channel
- A recurring structured report with source freshness
Human boundary
No automatic repricing and no catalog changes without an explicitly designed approval step. An analyst interprets the signals; source terms are respected — lawful, audited access only.
03 · Deliverables
What VUST delivers — and what is custom
Three honesty tiers: what VUST already operates in production, what is designed for your project, and what requires a per-source audit before it can be promised.
Operating at VUST today
- Review-analysis and price-monitoring flows for supported marketplace sources
- Scheduled jobs with recovery patterns
- Notification delivery
- Structured logging and cost accounting
Designed for your project
- Product identity and SKU-matching rules
- Alert thresholds and dedup policy
- Report schema and cadence
- Review-theme taxonomy
- Delivery destinations
Scoped after a per-source audit
- Each marketplace and locale — terms and access
- Collection volume and frequency
- Export destinations — BI, sheets, API
- Historical backfill
A marketplace source is supported only after its terms, access method, and product matching pass an audit — coverage is measured, never guaranteed.
04 · Example scopes
What a first release looks like
Two example scopes drawn from monitoring flows VUST operates for supported sources. They illustrate shape and boundary — not completed client cases.
Competitive assortment and review monitoring
Example scope — not a client case
A brand tracks competitors by hand: prices in a spreadsheet, reviews read when someone has time.
- Buyer
- Brand or category manager
- Inputs
- Product set with identifiers, competitor list, alert thresholds
- Systems
- One supported marketplace source; delivery to your channel
- VUST delivers
- Scheduled collection, SKU matching, review themes, threshold alerts, weekly structured report
- Human gate
- An analyst reviews signals before any pricing or catalog action
- Measured target
- Signal-to-action lag and review-theme coverage, measured over a fixed window
- Excluded
- Automatic repricing, additional marketplaces, completeness promises
- First engagement
- One marketplace, one product set, one report type, fixed monitoring window
Recurring seller or agency report
Example scope — not a client case
The same client report is assembled by hand from marketplace data every week.
- Buyer
- Marketplace seller or agency serving sellers
- Inputs
- Report template, product sets per client, delivery schedule
- Systems
- Supported source adapters; report delivery per client channel
- VUST delivers
- Scheduled collection, per-client report generation, delivery, source-failure dashboard
- Human gate
- A person approves the report template and reviews anomalies
- Measured target
- Hours per report cycle, measured against your current assembly time
- Excluded
- Client-facing data-completeness promises, new report types mid-scope
- First engagement
- Discovery with a per-source terms-and-access audit
05 · System anatomy
What is a monitoring system made of?
Six named parts. Each one has an owner and an acceptance check — this is what the per-source audit maps for your product set.
Custom scope
Source adapters
Per marketplace and locale, after a terms-and-access audit
System
Scheduler & recovery
Fixed cadence, retries, failure alerts
You + VUST
Normalization & matching
Product identity rules you approve
System
Alerting
Thresholds, dedup, channel delivery
System
Report & export
Recurring schema with source freshness
Your team
Analyst review
Decisions on pricing and catalog stay here
Coral marks the human-authority component. Actor tags show who owns each part in operation.
06 · First engagement
How does a project begin?
The entry is deliberately narrow: one marketplace, one product set, one report or alert type, a fixed monitoring window.
Default
Source audit & discovery
Terms and access audit for the named source, product-matching sample, report schema, architecture.
Right when: You know the marketplace and the product set, and the source has never been audited.
After the audit
Focused monitoring MVP
One source, one product set, alerts plus one report type, fixed window, human review.
Right when: The source audit passed and product matching works on a representative sample.
Existing setup
Audit of your current scraping
Read-first review of the collection setup you already run: legality, reliability, cost, blind spots.
Right when: You already collect data but it breaks, misses products, or its lawfulness is unclear.
Source audit
Terms, access, matching sample
Architecture
Adapters, schema, thresholds
Monitoring MVP
One source, fixed window
Production
Volume, destinations, roles
Operations
Handoff or contracted monitoring
You can stop at any gate · This category ships narrow first: coverage grows only after the window proves value
07 · Cost and timing
What affects cost and timing?
Exact pricing is stated in your proposal after the source audit — never as a public number. These are the factors that move it.
Price and schedule drivers
- Number of sources and locales
- Product-set size
- Collection frequency
- Matching complexity
- Alert and report depth
- Export destinations
- Support model
Always separate lines
- Provider and data-access costs
- Hosting
- Third-party services and licences
- Taxes, where applicable
Timing starts when access, decisions, and prerequisites are complete. Consumer VUST pricing does not apply to B2B delivery.
08 · Why VUST
Why VUST for marketplace intelligence?
Operating evidence — 07·2026
- Operating review-analysis and price-monitoring flows for supported marketplace sources
- Scheduled workers with recovery patterns
- Notification delivery in production
- Structured logging and cost accounting
Facts refer to VUST's own products and supported sources — not client cases.
After launch
Either an operational handoff — runbook, source-failure dashboard, a named owner on your side — or contracted managed operations with agreed coverage.
Sources change their layouts and terms. The operating agreement includes adapter monitoring and a repair path, so breakage is detected and scoped — not discovered in a stale report.
09 · FAQ
Clear before the contract.
Buying & scope
Which marketplaces do you support?
Sources that pass a per-source terms-and-access audit — VUST operates monitoring flows for supported sources and never claims “all marketplaces”. The audit is the first engagement.
Will coverage include every competitor product?
No. Coverage and freshness are measured and reported, not guaranteed. The report always shows when and what was collected, including failures.
Implementation & data
What happens when a source changes its layout?
Adapters are monitored; failures alert an owner instead of silently producing stale data. Repair is scoped per change — that path is part of the operating agreement.
Is the collection lawful?
Each source passes a terms-and-access review before any collection. Access-control bypass and unlawful scraping are declined — that boundary is written into the proposal.
Operation & ownership
Who acts on the alerts?
Your analyst or category manager. The system collects, matches, and flags; pricing and catalog decisions stay with people by design.
What does the report include?
The agreed schema: price movements, review themes, competitor changes, source freshness, and collection failures — delivered on the agreed cadence.
Next step
Name the marketplace and the product set.
The brief takes about five minutes: the source, the products, the signals you need, and who reviews them. It ends with a concrete recommendation — a source audit, a monitoring MVP, or a review of your current setup — prepared as guidance for the scoping conversation.
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