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saksham 1a4c80958f Initial commit: CI Agent competitive-intelligence monitoring app
FastAPI + Celery + Next.js + Postgres/Redis app with company monitoring,
source collection, LLM-based change analysis, enrichment, and account
security (Turnstile, escalating lockout, email verification).
2026-08-05 10:48:20 -04:00

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CI Agent — Project Plan

What we're building

A Competitive Intelligence monitoring web application. Users register (or run in local single-user dev mode), add companies to monitor, describe what they care about, and choose a monitoring schedule. The system collects public information from multiple sources, stores historical snapshots, uses an LLM to analyze evidence into a structured report, detects meaningful changes between runs, scores them for severity and confidence, and notifies the user by email (and optionally SMS). Everything is viewable from a web dashboard.

Build strategy

Given the size of the full specification, we are building in the phased order below. Each phase leaves the application in a runnable state. We start with the vertical slice explicitly called out in the spec (local auth → fixture company → baseline report → fixture change → alert → Mailpit email → dashboard) and expand outward from there.

  1. Foundation — monorepo, Docker Compose, FastAPI + Next.js skeletons, health checks, lint/format/test scaffolding.
  2. Auth & Users — local dev-mode auth and JWT auth behind one interface.
  3. Company Management — CRUD, monitoring configuration, dashboard, add-company wizard.
  4. Collection Pipeline — collector interface, SSRF-safe fetching, website/RSS/custom-URL/SEC EDGAR/GitHub collectors, extraction & normalization.
  5. Background Processing — Celery + Beat, dynamic per-company schedules, run-now, retries.
  6. Change Detection — layered hash/structured/text/semantic diffing, significance scoring, severity classification.
  7. LLM Analysis — provider-agnostic interface (Mock/Anthropic/Ollama), six discrete analysis tasks, evidence-linked reports.
  8. Notifications — SMTP/Mailpit, Console, Twilio SMS, delivery tracking.
  9. Fixture Demo + Tests — Acme Mobility Systems fixture company (v1/v2), full automated test suite, Playwright E2E.
  10. Hardening & Docs — rate limiting, structured logging, retention, security review, Firebase migration doc.

Non-goals for this pass

  • Live scraping of sources with no reliable free public API (patents, customer reviews, most job boards) — these get a real interface + documented fixture adapter instead of a fabricated live integration, per the spec's own guidance.
  • Payment/billing, multi-tenant admin console, OAuth social login — not in the spec's MVP.
  • PDF export — documented as a later enhancement (Markdown/JSON export are implemented).

See TASKS.md for the live checklist, ARCHITECTURE.md for system design, SECURITY.md for the threat model, and KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md for what's stubbed vs. fully live.