AI Does Competitor Research You'd Pay an Intern For

End-of-lesson check

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1. Why should you verify that the information AI provides about competitors is current?

   1. AI always invents completely new information
   2. Competitors never update their websites
   3. AI cannot analyze any numerical data
   4. Pricing and product offerings can change from week to week

2. What does a 'gap analysis' help a business find?

   1. The exact location of competitor offices
   2. Financial gaps in the company's budget
   3. Market opportunities that competitors are not serving
   4. Ways to copy exactly what competitors do

3. In a SWOT analysis, what do the 'S' and 'W' stand for?

   1. Strategy and Winners
   2. Supply and Demand
   3. Sales and Website
   4. Strengths and Weaknesses

4. You paste three competitor product pages into AI and ask for a comparison table. What are you performing?

   1. A legal investigation
   2. A gap analysis
   3. A market takeover
   4. A competitive analysis

5. What type of information can AI analyze from competitor websites to help your business?

   1. Only text descriptions
   2. Only contact information
   3. Pricing patterns, content themes, and product gaps
   4. Nothing—AI cannot read websites

6. A student asks AI to find 'gaps a smaller brand could exploit.' What is AI being asked to do?

   1. Find legal loopholes
   2. Hack competitor websites
   3. Identify market opportunities competitors are missing
   4. Copy competitor logos

7. The lesson compares AI's competitor research work to work you might pay an intern to do. What does this comparison suggest?

   1. AI is illegal for business use
   2. AI will replace all employees
   3. AI can do time-consuming research tasks that humans normally do
   4. Interns are more expensive than AI

8. What does 'positioning' mean in competitive business strategy?

   1. The order in which companies were founded
   2. Where a company is located geographically
   3. The physical placement of products on store shelves
   4. How a brand presents itself relative to competitors in customers' minds

9. You want AI to analyze competitor information. What inputs would you provide?

   1. Your own company logo
   2. A list of your suppliers
   3. A random video about cats
   4. URLs and screenshots of competitor pages

10. If a competitor currently sells running shoes at $80, $100, and $150, what might AI help identify as a 'gap'?

    1. The shoe factory location
    2. The CEO's favorite color
    3. The competitor's bank account number
    4. A price point (like $65) that no competitor is serving

11. What skill is AI demonstrating when it finds patterns across multiple competitor websites?

    1. Weather forecasting
    2. Human resource management
    3. Magic trick performance
    4. Pattern recognition

12. A smaller brand wants to compete with larger, established companies. How might AI help?

    1. By automatically winning customers
    2. By making the smaller brand physically larger
    3. By hacking the competitors
    4. By identifying weaknesses and opportunities the larger companies have missed

13. What output could you ask AI to create from three competitor 'About' pages?

    1. A list of the AI's favorite books
    2. A new company logo
    3. A gap analysis identifying opportunities
    4. A legal brief for court

14. What does competitive analysis help a business understand?

    1. Its competitors' strengths, weaknesses, and strategies
    2. The weather in competitor cities
    3. How to steal competitor employee salaries
    4. How many coffee shops exist worldwide

15. Why might a business choose to use AI rather than hiring someone to do competitor research?

    1. AI always produces perfect answers
    2. AI can physically visit competitor stores
    3. AI can process large amounts of information quickly and continuously
    4. AI doesn't require payment