Day 10 of 30 Days of Search. Most competitor research breaks in the same place: it finds a few recent headlines, asks a model to summarize them, and forgets where the claims came from. That is not enough for public-company competitive intelligence. A competitive intelligence agent is a retrieval-and-synthesis workflow that gathers competitor evidence, extracts strategic signals, and returns a cited brief for human review. Public companies leave trails across SEC filings, earnings commen...