Track competitors and emerging trends with Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine – Feedly Blog

The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, called Leo, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time.

In this article, we’ll show you how to use Leo to:

  • Track your competitors and their strategic moves
  • Stay ahead of consumer trends and insights
  • Scout technical innovation
  • Identify business development opportunities

Before we look at those four examples, let’s start with a short overview of how Leo works.

Meet Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine

Leo reads millions of articles, reports, and social media posts to determine if they are relevant to the topics you want to track.

Feedly’s AI Engine (Leo) automatically tags key market intelligence concepts

All this information is at your fingertips in near real-time via a powerful search and tracking interface called Leo Web Alerts.

To understand how this works, let’s review a Leo Web Alert designed to track Amazon’s recent product launches:

Leo Web Alerts: A powerful and intuitive search and tracking interface

Creating a Leo Web Alert is a three-step process:

  1. Use Leo Models to define the information you want to gather. In our example, we use a Company and Strategic Move Leo Model to track all information about Amazon’s product launches.
  2. Use AND, OR, NOT operators to combine multiple Leo Models and refine your focus. In our example, we use AND to only track articles that reference both Amazon and product launches.
  3. If needed, refine sources with your own trusted sources. By default, Leo Web Alerts will search across the Market Intelligence Bundle, which is a collection of top tier B2B sources including strategy magazines, tech blogs, business magazines, research journals, and trade publications. You can control the sources your Web Alert pulls from using the “Refine Sources” feature.

Leo Web Alerts are Feeds you can add to a team or personal Folder. New articles, reports, or social media posts that match the specified Leo Models will appear in the Leo Web Alert feed.

Leo Models are easier to use, more comprehensive, and less noisy than traditional keyword searches

The power of Leo Web Alerts is that Amazon and Product Launches are not simple keyword matches. These Leo Models are machine learning models that encapsulate a broader understanding of each concept.

  • ‘Amazon’ is a Company Leo Model that tracks mentions of Amazon or any known alias, like amazon.com. A disambiguation model will be used to remove false positives for “amazon”, and only return relevant mentions of the company.
  • ‘Product Launches’ is a Strategic Move Leo Model that intelligently scans for new product announcements. This model will be able to find relevant updates even if the term “product launch” isn’t explicitly used.

Without Leo Model, finding the right information would require manually updating a long list of keywords, leaving room for human error and irrelevant results.

Feedly for Market Intelligence comes with a wide range of pre-trained Leo Models so that you can easily translate your intelligence needs into Leo Web Alerts.

Feedly includes AI models for key market intelligence models

Let’s examine how to combine these Leo Models to build a strong market intelligence engine.

Track your competitors and their strategic moves

Tracking the strategic moves of your competitors can be tedious and overwhelming. That’s why Feedly has created Company Leo Models, which tracks competitor decisions and actions using Artificial Intelligence, saving your team hundreds of hours.

Let’s take a look at a Leo Web Alert designed to track all the latest updates about Apple:

Use Company Leo Models to track mentions and updates from specific companies
  • ‘Apple’ is a Company Leo Model that tracks all mentions of Apple and its aliases (such as Apple, Inc. and apple.com). A disambiguation model will be used to remove false positives for “apple”, and only return relevant mentions of the company.

You can use Strategic Move Leo Models to refine your competitive research to only the most relevant updates, such as Product Launches, New Patents, and Partnerships.

Let’s take a look at a Leo Web Alert designed to track Apple’s newest patents and tech innovations:

Use Strategic Moves Leo Modelss to track specific news about competitors, like New Patents or Innovations
  • ‘Apple’ is a Company Leo Model that tracks all mentions of Apple and its common aliases.
  • ‘New Patents’ is a Strategic Move Leo Model that tracks newly published patents.
  • ‘Tech & Scientific Innovation’ is a Leo Model that tracks breakthroughs and innovations by companies, startups, and research teams.

Here are some additional Leo Models you can use to refine your competitive research:

Use different Leo Models to refine your competitive research

Discover emerging trends

Manually tracking consumer behaviors often feels like searching for a needle in a haystack. That’s why we built the Consumer Insights Leo Model, which surfaces articles that mention behavioral statistics and consumer data most relevant to you.

Let’s take a look at a Leo Web Alert designed to track Consumer Insights related to Sustainability:

The Consumer Insights Leo Model detects articles that mention behavioral statistics related to customers and consumers
  • ‘Consumer Insights’ is a Leo Model that tracks consumer statistics related to emerging societal, technological, economic, ecological, and political trends.
  • ‘Sustainability’ is a Leo Model that intelligently scans for mention of Environmental Sustainability and everything related to this topic.

Scout technological innovation

Market Intelligence teams leverage Feedly’s powerful AI Engine to make their tech innovation research 70% faster. Technology Leo Models intelligently scan for a range of new technologies, such as Augmented Reality, Crypto, and Quantum Computing.

Let’s take a look at a Leo Web Alert designed to track updates about Crypto and Digital Wallets:

Track relevant new technologies like Crypto with Technology Leo Models
  • ‘Crypto’ is a Technology Leo Model that recognizes numerous terms for Crypto. The Leo Model will continuously learn and include new terms, keeping pace with ever-changing technologies.
  • ‘Digital Wallet’ is a Leo Model that intelligently scans for mentions of digital wallets and continuously updates to account for new aliases.

Identify new partnership opportunities

Keeping up with business development opportunities helps your company stay competitive in your industry. Leo Web Alerts allow you to identify and act on key market opportunities as they arise.

Let’s take a look at a Leo Web Alert designed to gather intelligence about companies that have recently raised funds in the finance industry:

Tracking Funding Events in your industry allows your team to stay ahead of partnerships opportunities for specific or broad industries
  • Finance Industry’ is an Industry Leo Model that classifies articles related to the finance industry based on company mentions and terminology.
  • Funding Events’ is a Strategic Move Leo Model that detects any capital-raising events, from seed funding to late-stage rounds or exits.

Getting smarter every day

The world’s leading Market Intelligence teams use Feedly to stay competitive, so the product constantly improves based on their feedback.

Here is the roadmap for some new Leo Models we are researching for our Market Intelligence customers:

2022 Leo Models Roadmap – Market Intelligence

Feedly for Market Intelligence customers can reach out to [email protected] to share feedback on existing Leo Models or suggestions for new Leo Models. We value our community’s input, as this ensures Feedly is working at full capacity to serve your Market Intelligence needs.

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