MarketEye
Distributed Price Intelligence & Competitive Market Monitoring
Continuously monitors prices, availability, offers, and competitive activity across online sources — and turns those observations into actionable pricing and marketing strategy.
- Distributed crawling
- Price history
- Event alerts
- Pricing rules
- API & WordPress
Project overview
Not what competitors charge today — how their offers change.
Distributed crawlers collect pricing data from retailers, suppliers, and marketplaces. Where sources and authorized channels allow, automated price inquiries cover products priced only on request.
The result is a searchable, comparable, time-sensitive view of the market — with event-driven monitoring, configurable pricing rules, and integration plugins to act on it across digital sales channels.
Fragmented prices
Comparable products across many sellers, structures, and descriptions.
Rapid fluctuations
Manual or infrequent data goes stale fast.
Incomplete availability
A low price is irrelevant if it's out of stock.
Hidden strategy
Isolated snapshots rarely show the full picture.
Manual research
Quotes and competitor checks consume effort.
Reactive pricing
Missed chances to compete or protect margins.
Marketplace pressure
Comparison listings demand quick adjustments.
How MarketEye works
From scattered listings to a continuous pricing workflow.
- 1
Configure
Sources, products, and categories to monitor.
- 2
Collect
Distributed crawlers on configured schedules.
- 3
Normalize & match
Comparable product and supplier records.
- 4
Analyze
Search, timelines, comparisons, and events.
- 5
Define rules
Pricing formulas and margin constraints.
- 6
Integrate
APIs and plugins deliver data and prices.
- 7
Refine
New observations inform the next move.
The solution
Collect. Understand. Act. Connect.
Ten capabilities organized around the path from raw observation to price execution.
Distributed crawlers and structured quotation workflows build a continuously refreshed market dataset.
Distributed web crawling & data collection
Collection workloads are distributed across multiple nodes rather than a single crawler — a foundation for managing diverse sources, parallelizing tasks, and scaling coverage as requirements grow.
Observations are normalized into a consistent structure so offers from different sources can be compared meaningfully. Schedules are configurable: fast-moving products at shorter intervals, stable ones less often.
- Names, identifiers & descriptions
- Listed & promotional prices
- Discounts & offers
- Stock availability
- Variants & package sizes
- Delivery terms
- Seller information
Public pricing & request-based quotations
Not every supplier publishes prices. Alongside public listings, configured workflows can initiate and manage price requests through supported channels such as email, and associate responses with the relevant product and supplier.
- Identify unpublished prices
- Standardized requests
- Inquiry status & history
- Match quotes to products
- Compare with public offers
Automated inquiries depend on supplier processes, supported integrations, and applicable communication policies — not every supplier can be queried or answered automatically.
Historical intelligence
A snapshot shows a price. A timeline shows a strategy.
Successive observations reveal promotions, stock gaps, and repricing — helping separate a temporary campaign from a persistent position.
- How often does a competitor change its prices?
- How long do discounts typically last?
- Which sellers consistently stay lower?
- Are price cuts tied to stock availability?
Competitor listing price, 12 weeks
Weekly observations · illustrative data
- Listed price
- Promotion (W5–W6)
- Out of stock (W8–W9)
View as table
| Week | Price | State |
|---|---|---|
| W1 | €24.90 | In stock |
| W2 | €24.90 | In stock |
| W3 | €24.50 | In stock |
| W4 | €24.50 | In stock |
| W5 | €19.90 | Promotion |
| W6 | €19.90 | Promotion |
| W7 | €24.90 | In stock |
| W8 | €25.90 | Out of stock |
| W9 | €25.90 | Out of stock |
| W10 | €25.90 | In stock |
| W11 | €24.90 | In stock |
| W12 | €24.90 | In stock |
Configurable pricing rules
From observation to execution — with safeguards.
Choose comparable competitors, set a position against their average, and let floors and adjustment limits keep the result sustainable. Try it below.
Target = avg(selected) × (1 − 0.005)
Rule output / Illustrative
- Eligible offers
- 3
- Average price
- €24.93
- × (1 − 0.005)
- €24.81
- Max change from €26.90 Applied
- €25.55–
€28.25 - Minimum price
- €22.00
- Target price
- €25.55
Real rules can also account for cost, margin targets, stock, promotion eligibility, rounding, and marketplace requirements — and every change stays traceable.
Competitor offers and prices in this example are illustrative. The lowest competitive price is not necessarily profitable or appropriate for every product.
One pricing logic, every connected channel.
Instead of updating prices by hand in each destination, retailers centralize pricing logic and connect it to supported publishing and commerce workflows — including the product feeds that comparison and aggregation services use.
- API layer
- WordPress plugin
- Comparison feeds
- Email quotations
Listing position also depends on availability, shipping, seller quality, advertising, and reviews. MarketEye makes pricing measurable and responsive; it does not guarantee rankings or sales.
Retail-focused intelligence
Built for categories where prices never sit still.
Cosmetics & personal care
Frequent promotions, variant changes, seasonal campaigns, and price gaps across retailers.
Nutrition & protein
Changing prices, package sizes, promotional bundles, and availability across specialist sellers.
Pharmacy-related retail
Permitted public listings and commercial information, subject to each source's access restrictions and regulatory requirements.
Other price-sensitive retail
Any category with comparable product data where continuous intelligence adds measurable value.
Business value
Useful to every team that touches price.
Retailers & commercial teams
- Less manual competitor research
- Offers compared across sellers
- Meaningful changes surfaced
- Decisions on history, not snapshots
- Differentiated positioning
- Faster seasonal response
Pricing & marketing teams
- Earlier promotion detection
- Discount & availability patterns
- Evidence-based campaigns
- Consistent pricing rules
- Product & category positioning
E-commerce & marketplace operators
- Intelligence in catalogs & feeds
- Fewer manual price updates
- Rules through integrations
- Visibility vs competing offers
- Centralized pricing logic
Procurement & supplier management
- Public offers vs quotations
- Historical supplier pricing
- Terms & availability differences
- Less quotation admin
Edgerunners' contribution
Data collection connected to real retail decisions.
We built MarketEye around distributed crawling, structured product and offer data, advanced comparison, historical trend analysis, event-driven monitoring, configurable pricing rules, and integration capabilities.
Its value extends beyond collecting prices: it moves businesses from occasional manual competitor checks to a systematic, data-driven way of monitoring markets and executing pricing strategy.
MarketEye turns market-wide price monitoring into actionable competitive intelligence and configurable pricing automation.
Data quality & pricing governance
Decision support — not a machine for copying prices.
Like-for-like comparison
Variants, package sizes, shipping, and commercial conditions accounted for where available.
Timestamped observations
Every data point carries when it was seen; stale or failed crawls are monitored.
Source-specific parsing
Parsers and product matching tuned to each source's structure.
Uncertain data handled clearly
Unavailable or uncertain values are marked, not silently filled.
Responsible collection
Methods respect laws, source terms, access controls, privacy, and technical restrictions.
Traceable price changes
Teams can see which data and rules produced each result, within margin floors and approval policies.
Competing in a fast-moving market?
We can help you monitor the sources that matter, understand how competitors behave over time, and connect that intelligence to pricing rules and the channels where you sell.
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