What this task does

Watches a list of SaaS companies and alerts you when one raises a new funding round or buys another company. AI reads the last 7 days of Google News and returns only real, new events, each with a one-line summary, date, confidence score, evidence quote and every source article. It runs on AI Account Watch - Custom Sales Trigger Alerts for Any Company List, costs $0.002 per company rule check, and exports to CSV, JSON or Excel.

โš™๏ธ The input this task runs with

These are the exact settings saved in the task. Open it on Apify and they are already filled in, so you can run it unchanged or edit a field first.

{
  "companies": [
    "Stripe | stripe.com",
    "Notion | notion.so",
    "Canva | canva.com",
    "Figma | figma.com",
    "Airtable | airtable.com"
  ],
  "rules": [
    "announces a new funding round or acquisition"
  ],
  "searchEngine": "google",
  "lookback": "week",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "auto"
}

๐Ÿ“ฆ What every run returns

One record per result, with these fields, exportable as CSV, JSON or Excel.

โœ“Company & domain
โœ“Rule that matched
โœ“One-sentence event summary
โœ“Event date
โœ“Confidence score (0-100)
โœ“Evidence quote
โœ“Every source article (title, publisher, date, URL)
โœ“Source count
โœ“Deep-verify result & note
โœ“Watchlist name & detected time

๐Ÿš€ How to run this task

  1. Open the task on Apify

    Use the button above. New accounts get $5 of free credit and no credit card is required.

  2. Check the pre-filled input

    Every setting shown above is already there. Change a city, a price range or the result limit if you want a different slice of the data.

  3. Click Run

    Pagination, rotating proxies and anti-bot handling all happen in the cloud. The result limit is what controls your cost.

  4. Export or schedule it

    Download CSV, JSON or Excel, or save the task in your own account and schedule it daily or weekly. Webhooks and the Apify API push results straight into your own tools.

๐Ÿ’ต What this task costs

$0.002
per company rule check
You pay the actor's normal price for what the run produces, with no monthly minimum. The $5 of starting credit on a new Apify account covers a test run of this task.

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