Competitor Digests with Zoom News Summary
Have Steve post scheduled competitor news summaries into a Zoom channel, no command needed
Overview
/latest-news is on-demand. A Zoom news summary is automatic. Set it once and Steve posts a rolled-up digest of competitor news and website changes into a Zoom channel on a schedule, so the whole team stays current without anyone running a command.
Who it's for: 📣 PMM who configures it · 🎯 Sales Rep who reads it in-channel.
Use case: Your team wants a standing daily or weekly digest of competitor movement posted where they already work, instead of remembering to check a dashboard.
Prerequisites
- Steve for Zoom Team Chat connected — see Adding the App
- The Steve bot is a member of the channel that will receive summaries
- Organization manager rights in Steve to save project settings
What a summary looks like
Steve posts a single, grouped digest — product launches, pricing moves, and other changes, per competitor — right in the channel.
Caption: A daily digest grouped by change type, delivered to your channel so nobody has to ask.
Set it up
Configure the summary from the project:
- In Steve, open a project and go to its Zoom settings.
- Under News Summary Settings, choose the Zoom Channel. Only channels the Steve bot belongs to are listed.
- Choose the Summary Frequency — Daily or Weekly.
- Click Save News Summary Settings.
Caption: Pick the channel and cadence, then save — Steve delivers on that schedule from then on.
Seeing "No channels available"? The Steve bot hasn't been added to any Zoom channels yet. Add it in Zoom Team Chat, then reopen this page.
Website tracking alerts
The same Zoom settings section also carries website tracking notifications for the project, so competitor pricing- and page-change alerts land in Zoom alongside the news digest.
Turn it off
To stop the digest without removing the app, open the project's Zoom settings and clear the notification channel.
Best ways to use it
📣 For PMM
- Set one digest per project so each team gets only its competitors.
- Start with Daily for fast-moving categories; drop to Weekly if the channel gets noisy.
- Use a dedicated competitive-intel channel so the digest doesn't compete with deal chatter.
🎯 For sales reps
- Treat the summary channel as your passive feed — skim it with your morning coffee.
- Seeing a launch or pricing move here is your cue to open /vs-competitor before the next call.
Next Steps
- Competitor News with /latest-news — pull the same news on demand.
- Intelligence Detection — capture the intel your team hears first.
- Troubleshooting — if summaries aren't arriving.