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Find best-of lists that leave out your product

List articles that name your competitors and not you, with the site's contact and a pitch for your OK.

  • You start it: When you start it
  • Asks you first
Use in CuiarRun from your AI agent

What it does

The task

Search Google for list articles, such as best category tools and competitor alternatives, in the top 30 results for 6 search terms. Open each article, and record the title, the site, the date, the products in the list, and if we are in it. For each article that lists at least 2 of our competitors and not us, find the contact or update page that the site publishes. Put the results in a new Google Sheet, the highest search position first. Write a short pitch for the 5 best articles as Gmail drafts, and ask me before you send each one.

  • It works in any website, Gmail and Google Sheets, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • It runs once, when you start it.
  • It stops for your approval before it sends, posts, pays, books or changes a record.

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
categoryYour product category, as people search for itsurvey
competitorYour best-known competitorFieldnote

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

List articles checked: 64. We are missing from 21 that name 2 or more competitors.

ArticleSiteUpdatedCompetitors named
12 best survey tools for 2026Toolstack Review9 March 2026Fieldnote, Askly, Pollen
Fieldnote alternatives for field teamsOpsbrief2 September 2026Fieldnote, Askly
Best free form buildersFormcritic14 June 2026Askly, Pollen and 6 others

Pitch drafts: 5. Waiting for your approval before each send.

Sheet: Missing list articles, 21 rows

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in 2 blanks

    Type category and competitor. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it

    Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.

From the terminal

cuiar exec "Search Google for list articles, such as best survey tools and Fieldnote alternatives, in the top 30 results for 6 search terms. Open each article, and record the title, the site, the date, the products in the list, and if we are in it. For each article that lists at least 2 of our competitors and not us, find the contact or update page that the site publishes. Put the results in a new Google Sheet, the highest search position first. Write a short pitch for the 5 best articles as Gmail drafts, and ask me before you send each one."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Find best-of lists that leave out your product" template with category = survey; competitor = Fieldnote.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "run_task",
  "arguments": {
    "task": "Search Google for list articles, such as best survey tools and Fieldnote alternatives, in the top 30 results for 6 search terms. Open each article, and record the title, the site, the date, the products in the list, and if we are in it. For each article that lists at least 2 of our competitors and not us, find the contact or update page that the site publishes. Put the results in a new Google Sheet, the highest search position first. Write a short pitch for the 5 best articles as Gmail drafts, and ask me before you send each one."
  }
}

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