For the third workflow, you unlock a major new capability: scheduled tasks.

You will build a competitive intelligence agent that runs every Monday morning, researches a competitor, and produces a fresh brief before you start the week.

This is where the agent stops being something you manually trigger and starts becoming something that runs on its own.

You go to bed Sunday night. You wake up Monday morning, and your competitor brief is waiting in Google Drive.

For a Shopify founder, this is extremely useful. You can track what competitors are doing every week, including new products, pricing changes, marketing moves, blog posts, social campaigns, and hiring signals, without spending an hour on manual research.

The Scenario

Pick one competitor in the space you are entering.

You want to track them every week without thinking about it:

• Did they launch anything new?
• Did their pricing change?
• Did they publish new blog posts?
• Are they running new social campaigns?
• Are they hiring on LinkedIn?

You want the agent to:

• Research the competitor on the open web using the Chrome extension.
• Check their website, pricing page, blog, social channels, and hiring pages.
• Structure the findings in a Google Sheet so you can track changes week over week.
• Write a Google Doc brief with the key takeaways.
• Run automatically every Monday at 8 AM.

Connectors used: Claude for Chrome, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.

Setting the Schedule

Once the prompt works in a manual run, turn it into a scheduled task:

1. After a successful run, open the Scheduled section in the Cowork sidebar.
2. Create a new scheduled task using the same prompt.
3. Set the frequency to weekly.
4. Choose Monday at 8:00 AM, or any time that fits your week.
5. Confirm the schedule.

That is it. The agent will now run automatically.

You can pause, edit, or delete the schedule anytime from the same menu.

Why This Workflow Matters

The first two workflows were useful, but you had to trigger them manually. This one runs while you sleep.

Multiply this across five competitors, ten content topics, or three pricing watchlists, and you can replace hours of manual research every week.

That is the real promise of agents: not just doing tasks, but doing them on a schedule.

A Few Warnings

The first scheduled run is the riskiest. Supervise the first 2-3 runs before fully trusting the workflow.

Scheduled tasks count against your usage limits. If you create ten daily scheduled tasks, you may burn through your Pro limits quickly. Be intentional.