On-trend topics, fed to me
while I do nothing.
The top players are top players because they research their audience constantly, then post content based on what they find. That work costs them time and energy. So I built a bot that watches a group of people I know do that research well. The moment one of them posts, my bot reads the post, works out the topic, the research behind it, and the result, then logs it as a trend. My AI checks each trend against my audience, my products, and the things I am good at, keeps only the relevant ones, and tells me plainly when one is not for me. I end up with a short list of topics to post about, written in my voice.
Knowing what to post next eats your week, and most of it is just research.
The hard part of content is rarely the writing. It is knowing what to write about. The top players look effortless because they quietly do a lot of audience research, then post what they learn. To keep up by hand you would have to follow all of them, read everything, and work out the trend yourself, every day. That is hours gone before you write a word. The fix is to point a bot at the few people who already do that research, let it read every post and pull out the trend, then have your AI keep only the topics that fit you. Here is who it is for, what goes wrong without it, how it works, and what you get back.
Who it’s for
Anyone who has to keep posting and never knows what to post next. Creators, coaches, founders, consultants, and anyone building an audience. It works even if you have no time to research, because the bot reads the top players for you and your AI filters their trends down to the ones that fit you.
What goes wrong
Without it, you either guess what to post or burn hours doing research the top players already did. So you post late, off trend, or not at all. You do not run out of effort. You run out of certainty about the topic, because finding the right one used to mean reading everyone, every day, by hand.
How the machine works
You pick a group of people who research their audience well. The bot watches them, reads each new post, and pulls out the topic, the research, and the result, then logs it as a trend. Your AI checks each trend against you and keeps only the relevant ones. You read nothing. The short list builds itself.
What you get back
A short list of topics that resonate with your audience, your products, and your skills, set to post in your voice. No daily research, no scrolling, no guessing. Conservatively, you save several hours of research a week. Content that stays on trend all year, from a bot that does the watching for you.
I wanted to post the right things, but I did not want to do the research.
The thing nobody tells you about content is that the writing is the easy part. The hard part is knowing what to talk about. The people at the top of any niche look like they always know, but they do not guess. They quietly do a lot of audience research and a lot of questioning of their followers, work out exactly what their audience wants, then post about that. It takes them real time and real energy, and that effort is the reason they stay on top.
I did not want to copy them, and I did not want to spend my week doing the same research from scratch. The value to me was the topic, the thing that was clearly working right now in my world. The research was just the tax I had to pay to find it. If I wanted to know what was trending, I had to follow everyone, read everything they posted, and work out the pattern in my own head, every single day. That is a lot of hours for one short list of ideas.
So I built a bot and pointed it at the right people. I picked a group I know do this research consistently and do it well. The bot watches them, and the moment one of them posts a piece of content, it reads that post and works out the topic, the research behind it, and the result of that research. One group of people to watch, and from then on the bot tells me what the top players are talking about right now, without me opening a single feed.
The part that genuinely changed things is what happens next. My AI takes each trend and checks it against me, my audience, the products I sell, and the topics I am actually good at. It does not just hand me everything. It tells me plainly when something is not relevant, that the players were talking about this but it is not for me because I do not do that thing. So I am left only with the topics that truly fit me, the ones that resonate with my audience and my offers.
The numbers are intentionally modest and easy to check. Doing this research by hand means following the players and reading their posts, call it an hour a day if you are honest, which is several hours a week. The bot does that watching and reading for you, so conservatively you save those several hours every week, around a couple of hundred hours back across a year. On top of the time, the content stays on trend, so it reaches more people, and that steady on-trend presence compounds across the year and over three to five years into an audience that keeps growing.
Proof point: I have broken down how I run my business on autopilot and the many income streams behind it on YouTube, in my 28 income streams breakdown and a real look at the daily work in a day in my life, so the conservative numbers on this page are checkable.
Three moves that turn other people’s research into your short list of topics
What made this work was separating the two halves of content planning that everyone glues together. There is the research, finding the topic that is working right now, and there is the judgement, deciding whether that topic is right for you. Most people do both by hand for every post and run out of hours. The framework here hands the research to a bot watching the right people, and hands the judgement to an AI that knows you.
Watch the people who already do the research
The whole loop starts with one decision: who do you watch. Instead of researching your audience from scratch, you pick a group of players you know do that work well and consistently. The bot then watches them so you never have to open their feeds. This is the part that frees you, because the research is the real time sink, not the writing. You choose the group once and the bot reads them forever. Without this, you are back to following everyone and reading everything yourself, every day, which is exactly the work the machine exists to delete. Pick the right people and you have a tireless researcher that already knows where to look.
Pull out the topic, the research, and the result
Watching a feed is not enough on its own. The unlock is reading each post the way an analyst would. When one of the watched players posts, the bot reads it and pulls out three things: the topic they chose, the research that pointed them to it, and the result that post got. Then it logs all of that as a trend. Now you do not just see that someone posted, you see what the top players are talking about right now and why. The reading is the bot’s, the trend log is yours, and it builds up on its own with no effort from you.
Let your AI keep only what fits you
The last move is the one that saves you from chasing every trend. Your AI takes each logged trend and checks it against you, your audience, the products you sell, and the topics you are good at. It keeps the relevant ones and drops the rest, and it tells you plainly why, that the players were talking about this but it is not for you because you do not do that. You are left with a short list of topics that genuinely resonate with your audience. This is the judgement humans spend hours on, done for you, every time, so the only thing left is to write each topic in your voice.
Once those three moves are in place, knowing what to post stops being a daily research grind and starts behaving like a short list that arrives on its own. The watching is the seed. The reading is what turns posts into trends. The filter is the rebirth of a content plan that is always on trend without you opening a single feed.
Before the bot
- Following every top player and reading their posts by hand, every day
- Hours of research a week just to work out what is trending
- Guessing at topics, then posting late or off trend
- No clear way to tell which trends actually fit my audience
- A content plan that stalled whenever I ran out of research time
After the bot
- A bot watches the right group and reads every new post for me
- Each post is broken into topic, research, and result, then logged
- I see what the top players are talking about right now, in one place
- My AI keeps only the topics that fit my audience and products
- A short list of on-trend topics to post in my voice, automatically
Prompt 1: choose the right players to watch
Before you build anything, you need the right group to watch. The biggest mistake is watching loud accounts that post for reach rather than ones that genuinely research their audience. Use this prompt to choose a watch list that does the research work for you.
Watch list planner
Act as a content strategy advisor. I want to build a bot that watches a small group of top players in my niche, reads their posts, and tells me what topics are trending. A bit about me, my niche, and my audience: [describe yourself, your niche, and who you serve in one or two sentences]. Help me choose who to watch. Give me the traits of a player worth watching, the signs that someone actually researches their audience instead of guessing, how many accounts to watch so the trends are clear without being noisy, and the kinds of accounts to avoid. For each point, one line on why it matters for the quality of the trends I get.
The output is the watch list logic you set up once. Get this right and the bot is reading people who already do the research, so every trend it logs is worth your attention.
Prompt 2: teach the bot how to read a post
Watching feeds is only half the job. The bot needs to read each post and pull out the topic, the research behind it, and the result. Use this prompt to turn that reading into a clear, repeatable breakdown the bot follows on every post.
Post breakdown template
Act as a content analyst. My bot watches a group of top players and reads each post they publish. I need a clear, repeatable way for it to break a post down. Here is the kind of content these players post: [describe the formats and platforms, such as short videos, threads, or newsletters]. Write a breakdown template the bot can apply to any post: how to state the topic in one line, how to infer the research or audience need behind it, how to read the result it got from the signals available, and how to summarise all of that as a single trend entry. Keep each field short and plain so a log of these stays easy to scan.
Save the output as the breakdown the bot runs on every post. Because it reads each one the same way, your trend log stays consistent and you can scan a week of trends in a minute.
The 3-minute overview of how this works
Before the build steps, watch this short overview. It’s the exact video from the Automations Made Easy page, and it walks through the mechanics behind machines like this one. 1,000+ students have used these mechanics to save two hours a day, with zero coding.
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Week one: your watch list set, your first short list of topics.
Most people put off planning content because the research feels like a never-ending chore. That is exactly why this machine matters. A competitor trend bot is meant to feel like effort once and like a free researcher forever after. In week one you choose who to watch and set up the breakdown, then watch the bot turn other people’s posts into a short list of topics for you.
Week one looks like this. On Monday you pick the small group of players who research their audience well and point the bot at them. By midweek the bot is reading each new post and logging the topic, the research, and the result as trends. Then you switch on the filter, and your AI hands back a short list of topics that fit your audience and your products, with a reason next to each one. No scrolling, no daily research. A clear list of on-trend things to post about in your first week, from a watch list you only set up once.
The point of the first week is not the time saved. The point is to confirm the bot reads the right people, pulls out real trends, and that the filter keeps only topics that genuinely fit you. Once that is locked, every week after it is the same machine handing you a fresh short list on its own.
From there the maths is simple and conservative. Doing this research by hand is around an hour a day, several hours a week. Let the bot watch and read for you and that is several hours saved every week, around a couple of hundred hours back across the first year. On top of the time, your content stays on trend, so it reaches more people each week. Over three to five years, that steady on-trend presence compounds into an audience that keeps growing, for the price of one watch list.
All of this runs while you work on something else, take a holiday, or sleep. The bot watches the players, reads each post, logs the trend, and your AI hands you a short list. No feeds to scroll, no research to do, no guessing about what to post. The topics keep arriving on trend and the content keeps shipping with almost no effort from you.
Prompt 3: filter the trends down to the ones that fit you
A log of every trend is too much. The real value is the short list that fits you. Use this prompt to give your AI a clear rule for keeping the relevant trends and dropping the rest with a reason.
Relevance filter
Act as my content gatekeeper. You have a log of trends pulled from the top players I watch. I want you to keep only the ones that are right for me. Here is my audience: [describe who you serve]. Here are the products I sell: [list them]. Here are the topics I am genuinely good at and the ones I do not do: [list both]. For each trend in the log, tell me keep or drop. For a keep, say in one line why it resonates with my audience or fits a product I sell. For a drop, say plainly why it is not for me, for example that I do not do that thing. Then give me the final short list of topics worth posting about, in priority order.
The output is your short list, with a reason next to every choice. Run this whenever the trend log fills up, and you only ever work on topics that genuinely fit you.
Prompt 4: write a short-list topic in your own voice
The last step is turning a chosen topic into a post that sounds like you. Use this prompt to take one topic from your short list and write content for your avatar that promotes your product without sounding like everyone else.
On-voice content writer
Act as a copywriter who writes in my voice. I have a topic from my short list of on-trend ideas and I want a post that sounds like me. The topic: [paste one topic from your short list]. How my voice sounds: [describe your tone, or paste two or three lines you have written before]. Who I am writing for: [describe your avatar]. The product I want to point them toward: [name it and what it does]. Write the post in my voice, for my avatar, that speaks to the topic and gently points to my product. Keep it plain and human, no hype. Give me the main version plus two shorter variations for different platforms.
The output is an on-trend post in your own voice, set to publish. Run it on each topic from your short list and you have a week of relevant content without a single hour of research.
The exact build, step by step
Pick the players worth watching
Start by choosing the small group you want the bot to watch. These are the people you know do real audience research and post what they find, not the loudest accounts in the niche. A handful is plenty, because you want clear trends, not noise. Point the bot at that group once. From that moment it watches them for you, and you never have to open their feeds or scroll their posts again. This single choice is the only setup that needs your judgement, and it is the foundation everything else rests on.
Let the bot watch them around the clock
Choosing the players brings the right people into view, and a list of names is not yet a working bot. The next piece is the watching. The bot keeps an eye on every account on your list, day and night, and catches each new post the moment it goes live. You do not have to check anything or be online. This is the step that makes the rest effortless, because the watching is the part that used to eat your day. The bot never gets bored and never misses a post, so the trends it finds are always current.
Read each post for the topic and the research
Now the bot does the analyst’s job on every post. When one of the watched players publishes, the bot reads the post and works out three things: the topic they chose, the research or audience need that pointed them to it, and the result that post got. This is the part that turns a feed into intelligence. You are no longer just seeing that someone posted, you are seeing what they talked about and why it worked. The reading is automatic and it happens on every single post, so nothing worth knowing slips past.
Log every read post as a trend
Each time the bot reads a post, it writes the topic, the research, and the result into a running log. Over a few days that log becomes a clear picture of what the top players are talking about right now. You can see the repeating themes, the topics that keep coming up across the group, and the ones getting the best results. This is the trend report you used to build in your head after hours of reading. Now it builds itself in one place, on its own, and it is always up to date because the bot keeps adding to it.
Let your AI keep only what fits you
With the trends logged, your AI does the judging. It takes each trend and checks it against you, your audience, the products you sell, and the topics you are good at. It keeps the relevant ones and drops the rest, and it tells you plainly why, that the players were talking about this but it is not for you because you do not do that. This is the line between chasing every trend and posting only what fits. You end up with a short list of topics that genuinely resonate with your audience, with a clear reason behind every choice.
Write each topic in your own voice
Final piece. From your short list, the bot writes content around each topic in your voice, for your avatar, gently promoting your product. Because the topics are already filtered for you, every post is on trend and relevant, and because it writes in your voice, it sounds like you and not like everyone else. You review, tweak if you want, and publish. This is the part that compounds. Each week you ship on-trend content with no research, and over months and years that steady, relevant presence grows your audience far more than the odd lucky post ever could.
Watch list set
You pick a small group of players who research their audience well, and the bot watches them for you.
Posts read and logged
The bot reads each new post, pulls out the topic, research, and result, and logs it as a trend.
Filtered for you
Your AI keeps only the trends that fit your audience and products, and drops the rest with a reason.
Reach growing
A short list of on-trend topics arrives, gets written in your voice, and your audience keeps building.
Build this trend engine inside the same playbook 1,000+ students use
Automations Made Easy teaches the mechanics behind intelligence bots like this one. Step by step, no code, plain English. Save two hours a day and own a researcher that hands you on-trend topics every week.
The six months after I switched it on
Here is the shape of the first six months after I turned the competitor trend bot on. The line tracks the research hours saved as the bot took over the watching and reading, and as more of my content landed on trend each month, which is exactly how this machine pays off in practice.
Monthly research hours saved by a bot that watches the top players for you
Three things matter on this chart. The hours saved climb steadily as the bot watches more and I trust the short list more, not in a spike. The savings come from research I no longer do by hand. And every single one of those months happens while a bot handles the watching, the reading, and the filtering for me.
What other students built
I teach the simple skills behind machines like this in Automations Made Easy. Students who built their own version sent back what changed in their first month.
“I used to spend my mornings scrolling competitors to work out what to post. Now the bot does it and hands me a short list. I have posted more on-trend content this quarter than in the year before it.”
“The surprise was the filter. It does not just dump every trend on me, it tells me when something is not for my audience and why. People think I have a research team. I do not, my bot does.”
“I never knew what to post, so I posted nothing. One watch list fixed that. Now there is a short list of relevant topics waiting every week and I never opened a single feed to get them.”
“Knowing the first weeks were just setup kept me patient. By month three the bot was saving me most of a day a week and my content was finally landing on trend.”
What’s inside Automations Made Easy
AME isn’t a library of pre-built automations. Every business is slightly different. What’s reusable across all of them is the underlying mechanics: how to set up little machines that listen, write, and follow up while you sleep, and how to wire the pieces together without writing code.
The program walks you through six modules: The Right Tools (the cost-effective, no-code stack I actually use), Task Selection Mastery (which automations are worth building first), Design Secrets (mapping an automation before you build it), Zero to Hero (complete beginner to confident automator), Real-World Application (we build a full automation together, end to end), and Monetization Mastery (turn the skill into a side-business).
It also includes done-for-you templates you import in two clicks, over-the-shoulder training videos, and the same playbook 1,000+ students have used to save two hours a day. No coding required. If you can copy and paste, you can build this.
The competitor trend bot: common questions
Pulled from what readers and Automations Made Easy students ask most.
Do I need to be a developer to set this up?
No. Choosing who to watch is a judgement call, the breakdown and the filter are settings you fill in once, and after that the bot reads and logs on its own. You point, choose, and describe your audience and products in plain words. The skills you need are picking the right players and describing your audience clearly, which is exactly what Automations Made Easy teaches.
Is this just copying my competitors?
No. The bot reads what the top players post to spot the trend, the topic and audience need behind it, not the wording. Then your AI keeps only the trends that fit your audience and your products, and you write each one in your own voice for your own avatar. You end up posting on-trend topics in your style, not copies of anyone’s posts.
How does it know a trend is not relevant to me?
Because you tell it who you are. Your AI checks each trend against your audience, the products you sell, and the topics you are good at. When a trend does not match, it drops it and tells you plainly why, for example that the players were talking about this but you do not do that thing. So you only ever see topics that genuinely fit you.
How many players should I watch?
A small, well-chosen group beats a long list. You want a handful of people who genuinely research their audience and post what they find, so the trends are clear and not noisy. Quality of the watch list matters far more than the number of accounts. The first prompt on this page helps you choose who is worth watching and who to skip.
Will the content actually sound like me?
Yes, because the writing step works from your voice and your avatar, not a generic template. The bot finds and filters the topic, then writes it the way you write, pointing gently to your product. You review and tweak before publishing, so every post stays on trend and still sounds unmistakably like you.
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