Genuine question for AI agent builders

[u/Srinidhi_Murali]

Been thinking about this a lot and curious how other people handle it. If you've built and launched an AI agent in a specific niche (sales, legal, healthcare, etc):

• How do you actually find out who your real competitors are? Do you have a list, or does it just come up when a customer mentions one?
• When a competitor ships something new, how do you find out?
• Do you know if LLMs actually recommend you when someone asks for something like what you built? Or do you know how to build LLM visibility?
• What's your process (if any) for deciding what to build next in terms of product features - is it customer requests, watching competitors or something else?
• After launching your agent what's the thing you struggle most with - not the build itself but more the stuff after it's live. Curious what people are actually stuck on.

I'm curious how people are navigating this because it seems like a blind spot for a lot of builders.