mi-collect-sigintlisted

# SIGINT Collection Sweep ## Purpose The wiretap you are allowed to have. Companies broadcast constantly through what they change on the public internet — a tier removed from a pricing page, a hero paragraph rewritten, an SSL certificate issued for a subdomain that does not exist yet, an app listing quietly gaining a keyword. Most competitors never listen. The signals are free, they are legal, and they arrive weeks ahead of the announcement. This is the freshest layer in competitive intelligence and therefore the one that decays fastest. It is what keeps a battle card from going stale, and it is the layer a card is wrong about first. The sweep produces a labeled inventory, not a verdict. **Collection is not fusion.** ## When to Use It Use it when something changed and nobody can say what it was before. Use it weekly, on a schedule, as the cheapest recurring intelligence available — thirty minutes buys the pricing, messaging, and posting layer. Use it when a launch is suspected and you want to know whether it is staged. Do not use it when: - **You need the pricing time series rather than this week's diff.** That is `mi-monitor-pricing-packaging`, which stores verbatim captures so next quarter's question is answerable. - **You want a full multi-competitor delta report.** That is `mi-watch-competitors`, which applies a materiality bar across a watchlist. - **No prior state exists anywhere.** Then this run is a *baseline capture*, not a diff, and it must say so — a first