Get a daily industry news digest
A short morning brief on your market, filtered by what your company actually cares about.
An industry news digest is only useful if it's short and yours. This workflow scans your market every morning (news, competitor announcements, funding rounds, regulatory changes) and posts a briefing to Slack that fits in one coffee: five to ten items, each with a one-line summary and a note on why it matters to your company specifically.
What does this workflow do?
You tell the workflow what to watch: topics, competitor names, technologies, customer industries. Each morning the agent searches fresh coverage, filters out the noise and the duplicates, and writes a digest.
The "why it matters" line is what separates this from a Google Alert. The agent knows your positioning, your customers and your roadmap from your connected tools, so it reads the news the way a well-briefed analyst would: "Competitor X raised a Series B and named your category in the announcement" gets flagged as significant. A generic industry roundup does not.
How does it work?
- Set the watchlist and the schedule. Topics, companies, keywords and sources to prioritize or exclude. Pick delivery time and channel.
- The agent scans every morning. News sites, company blogs, funding databases and announcement pages, deduplicated across outlets covering the same story.
- It filters by relevance to you. Grounded in your company context, it keeps what touches your market, customers or competitors, and drops the rest.
- It writes the digest. Each item: headline, one-line summary, source link, and why it matters for your company. Big stories get two extra sentences.
- It posts and archives. The digest lands in Slack or your inbox, and an archive builds in Notion so "when did we first see this trend?" has an answer.
What makes this better than a newsletter?
Industry newsletters cover the industry's median reader. Your team needs the intersection of the industry and your strategy. The digest sharpens with feedback: when someone reacts to an item or tells the agent "less funding news, more regulatory," tomorrow's edition reflects it. Memory keeps the calibration.
Anyone on the team can also reply to a digest item with a follow-up question ("who else invests in this space?") and the agent answers in the thread, with sources.
Works with
Web, Slack, Gmail, Notion. Runs every morning, or weekly if your market moves slower.
Frequently asked questions
How do I control what's in the digest?
Set topics, company names and keywords at creation, then steer it with feedback. Telling the agent "skip conference roundups" or reacting to items you like tunes future editions. The watchlist is editable any time.
Does it deduplicate stories covered by many outlets?
Yes. One story, one item, with the best source linked. Follow-up coverage of a story you already saw only reappears when something material changed.
Can different teams get different digests?
Yes. Run multiple copies of the template: a competitive digest for product, a customer-industry digest for sales. Each keeps its own watchlist and memory.
What time and where does it arrive?
You choose. Most teams post it to a Slack channel before the workday starts. Email delivery via Gmail works too, and every edition archives to Notion.
Can I ask follow-up questions about an item?
Yes. Reply in the Slack thread and the agent answers with sources, or spins the question into a deeper research task if the answer needs real digging.