Monitor industry news topics and get AI summaries in Slack

Scans news feeds for topics you care about and posts short AI-written summaries straight to Slack.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs; runs once per one per new article.

Pattern: Multiple Instances without a priori Run-Time Knowledge (15) ยท Parallel Split (2)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
SlackOpenAIGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

You want to stay on top of industry news but don't have time to scroll through dozens of articles every day. Important updates get buried in your inbox or lost among newsletters. By the time you notice something relevant, it's old news.

Who it fits

Teams or professionals who need to track ongoing developments in their industry.

How it works

  1. Checks selected news feeds on a regular schedule
  2. Compares new articles against ones already reviewed to skip duplicates
  3. Uses AI to judge whether each article is relevant to your topics
  4. Pulls the full article text and writes a short summary
  5. Posts the summary to your Slack channel and logs it in a spreadsheet
What you get

Developments you catch without watching the feed

You get short, AI-written summaries of the industry news that matters, posted straight to your team's Slack channel as it happens.

What you get

A running feed of AI-written article summaries in Slack, with a spreadsheet record of what's been covered.

What you need

A Slack workspace, an OpenAI API key, and a Google Sheets account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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