Scan industry news daily and send AI summaries to Slack

Every day the system scans news sites for relevant articles, summarizes them with AI, and posts key highlights to Slack.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per matched article.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsMessaging & NotificationsReporting & AnalyticsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
FirecrawlOpenAISlack

The problem it solves

You don't have time to scan dozens of news sites every day looking for what matters to your business. Important updates slip by while you're busy running things, and by the time you hear about them secondhand, you're already behind.

Who it fits

A marketing, research, or product team that needs to stay on top of industry news without spending hours reading.

How it works

  1. Every day, the system scans selected websites for new articles
  2. It matches articles against your chosen keywords and topics
  3. AI reads the best matches and writes a short summary of each
  4. The summaries are posted straight to your Slack channel
What you get

Industry headlines surfaced before anyone goes looking

Every day you get a Slack digest of the industry news that matters, already summarized so you can skim it fast.

What you get

A daily Slack message with summarized links to the most relevant industry news.

What you need

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

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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