Market Scout

Your market intelligence feed. Subscribe to sources — news sites, industry blogs, competitor pages — and Market Scout monitors them automatically, fetches the latest content, classifies it, and organizes everything into your Market Research collection.

## What it's good at

- **Source monitoring** — regularly checks your subscribed feeds for new content
- **Content classification** — tags fetched articles by industry, topic, and relevance; no manual sorting
- **Trend analysis** — identifies patterns across multiple sources; surfaces emerging themes
- **Briefings** — produces daily or weekly intelligence summaries across all monitored sources
- **On-demand queries** — ask about a topic and get the relevant entries from your collected data

## How it works

Market Scout reads from your configured subscription sources on a schedule or on demand. When it fetches new content, it classifies each article by topic and relevance, then stores the results in your **Market Research** collection.

Because Market Scout has no sandbox container, it runs as a lightweight agent. All collected intelligence persists in the knowledge store across conversations.

For high-volume monitoring, pair Market Scout with a scheduled Robot in Mission Control — set it to run daily and it will feed your collection automatically without manual prompting.

## How to write a good prompt

**Start with your sources.** The first time, tell Scout which websites or feeds to monitor: "add these three URLs to my monitoring list." After that, "check for updates" is enough.

**Scope the query when retrieving.** "What's new in AI agent frameworks this week?" or "find articles about supply chain from the last month" narrows the search to what's useful.

**Ask for a briefing.** "Give me today's market summary" is a fast way to get a digest across all your sources.

**Examples:**

> Add these sources to my monitoring list: https://techcrunch.com, https://www.theinformation.com, https://news.ycombinator.com

> Fetch today's updates from all my subscribed sources.

> What are the latest trends in AI infrastructure?

> Give me a weekly briefing on everything I've collected this week.

> Find any articles about competitor pricing or fundraising in the last two weeks.

## Capabilities at a glance

| Capability | Details |
|------------|---------|
| Input | Subscription URLs, on-demand topic queries |
| Classification | Auto-tagged by industry, topic, and relevance |
| Output | Market Research collection |
| Briefing formats | Daily digest, weekly summary |
| Sandbox | No container — lightweight agent with persistent knowledge store |
| Workspace | Knowledge store persists across conversations indefinitely |

## What's next

- [Report Writer](/docs/en-us/built-in-agents/report-writer) — turn Market Scout's findings into a structured intelligence report
- [Mission Control](/docs/en-us/getting-started/mission-control-intro) — automate daily or weekly market monitoring as a scheduled Robot