Weekly Industry News Digest Agent

Curated Industry Intelligence for Every Department

Staying current on industry developments is critical, but no one has time to read everything. This Zapier-powered agent handles it by running a weekly news sweep tailored to a specific topic or department, curating the most relevant articles from a variety of sources, and delivering a formatted digest directly to Slack.

Each digest has a dated header and includes up to 6 articles, each with source attribution, a direct link, and a 1-2 paragraph summary written for practitioners — not just headlines, but the key information a specialist actually needs to know. An SEO digest covers algorithm changes and best practice shifts. A PR digest covers media landscape developments. An AI digest covers model releases, funding rounds, and policy changes. The agent adapts its focus and editorial lens to match the audience.

One Agent Per Team, Consistent Format

The system is designed as a series of agents — one per department or topic area — each posting to its own Slack channel on a weekly schedule. The format stays consistent across all of them: dated header, numbered articles, source and link, and a substantive summary. Every team gets the same quality of briefing without anyone having to manually curate or write up the news.

We set the digest up for each team: choose the topic and editorial focus, the sources to favor, and the Slack channel it posts to. Because each agent is independent, adding another topic is as simple as configuring another instance with different search parameters and pointing it at the right channel.