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News Discovery

Surfaces the highest-signal market intelligence from 6 sources, scored for relevance to your practice area

Source types
6
Articles/cycle
200+
Schedule
Mon / Thu 6:00 PM EST
Type
Automated
Launch AgentView SpecificationAirtable

Pipeline

1
Multi-source discovery
2
Intelligent deduplication
3
Full-text extraction and scoring
4
Intelligence delivery

Overview

The most comprehensive news intelligence agent in the platform. Scans 6 independent source types to discover 200+ articles per cycle, then filters to the 40-60 that matter most for each Managing Director through a multi-stage scoring pipeline.

What This Replaces
Manual scanning of 6+ news sources per tracked company (15-20 min each, multiplied across the portfolio)
Copy-pasting articles into spreadsheets for tracking and distribution
Subjective relevance decisions without a consistent scoring framework
Missed coverage when analysts are on PTO, overloaded, or unfamiliar with a sector
Key Capabilities
3-layer deduplication: URL normalization, historical record check, AI semantic comparison
Multi-dimensional relevance scoring against proprietary IPA/FPA taxonomy
19 curated RSS feeds + real-time web search + Google results running in parallel
Full-text extraction via Firecrawl for deep content analysis beyond headlines
Automatic routing to BD Radar with per-MD relevance matching
Intelligence Depth

Every article is scored across two independent dimensions: Industry/Portfolio Alignment (how relevant is this to the companies you cover?) and Firm/Practice Alignment (does this connect to a BCG practice area or active engagement?). This dual-scoring ensures Managing Directors see articles that are both commercially relevant and strategically actionable — not just keyword matches. The two-model strategy uses fast, cost-efficient filtering for the initial 200+ articles, reserving deep analysis for the 40-60 that survive deduplication.

Data Sources

Perplexity
Serper
RSS feeds
Firecrawl
Claude
Groq

At a Glance

Source types6
Articles/cycle200+
Dedup layers3