| Research Task | Manual Effort | Automated |
|---|---|---|
| Scan 6 source types for company news | 2-3 hours | < 5 minutes |
| Deduplicate articles across sources | 45 minutes | Automatic (3-layer) |
| Extract full article text for analysis | 1-2 hours | Automatic (Firecrawl) |
| Score relevance per Managing Director | Subjective / skipped | Dual-taxonomy AI scoring |
| Route articles to the right recipients | 30 minutes | Automatic per-MD matching |