Workflow recipes
A workflow is several templates in order, each reading what the last one produced. These eight are the arrangements that earn their keep. Every step names a template that is in the library right now, so each recipe is something you can build today rather than a diagram of something we would like to exist.
News triage workflow
A three-step workflow that tells you what a story actually is, whether it touches you, and what to do about it — so a long article becomes a yes or a no.
3 steps
Competitive intelligence workflow
A workflow that turns a competitor's news into the effect on your position, the opening it leaves, and the briefing you would give a leadership team.
3 steps
Regulation monitoring workflow
A workflow that reads policy and legal news for what it obliges you to do, by when, and who inside the organisation owns it.
3 steps
Multi-model analysis workflow
A workflow that runs the same question through more than one provider and then has a third step look at where the two disagree.
3 steps
Cheap model first workflow
A workflow that screens with a small fast model and only sends what survives to a large one, so most articles never reach the expensive step.
2 steps
Executive briefing workflow
A workflow that reads a story from three seats at once — chief executive, finance, and the board — so the briefing already answers the questions each of them will ask.
3 steps
Document review workflow
A workflow for contracts, proposals and reports: the obligations it creates, and then an adversarial pass over what it is quietly not saying.
2 steps
Client news monitoring workflow
A workflow for people who advise: what a story means for the client, whether it is a problem, and whether it is a reason to call.
3 steps
Before you copy one
Most of these read your profile. A workflow judging whether a story is relevant with nothing to measure relevance against will say yes to almost everything, so the single highest-value thing to do first is fill in what you do and your industry on your profile. The workflow guide explains how steps pass work to each other.