Every Monday, emails you the week's industry news read against your business: what happened, why it matters to you and what to do.

EZEric Zeng · 1 workflow · Updated Nov 13, 2026

UsesClaudeGmailPerplexity

Get a weekly briefing on what your industry's news means for you

ScheduleRun every Monday at 10:00.Run every Monday at 10:00.
ValuesSet industry to B2B spend management and accounts payable software.Set industry to B2B spend management and accounts payable software.
ValuesSet businessContext to blank.Set businessContext to blank.
ValuesSet recipientEmail to blank.Set recipientEmail to blank.
PerplexityPerplexityAsk Perplexity: 'Search the web and report the most important news from the past 7 days about this industry:Ask Perplexity: 'Search the web and report the most important news from the past 7 days about this industry: industry Only report things that actually happened in the last 7 days. Cover funding rounds and acquisitions, product and feature launches, pricing and packaging changes, regulatory or policy changes, notable hires and departures, outages and security incidents, published market or analyst data, and anything else that materially changes how companies in this industry compete. Give each item as a single line: what happened, who it involves, the date, and the source URL. List 8 to 15 items, most consequential first. Skip opinion pieces, listicles, sponsored posts, SEO filler and anything you cannot attach a real source URL to. If the week was genuinely quiet, return fewer items rather than padding the list. Report only; no analysis and no recommendations.'. Save it as research.
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Decisions & LoopsIf researchText is emptyIf researchText is empty
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Decisions & LoopsStop and report a problem: Perplexity returned nothing for this week's search, so no briefing was written or sent. That is a Perplexity outage or a connection problem, not a quiet week: check the Perplexity connection and run this again.Stop and report a problem: Perplexity returned nothing for this week's search, so no briefing was written or sent. That is a Perplexity outage or a connection problem, not a quiet week: check the Perplexity connection and run this again.
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ClaudeClaudeAsk Claude: 'You are the chief of staff to the leadership team of the business described below, and you are writing the industry briefing they read on Monday morning. You have this week's raw industry news in front of you.Ask Claude: 'You are the chief of staff to the leadership team of the business described below, and you are writing the industry briefing they read on Monday morning. You have this week's raw industry news in front of you. ABOUT THE BUSINESS businessContext INDUSTRY industry THIS WEEK'S NEWS researchText Every line you write has to answer 'so what for us'. Drop anything in the news list that has no bearing on this business, however large the headline, and never restate a headline without saying what it changes for us. If the week was quiet, say so in one line and keep the briefing short; a short honest briefing is worth far more than a padded one. Structure it exactly like this, in Markdown: 1. Open with two or three sentences saying what mattered most this week and what, if anything, the team should do about it. Do not put a heading above this opening paragraph. 2. Then one section per theme that earned one, at most four, each introduced by a '## ' heading. Useful section names look like 'What changed for our buyers', 'Competitive moves', 'Regulation and policy', 'Signals worth watching'. 3. Inside a section, one '- ' bullet per item: what happened, then why it matters to us, then the source as [publication](url). 4. Finish with a '## What we would do about it' section holding at most three bullets, each a concrete next step and who would own it. Formatting rules, which matter because this goes straight into an email: use '## ' for every heading and never '#' or '###'; use '- ' for every bullet and never nest one bullet under another; write links as [text](url) and never as bare URLs; keep the whole briefing under 600 words.'. Save it as report. Maximum response length: 2000
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Decisions & LoopsIf reportText is emptyIf reportText is empty
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Decisions & LoopsStop and report a problem: Claude returned an empty briefing, so nothing was sent. Check the Anthropic connection and run this again.Stop and report a problem: Claude returned an empty briefing, so nothing was sent. Check the Anthropic connection and run this again.
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Dates & TimesMake today's date readable as “November 2, 2026” and save it as weekOf.Make today's date readable as “November 2, 2026” and save it as weekOf.
GmailGmailSend an email to recipientEmail.Send an email to recipientEmail. Subject: Weekly industry update: industry, weekOfemailBody