Company Watch — Hourly Perplexity Alerts

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Sell-side analysts, competitive intelligence, corp dev, IR teams

Perplexityschedulingalert emailscompetitive intel

Sell-side analysts and competitive-intel teams open 8 tabs every morning to manually scan for news on tracked companies.
Most days nothing material happens — but the toil to confirm that costs an hour anyway.
Important moves (M&A, exec change, regulatory action, earnings pre-announce) get caught by whichever analyst happened to have the right tab open.
Slack channels fill with link-dumps. No one reads them. The signal is lost in the noise.

Drop a Perplexity API key into ~/.insightworker/.env — single line of config. PERPLEXITY_API_KEY · sonar-pro

Schedule the watcher with a cron expression: hourly during market hours, daily at 8 AM otherwise. cron "0 9-17 * * 1-5"

Run perplexity_search with recency=hour and a domain allowlist (Reuters, Bloomberg, FT, SEC.gov). perplexity_search · recency · domain_filter

Agent decides: did anything material appear? Product launch, M&A, exec change, regulatory action, big move. agent reasoning

If yes — send a structured HTML alert with bullets, citations, and the headline 'Material update'. send_email · html body

If nothing material — silently skip the send. Daily digest of skips logged for transparency. scheduler logs

"Monitor Apple Inc on the hour. Email me only when something material appears in the last hour."

Deliverables: schedules.yaml · alert emails (only on material updates) · ~/.insightworker/logs/<watcher>.log

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