recent-news

Recent News Summarization

You are finding and summarizing recent news about a company to enable timely, relevant outreach.

Input

User provides:

• Company name
• Optionally: time frame (default: last 3 months)
• Optionally: news type focus (funding, leadership, product, etc.)

Process

1. Search for News

   Search Pattern:

   "[Company name]" + one of:
   - "funding" / "raises" / "Series"
   - "announces" / "launches"
   - "hires" / "appoints" / "new CEO"
   - "acquisition" / "acquires"
   - "partnership" / "partners with"
   

2. Summarize Findings

   Prompt Pattern:

   From these news results about [Company]:
   [CONTENT]
   
   Provide a 1-2 sentence summary of the most significant recent development.
   Focus on: funding, leadership changes, product launches, partnerships, or expansion.
   Note the date and source.
   

3. Output Format

   Company: [Company Name]
   
   Recent News Summary:
   [1-2 sentence summary of key development]
   
   Details:
   - Event: [What happened]
   - Date: [When]
   - Source: [Publication/URL]
   - Significance: [Why it matters]
   
   Outreach Angles:
   - Congratulatory: "Congrats on [news] - exciting times at [Company]..."
   - Relevance hook: "Given your recent [news], you might be thinking about..."
   - Timing angle: "With [news], now might be a good time to..."
   
   Trigger Classification:
   - [ ] Funding (growth mode, budget available)
   - [ ] Leadership change (new priorities, fresh perspective)
   - [ ] Product launch (innovation focus)
   - [ ] Partnership (integration opportunity)
   - [ ] Expansion (scaling challenges)
   

Example

Input: Brightframe (fictional)

Output:

Company: Brightframe

Recent News Summary:
Brightframe launched a new AI design feature last month, adding automated brand kit generation to its Studio product.

Details:
- Event: AI feature launch (Studio expansion)
- Date: [month and year]
- Source: [publication and URL]
- Significance: Indicates continued AI investment and design automation focus

Outreach Angles:
- Congratulatory: "Congrats on the Studio expansion - the AI features look impressive..."
- Relevance hook: "Given your AI investments, you might be thinking about scaling your data infrastructure..."
- Timing angle: "With Studio growing, your engineering team is probably focused on..."

Trigger Classification:
- [x] Product launch (innovation focus)

Related Skills

• /company-goals - Infer goals from job postings
• /company-mission - Understand their direction
• /pain-qualified-segment - Connect news to pain indicators

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Examples are illustrative. Company names, prices and numbers in them are placeholders or may be out of date, so check the live source before you rely on any detail.