Case Study

CRE Daily News Brief

An automated pipeline that collects, filters, and synthesizes commercial real estate news into a concise executive briefing — delivered to your inbox every morning.

Step 1
Collect
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RSS Feeds

Industry publications — Commercial Observer, Connect CRE, REBusiness, and more

🔍

Google News

Targeted keyword searches for deals, acquisitions, and market moves

🏢

Press Releases

Direct from company newsrooms — Blackstone, Prologis, CBRE, and others

Free
No API costs. Uses public RSS and web sources.
Step 2
Filter
🎯

Relevance Scoring & Deduplication

Each article is scored against your custom keyword clusters. Duplicates are removed, irrelevant stories are discarded, and only the most relevant content advances.

  • Scores hundreds of articles against your keyword clusters in seconds
  • Automatically deduplicates overlapping coverage across sources
  • Typically narrows 200+ raw articles down to the top 15
Free
Pure Python — no API calls, instant results.
Step 3
Enrich
📰

Full-Text Extraction

For articles that only had a headline or snippet, the system fetches the full article text — stripping ads, navigation, and boilerplate to capture just the content.

  • Extracts clean article text, stripping ads and navigation
  • Handles paywalled or gated content gracefully
Free
Direct HTTP — no third-party scraping service needed.
Step 4
Synthesize
🧠

AI-Powered Executive Summary

AI reads every article and produces a structured executive briefing — grouped by theme, highlighting key deals, players, and market trends.

  • Articles grouped by topic cluster with key deals and dollar amounts called out
  • Executive brief style — scannable in under 2 minutes
  • Source links included so you can dive deeper on any story
~$0.01–0.05 / run
Only step with API cost. Model is configurable for cost vs. quality.
Step 5
Deliver
✉️

Email

Direct to inbox, daily at your preferred time

💬

Slack

Posted to a channel via webhook

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Google Doc

Appended to a shared, searchable archive

Configurable
Choose one or combine multiple delivery channels.
~2 min
End-to-end runtime
<$3
Monthly cost
100%
Automated
Daily
Delivery cadence
⚙️

Fully Customizable — No Code Changes Required

Keywords & Topics Edit keyword clusters to track exactly the deals, sectors, and players you care about.
News Sources Add or remove RSS feeds, enable web search, or add company newsrooms to monitor.
Delivery Preferences Choose delivery time, channel (email/Slack/Doc), article count, and summary depth.
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