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title: Monitoring & Automated Research
description: A scheduled agent that watches sources you care about, researches what changed, and reports back — on its own.
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Build a system that runs on a schedule, checks the sources you care about, researches what's new, and delivers a synthesized report — competitor moves, market signals, anything worth watching — without you asking each time.

<WhatYouWillLearn
  items={[
    { title: 'Run on a schedule', body: 'Trigger a workflow on a timer so the work happens on its own.' },
    { title: 'Research with tools', body: 'Let an agent search the web, read pages, and synthesize findings.' },
    { title: 'Deliver the result', body: 'Post a summary to Slack or save a report file each run.' },
  ]}
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    { title: 'The problem', time: '0:00' },
    { title: 'Schedule trigger', time: '0:35' },
    { title: 'Research with tools', time: '1:25' },
    { title: 'Synthesize findings', time: '2:20' },
    { title: 'Deliver the report', time: '3:10' },
  ]}
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## What you'll build

A **Schedule trigger** kicks the workflow off. An **Agent** block with search tools gathers and reads sources, synthesizes what changed, and a final step delivers it — a Slack message, or a saved report [file](/academy/files/intro).

This composes [workflows](/academy/workflows/intro), [agents](/academy/agents/intro), and [files](/academy/files/intro).
