Build Content Feeds That Think
Information overload is real. RSS readers, news aggregators, content dashboards—they all dump data without intelligence.
Genesis creates feeds that understand.
Describe what you need:
"Build a competitor monitoring feed that tracks industry news, product launches, and pricing changes from these 20 sources, and highlight anything mentioning AI or automation"
Your feed appears—intelligent, filtered, organized.
What You Can Build
- RSS Aggregators - Multi-source feeds with smart filtering
- News Monitors - Industry tracking with AI-powered summaries
- Content Hubs - Curated collections that update automatically
- Research Feeds - Academic, market, or competitive intelligence
- Social Trackers - Brand mentions, hashtags, trend monitoring
Intelligence Built In
Static feeds show everything. Genesis feeds show what matters:
🧠 Smart Filtering - AI agents curate based on your criteria
📊 Auto-Summaries - Key points extracted automatically
🔔 Intelligent Alerts - Notifications for what's actually important
⚡ Connected Actions - Trigger workflows from feed items
Your Information, Organized
Stop drowning in content. Let Genesis build feeds that surface the signal from the noise.
Information that works for you, not against you.
📚 Resources & Getting Started
🚀 Get Started
- Build a Feed Now → — Open Genesis with one click
- Create Your First App — Step-by-step tutorial
- Community Gallery — Browse content aggregation apps
🔗 Related Pages
- AI App Builder — Full Genesis capabilities
- Workflow Automation — Auto-process feed items
- Vibe Coding — Build with conversation
The Mechanism: One Trigger, Many Sources, an AI Step in the Middle
A Taskade feed is an automation, not a reader app. That distinction is the whole point: a reader shows you everything and leaves the sorting to you, whereas an automation can decide what deserves your attention before it ever reaches you.
The building block is the New Item in Feed trigger from the RSS connector. One trigger watches as many feed URLs as you give it - your competitors' blogs, a status page, an industry publication, a subreddit, a YouTube channel - and fires once per new item. A Test control fetches live items so you can confirm a source parses before you switch anything on, which matters because plenty of publishers ship malformed feeds.
What happens after the trigger is where a Taskade feed stops resembling an RSS reader:
| Step | What it does | Why it matters for a feed |
|---|---|---|
| Summarize Website / Scrape Webpage | Pulls and condenses the linked article, not just the excerpt | Most feeds only publish a teaser; this gets the substance |
| AI Categorize | Tags each item against categories you define | "Pricing change" vs "product launch" vs "ignore" |
| Filter | Drops items that fail a condition | The single highest-value step - it is what makes the feed quiet |
| Structured Output | Extracts named fields into a consistent shape | Turns prose into rows you can sort and chart |
| Agent step | Hands the item to an agent that knows your business | "Does this affect our roadmap?" answered with your context |
| Add Task / Update Fields | Writes the item into a project | The feed becomes searchable, assignable work |
| Slack / Gmail / Sheets actions | Delivers the result where you already look | No new app to remember to open |
Add a Schedule trigger alongside it - it can run every few minutes, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly - and the same machinery produces a digest instead of a stream.
Three Feeds Worth Building
Competitor watch. RSS trigger on six competitor blogs and changelogs. Summarize Website pulls the full post. AI Categorize tags each as pricing, product, hiring, or noise. A filter drops the noise. Anything tagged pricing posts to a Slack channel immediately; everything else lands in a Competitors project you review weekly.
Prompt to start from: "Watch these six feeds, summarise each new post in two sentences, tag it as pricing, product, hiring, or other, drop anything tagged other, post pricing items to Slack right away and log the rest to a project."
Morning research digest. Schedule trigger at 7am. A Find Tasks step gathers everything that landed in the research project overnight. An AI step writes one paragraph of what changed and why it matters. An action emails it and posts it to Slack. You read one paragraph instead of forty headlines.
Self-updating knowledge base. This is the Knowledge Kit pattern: a Knowledge Hub project holds the material, an RSS-powered automation writes new items into it, and a custom agent is connected to that live project as knowledge. Because the agent re-reads the project on every reply, it gets more current every day with no retraining step. Ask it "what changed in our space this month?" and it answers from what the feed collected.
What You Can Watch
- RSS and Atom feeds - blogs, changelogs, status pages, job boards, press rooms, podcast feeds, and anything else that publishes one.
- YouTube channels - a channel-based content trigger, plus a Transcribe YouTube action so a video becomes searchable text.
- Forms and mail - a form submission or an incoming email can seed the same pipeline as a feed item.
- Connected services - triggers across the 100+ integration catalog pull events in from Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Reddit, Typeform, Linear and more.
- The open web - a Search Web step lets an agent go and look rather than waiting for a publisher to push.
- Anything with an API - the HTTP Request action and incoming webhooks cover sources with no connector.
Common Questions About AI Feeds
Can Taskade read RSS feeds?
Yes. The RSS connector provides a New Item in Feed trigger that fires when new content appears in any feed you track, and a single trigger can watch several feed URLs at once. A Test control fetches live items so you can confirm a source is returning what you expect before you build the rest of the automation on top of it.
How is this different from Feedly or Inoreader?
A reader is optimized for browsing everything; a Taskade feed is optimized for surfacing only what matters and then doing something about it. The practical difference is the middle of the pipeline: summarize the linked article, categorize it, filter out the noise, and route the survivors to Slack, email, a project, or an agent. You end up reading less rather than reading faster.
Can it summarize articles automatically?
Yes. A Summarize Website or Scrape Webpage step fetches the linked page rather than relying on the feed excerpt, and an AI step condenses it to whatever length you specify. For video sources, a Transcribe YouTube action turns the episode into text that the same summarization step can process.
How often does the feed check for new items?
The RSS trigger fires on new items as they are detected. If you would rather batch, pair a Schedule trigger with the pipeline - it supports intervals from every few minutes through hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly - so you get one digest at a fixed time instead of a running stream.
Can I get a daily digest by email or in Slack?
Yes, and it is the most common build. Schedule trigger, a step that gathers what arrived, an AI step that writes the summary, then Gmail and Slack actions to deliver it. Because 100+ integrations flow both ways, the same digest can also write to Google Sheets or create tasks for anything that needs a follow-up.
Is there a limit on how many sources I can track?
One RSS trigger can watch multiple feed URLs, and you can run multiple automations. The limit worth planning around is runs rather than sources: the Free plan includes 10 automation flow runs a month, so a high-volume feed needs a paid plan. Pro is $10/mo billed annually. The Loop action, if you process a batch, is a bounded pass with a ceiling of 500 actions per run.
Can the feed feed an AI agent?
Yes, and it is the best reason to build one. Connect the project your feed writes into as knowledge for a custom agent, and the agent re-reads that live project on every reply. No retraining, no re-upload. Ask it what changed this week and it answers from material collected while you were doing something else.
Do I need to code any of this?
No. Triggers, AI steps, and actions are configured from a panel, and you can describe the workflow you want in plain English to have it generated. If you do need something the catalog does not cover, the HTTP Request action and incoming webhooks are there without dropping into a codebase.
Can I publish the feed for other people to read?
Yes. Describe the reading interface you want to Taskade Genesis and it builds a live app on top of the same project - a filterable news hub, a client-facing briefing page, an internal research portal. Published apps get free hosting, a secure address, built-in visitor analytics, and optional password protection. A branded custom domain is available on Pro and above.
Is it free to build a feed?
Yes to start. Taskade has a free plan with 10 automation flow runs a month. Free starts with no AI credits: earn credits or buy a credit pack. Continuous monitoring of busy sources needs a paid plan; Pro is $10/mo billed annually.
Keep Going
- Build your feed now
- RSS connector documentation
- Browse live apps to clone
- AI Workflow Automation - the full trigger and action catalog
- AI Second Brain - where a feed's output belongs
- RSS is not dead, it is learning
- See plans and pricing