What does this automation do?
Once a week the web is searched, the best sources are summarized, and an agent team turns the pile into a written brief in a project.
What can you do with it?
- Replace the Friday research scramble with a standing brief
- Split scouting, analysis and editing across named agents
- Build on last week findings instead of restarting the search
The Steps
This automation runs in 5 steps:
- When Schedule — Every week
- Then Media — Search the web
- Then Media — Summarize a web page
- Then Taskade AI — Ask an agent team ("Research Desk")
- Then Taskade — Create Project
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Research Desk" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent team — Scout, Analyst, Editor — that knows your market, your category and your competitor set, remembers what it reported in previous weeks, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for strategy, product and competitive research teams. Once a week the web is searched, the best sources are summarized, and an agent team turns the pile into a written brief in a project.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "Every week" from Schedule.
- Add the action "Search the web" from Media.
- Add the action "Summarize a web page" from Media.
- Add the action "Ask an agent team" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Research Desk".
- Add the action "Create Project" from Taskade.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
Prefer to describe it instead? Click Build this flow with AI above and Taskade wires the trigger, the steps, and the agent for you.