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Trend Analysis Digest

Example prompt: "Every Monday, search for the latest news in fintech, identify the top 3 emerging trends, and post a summary to #industry-trends on Slack."

How to automate trend analysis with GloriaMundo

The Problem

Staying on top of industry trends requires reading dozens of articles, newsletters, and reports every week. Most professionals either spend hours on it and still miss things, or do not do it at all and rely on secondhand information that arrives weeks late. When someone does compile a trends briefing, it is usually ad hoc, inconsistent in depth, and shaped by whichever articles happened to appear in their feed rather than a systematic scan. The result is a team that reacts to trends instead of anticipating them.

How GloriaMundo Solves It

We build a scheduled workflow that runs every Monday morning. A web search step scans for recent news, articles, and reports across your chosen industry — fintech, healthtech, SaaS, whatever matters to your business. It casts a wide net, pulling from news sites, industry blogs, and analyst commentary. An LLM step reads through the collected results, identifies recurring themes and emerging topics, and distils them into the top 3 trends with supporting evidence and source links. It also notes any notable shifts from the previous week's report. An integration step posts the formatted digest to your chosen Slack channel, and a second integration step saves the full report to a Google Doc for archival and future reference. Glass Box preview shows you the search results and the drafted digest before anything is posted, so you can adjust the industry focus or number of trends.

Example Workflow Steps

  1. Trigger (scheduled): Runs every Monday at 8:00 AM.
  2. Step 1 (web_search): Search for the latest news, articles, and analyst commentary in the target industry from the past 7 days.
  3. Step 2 (llm): Analyse the search results, identify the top 3 emerging trends, and write a concise digest with supporting evidence and source links.
  4. Step 3 (integration): Post the formatted trend digest to #industry-trends on Slack.
  5. Step 4 (integration): Save the full report to a Google Doc in a shared trends folder for archival.

Integrations Used

  • Google Docs — stores the full trend report for long-term reference and team access
  • Slack — delivers the weekly digest to the team so it is seen first thing on Monday

Who This Is For

Strategy leads, product managers, and founders who need to track industry movements systematically rather than relying on whatever articles happen to cross their desk. Particularly useful for teams that make product or investment decisions based on market direction.

Time & Cost Saved

A thorough manual trend scan — reading articles, identifying patterns, and writing a summary — takes 2-4 hours per week when done properly. Most people skip weeks or do a superficial version. This workflow delivers a consistent, well-sourced digest every Monday for a few credits per run. Over a quarter, that is 25-50 hours of research and writing replaced, with the added benefit of never missing a week.