Gather

External Stream Monitoring

Never miss a signal in the outside world.

Autonomously watches a configured set of external sources — regulators, competitors, news, patents, tenders — and delivers only the items that match your relevance spec. Frees analysts from manual scanning and ensures no material development slips through between check-ins.

Shape

Operational dimensions

No human in loop

Runs without a person in the path.

Continuous

Always running.

Low data gravity

Light state; replaceable any time.

Read-only inbound

Consumes external data; does not write back.

Inputs

External source set (URLs, feeds, API endpoints)
Relevance specification (watchlist terms, query, classifier)
Crawl schedule and frequency config
Deduplication window to suppress re-alerts

Outputs

Relevance-scored matched item stream
Alert events per matched item with source provenance
Digest payload (batched matched items per interval)
Source health / crawl-failure status log

Mechanism

Polls a defined set of external sources on a schedule, filters incoming items against a relevance specification (watchlist, query, topic model), and emits matched items as an alert/digest stream.

Why this is a primitive

Cannot be decomposed — the poll-filter-emit cycle over external sources is one operation. It is not active analyst-driven search (research-corpus-assembly), not artefact parsing (document-intake), not own-event ingestion (event-stream-capture). The relevance filter is part of the ingestion mechanism; without filter you have a raw firehose, not a monitoring primitive.

Where it shows up

Regulatory compliance team — monitors government gazette and regulator publications, surfaces new rules matching the firm's product lines within hours of publication

Competitive intelligence team — watches competitor newsrooms, patent filings, and job boards, delivers a daily digest of strategic signals

Procurement team — scans tender portals across jurisdictions, alerts category managers when a matching opportunity is posted

Cybersecurity function — monitors threat-intel feeds and CVE streams, triggers an alert when a vulnerability matches the org's technology stack

Related primitives

Composes with

Analyst-Driven Research Corpus Assembly →Inbound Document Intake →

Alternative to

Analyst-Driven Research Corpus Assembly →