Research & monitoring
Competitor moves, supplier options, industry news, public mentions - the research your team knows it should do and never finds time for. Olano runs it as standing briefs: an agent searches on your schedule, summarizes what changed with sources attached, and delivers the digest where your team already works. Start with one workflow and be live in days, not months.
A brief is defined once, then repeated the same way every time. These four are the usual first workflows.
What did the competitors you care about do this week? Launches, pricing changes, campaigns, and announcements condensed into one digest.
Evaluating tools, vendors, or suppliers? The agent gathers candidates against your criteria and returns a shortlist you can compare.
Public reviews and mentions of your business, watched continuously and flagged for a human reply - the agent never responds on its own.
The regulation, market, and industry stories that affect your business - filtered and summarized before your week starts.
You define the brief once: the questions to answer, the sources to prefer, what counts as noise, and when it should arrive. From then on it runs as a scheduled task - the agent searches with web-research and news connectors, filters what is new since the last run, writes a summary with the sources attached, and delivers it to WhatsApp, Slack, or email.
Persistent memory means the agent remembers previous runs, so a digest tells you what changed rather than repeating last week's list. Ground it in your uploaded documents - price lists, product specs, client SOPs - and summaries use your terms and your context. Once a brief format works, it is saved as a skill and repeated the same way every time.
On Olano's trust scale of 0-4, research sits at level 0-1 - Observer to Assistant. The agent reads public sources and writes digests that land in your own inbox; there is no customer-facing action to get wrong. That makes a standing brief the natural fully-hands-off starting point for a first agent.
The moment a finding calls for action - replying to a review, emailing a supplier, posting anything - that step crosses into outbound territory and waits for explicit human approval by default. Every action, including the reads, is recorded in an immutable audit trail.
AI usage runs on a transparent meter with a hard spend cap agreed before launch, so a daily brief cannot surprise you at month-end. Each customer gets an isolated workspace with encrypted connector tokens, and you can bring your own model keys at no extra cost.
Under the hood the platform offers 450+ connector tools and 75+ built-in integrations, so the same agent that researches can later grow into gated workflows - once it has earned the trust.
A marketing agency runs Olano agents for government-tender intelligence, media monitoring, and research digests that feed directly into client deliverables.
These reports are excellent. Thank you so much!
The insights the agents generate are so useful for our decision-making.
Yes. Every digest links the sources it drew from, so your team can verify a claim before acting on it. A summary you cannot check is a summary you cannot use in client work.
On whatever schedule you set - daily, weekly, or monthly. Olano's scheduled tasks and proactive monitoring handle recurring jobs and overnight runs, so a Monday-morning digest is prepared before your week starts.
Wherever your team already works. Olano supports 15+ messaging channels; research digests are most often delivered to WhatsApp, Slack, or email.
Yes. The agent can monitor public reviews and mentions of your business and flag items that need a human reply. It never replies on its own.
No. This workflow produces digests and flags - it is read-only. Anything outbound, like a reply to a review or an email to a supplier, waits for human approval by default and is recorded in an audit trail.
Where research fits alongside the rest of your own team of agents.
A practical guide to setting up a competitor brief: what to track, how to filter, and how to keep digests honest.
Turn research findings into drafts that queue for approval before anything is published.
The same approval-first pattern applied to email: triage, drafts, and follow-ups with a human in the loop.
Bring one standing question - a competitor, a market, your own reviews. In a consultation we map the brief, quote it before we build, and typically have it live within 1-2 business days of onboarding.
