Prototype

Tech Review Bot

What if…

we could automate our news review meeting by automatically collect all articles, analyze and aggregate them to an agenda for the next meeting?

Problem

Often researching, collecting and aggregating news is still a manual process. Of course it is manageable but minutes sum up to hours which sum up to days of wasted working hours. Every simple task which can be automated should be automated.

Solution

We introduced a slack-bot which monitors our tech-review channel and listens for posted links. The moment a link is posted, the slack bot archives the link and adds the link to a processing pipeline in which the content is downloaded, semantically analyzed and added to the agenda of the next tech-review meeting.

Challenges

The biggest challenge was to import the content in a generic way without configuring site-specific scrapers. This way we had to use a method for analyzing content which does not require structured data from a unified API.