🎮 The Next Input — Issue #038

An AI That Remembers Everything You've Ever Read

Aaron Bost
August 22, 2025

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

Google’s AI Mode expands globally with new agentic features. Every day, a new frontier update lands.
South Park torches Trump, AI, and tech bros. If South Park flames you, you’re big time.
Manus AI reports $90M annualized revenue. Manus makes money. Full stop.

🛠️ The Playbook — AI-Powered Competitor Intelligence Digest

Mission Track your top 5 competitors, summarise their product updates, press hits, and hiring moves into a weekly 2-minute digest.
Difficulty Advanced | Build time 80 min
ROI BD & strategy teams save ≈ 12 h/week otherwise spent scanning feeds.

Step	Action
1	Trigger – Zapier Schedule → every Friday 08:00.
2	Sources – RSS feeds, Google News alerts, and LinkedIn job postings for each competitor.
3	Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Prompt: “Cluster competitor updates by type (product, PR, hiring, funding). Summarise in ≤150 words with 2 bullets each. Flag strategic risks/opportunities.”
4	Google Docs – Update `/Strategy/Competitor Digest {Week}`.
5	Slack Push – Send digest to #leadership channel.
6	Notion Sync – Append highlights to `/Competitor Tracker DB`.
7	Fail-safe – If a source fails, log “⚠ Source offline” in digest footer.

Pro tip: Add a “signal strength” score (0–5) for each update so execs can scan by impact.

📈 The Strategy Guide — This Week’s Deep Dive

Your Personal AI Librarian
Turn Pocket’s “digital graveyard” into a living, queryable brain

You’ve probably saved thousands of articles to Pocket, Instapaper, or your browser bookmarks. But let’s be honest—most of that knowledge is dead weight. It sits there, unsearchable, unstructured, and largely forgotten. What if you could resurrect it?

This week’s Strategy Guide is a complete blueprint for transforming that graveyard into a living, breathing AI Librarian. Instead of scrolling through endless titles or running hopeless keyword searches, you’ll have a semantic assistant that:

Understands your question in natural language.
Retrieves the most relevant passages across dozens of articles.
Synthesises an answer in your voice—citing back to the originals.

The best part? You can build a working V1 in under two hours with no code. From there, you can scale it into a personalised research brain that actually improves over time.

Think of it as a miniature “Company Brain” tuned just for you—a permanent research assistant that remembers everything you’ve ever cared enough to save, and brings it back in seconds when you need it most.

[Click here to read the full Strategy Guide]

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts

Asset	What it does	Link
Feedly AI	Curates niche feeds & competitor alerts.	https://feedly.com/ai
Supabase	Easy vector DB for storing embeddings.	https://supabase.com
Flowise	Drag-and-drop orchestration for retrieval workflows.	https://flowiseai.com
Prompt · Executive Digest	Turns raw articles → Slack-ready digest.

Summarise these competitor updates into 3 bullets: product, hiring, PR. Flag 1 opportunity + 1 risk. ≤180 words.

💡 Free Office Hours

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🕹️ Game Over

Ship one competitor-digest workflow tonight—tomorrow your exec team will thank you.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #039.

— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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