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Workshop · Vancouver B.C.
GRM-24 · Web app · Working prototype

Triage

Flags the news each client needs to see, against plain-English rules.

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News feeds
15 min
Scan cycle
Triage's queue: news stories scored against three sample clients' mandates, two ticked and a short note ready to compose.
Fig. 1 · Real screen, sample clients and stories
Triage's Drafts tab with a proposed email for a sample ferry operator, one story struck out, and a second draft for a sample energy company.
Fig. 2 · Real screen, sample clients: drafts: a ready-made email per client, twice a day, to approve, trim or skip
Triage's compose window showing a finished client email with a short note, two story summaries and source links.
Fig. 3 · Real screen, sample clients: the email it builds: your line on top, the stories, the sources, ready to paste
Triage's Flagged tab listing past sends grouped by sample client and date.
Fig. 4 · Real screen, sample clients: flagged: a record of what went to which client, and when

Features

  • Every client's mandate becomes a plain-English question, asked of every story.
  • Nothing sends itself: the advisor ticks, writes one note and copies the email.

A Spec sheet

Does
Reads the news every 15 minutes and asks one question of each story for each client: would this client's lead want to see it?
Rules
Each client's mandate is a plain-English rule set: what counts and what doesn't. A wrong flag points at the line to fix.
Passes
A first pass drops sport, weather and noise. Only what survives meets the client rules.
Scoring
A specialised small language model scores relevance and significance for every story.
Repeats
A story already reported is marked as such, so one development doesn't arrive forty times.
Privacy
Clients are described, never named, and the advisor's own notes are written after scoring, so they never leave the tool.
Output
Tick the stories that matter, write one note, copy a ready email. Nothing sends itself.
Learns
Every pick and skip is kept as a labelled example for tuning.
Also runs
BCPoliTracker's news wire, on the same feed engine

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Who's Jason

Jason Craik founded Gremble. He works in public affairs and political risk in Vancouver, advising on government relations, corporate affairs, M&A, market entry, issues and strategy. About Jason → · LinkedIn ↗