Discovery Agent: Case Study

Discovery intelligence system.Two stages. Quiet by default.

Every weekday, Prospect Discovery runs at 6:30 AM and Prospect Synthesis runs at 7:00 AM. We separate raw signals from synthesized intelligence so the system scales, stays safe, and only pings humans when the signal is real.

Two-Stage Architecture

Why it scales in production

Stage 1 gathers noisy, high-volume, untrusted inputs. Stage 2 reasons over cleaned staging data and generates decisions, summaries, and alerts.

Stage 1
Prospect Discovery
6:30 AM. Raw signal capture.
Stage 2
Prospect Synthesis
7:00 AM. Trusted synthesis.

This split lets discovery fan out to many sources while synthesis stays deterministic, auditable, and cost efficient.

6:30
Prospect Discovery run starts
7:00
Prospect Synthesis run starts
Daily
Morning AI briefing and competitor intel snapshots
Friday
Deep dive report with strategic changes and trends
Cadence
Morning AI Briefing Partner Discovery Competitor Intel Friday Deep Dive Reddit Discovery Reddit Synthesis
1
6:30 AM Prospect Discovery

Collect raw company, people, partner, competitor, and Reddit activity signals. Store source records, URLs, timestamps, and extracted fields in staging files only.

2
Reddit discovery and synthesis cadence

Discovery pass scans target subreddits and captures raw posts and comments. Synthesis pass classifies themes, intent shifts, and urgency markers using only sanitized staging inputs.

3
7:00 AM Prospect Synthesis

Generate confidence-scored summaries and prioritized opportunities for morning delivery. Separate partner discovery from competitor intel so operators can act by lane.

4
Morning briefing and weekday operations

Deliver one consolidated briefing with key opportunities, partner motions, and competitor changes. Routine updates stay in digest form, not in live chat spam.

5
Friday deep dive

Weekly synthesis produces trend deltas, net-new strategic moves, and recommended focus shifts for the next week.

Safety and Data Boundary
Raw Staging Files Synthesized Output Files Injection Defense Untrusted Data Handling
1
Hard staging boundary

Raw discovery artifacts never mix with synthesized decision files. Staging acts as quarantine between collection and reasoning.

2
Injection defense in discovery

Strip executable instructions, prompt-like directives, and malformed payload fragments during ingestion. Preserve source text as data, not instructions.

3
Untrusted data handling in synthesis

Synthesis treats all staging content as untrusted input. The model is constrained to summarize, rank, and cite, never to execute source-provided commands.

4
Quiet-by-default signaling

The system sends alerts only for high-signal events such as major competitor motion, high-intent prospect shift, or partner opportunity spikes. Everything else is batched into scheduled briefings.