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Making changes to your brief

Editors change coverage, format, sections, recipients and delivery by replying to any brief in plain English.

Your brief changes by replying to it. There’s no settings page, no dashboard, no dropdown menus. You say what you want in plain English, and the agent handles it.

What you can change

Coverage. “Add Acme Corp as a competitor.” “Track lithium policy news.” “Stop covering M&A.” “More product launches, fewer funding rounds.” The agent updates your research plan and the next brief reflects it.

Format. “Use bullets instead of paragraphs.” “Make sections shorter.” “Axios-style, please.”

Sections. Rename them, reorder them, add new ones, drop ones you don’t read. “Rename ‘Competitors’ to ‘Market’.” “Add a section for regulatory news.” “Drop the ‘Industry’ section. It’s too broad.”

Sensitivity per section. Some sections you want tight, others you want everything. “More stories in Competitors, fewer in Industry.” The agent calibrates per-section.

Team. “Add alex@company.com as an editor.” “Add jane@company.com” (added as subscriber by default). “Remove jane@company.com.” Editors can make changes; subscribers just receive the brief.

Delivery. “Switch to weekend delivery.” “Send at 8am ET instead of 6am.”

How changes land

The agent confirms what it did in its reply. Most changes take effect the next morning. Coverage changes can take a few minutes to fully reprocess.

Feedback that isn’t a change

You can also just tell the agent what you liked and didn’t like. “That Reuters piece was exactly right.” “Too many product launches from small companies.” The system treats this as signal and the brief gets better.

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