Market Pulse

A bounded research sweep that answers one question: what is being said about this topic right now, and what does it mean for the user.

Distilled from a tiered X/Twitter research tool whose design constraint was cost: decompose the question, spend a fixed query budget where it matters, synthesize once.

Workflow

1. Decompose the topic into 3-5 sub-queries before searching anything. A good decomposition covers: the announcement or thing itself, praise, criticism, comparisons to alternatives, and operator/practitioner experience. Bad decomposition is five rephrasings of the same query.
2. Set the budget and say it: default 8 searches, 15 sources read. The user can say "go deeper" to double it. Never exceed the budget silently.
3. Sweep using the session's available tools (web search, X/Twitter search if connected). Prioritize: primary sources first, practitioners over press releases, recent over canonical. Note the date on every source; discard anything older than the question implies.
4. Synthesize once at the end, not incrementally. Group by signal, not by source.

Output format

# Pulse: <topic> - <date>

**The read in one line:** <the single most defensible takeaway>

## What people are saying
- <signal 1, with 1-2 inline source links>
- <signal 2 ...>

## Disagreement
<where sources genuinely conflict, stated as a live question>

## What it means for you
<2-4 sentences tied to the user's context if known>

Budget used: <n> searches, <m> sources.

Anti-patterns

• No quote walls. Synthesize; link the sources.
• Never present one loud thread as consensus. Two independent sources minimum for any claim stated as a trend.
• If the honest answer is "almost nobody is talking about this", say exactly that. Silence is a finding.