Weekly

Get a weekly research brief with sources

Every Monday you get a short brief on your topic built from live Google results, with the links it used.

Runs: Weekly
Apps: Google Gemini
AI: Not needed
Access: API key

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday at 8am, research new EU AI Act guidance using the Google Gemini API with Google Search, and email me a short brief with the sources.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

An analyst at a small consultancy is asked each Monday what changed in a client's market: new regulations, competitor launches, funding rounds. She spends two hours searching, opening tabs and pasting links into a document, and the result depends on which queries she happened to try. A plain AI chat answer would be faster, but it may rely on stale training data and gives no way to check where a claim came from.

Once a week, ClickRuntime asks Gemini your research question with the Google Search tool switched on, so the answer draws on current results. It collects the written answer along with the grounding sources Gemini used, and emails you a brief with a link next to each claim so you can check it.

It suits consultants, investors, journalists and product teams who need a reliable weekly picture of a topic.

What you get out of it

Current facts, not last year's
Grounding the answer in live Google results means the brief reflects this week's news and not old model knowledge. A regulation that changed on Thursday shows up in Monday's email instead of being missed.
Every claim comes with a source
Linked sources let a reader verify a figure or a quote in one click. Handing a client a brief with references is much easier to defend than a paragraph of unsupported summary.
The same questions asked every week
A fixed research question produces briefs that can be compared. Changes in a competitor's pricing or a new entrant stand out because last week's brief used the same structure. That makes trends visible across months, not just one week.
Hours of searching saved
Skimming a finished brief and following the few links that matter takes minutes. The analyst's time shifts from collecting information to judging it, which is where the value is. Her afternoon stays free for the client call itself.
Wider coverage than manual searching
A person tends to repeat the same few queries. Search-grounded generation pulls from many pages at once, so you see developments from smaller sites and trade press that you would not have tried.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every Monday, ClickRuntime asks Gemini to research your topic, such as new EU AI Act guidance from the last 7 days.
Gemini searches Google and writes a short brief of 5 to 8 bullet points.
ClickRuntime collects the web pages Gemini used.
You get one email with the brief and a list of source titles and links.

Before it runs live

Connect Google Gemini

What you get

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Get a weekly research brief with sourcestoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · EU AI Act brief• The Commission published draft guidelines on high-risk system classification Sources: europa.eu

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Google Gemini steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

research_briefs_grounded_in_google_search.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, notify, http

def gemini(body, model="gemini-2.5-flash"):
    resp = http.post(f"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/{model}:generateContent",
                     headers={"x-goog-api-key": credentials.secret("GEMINI_API_KEY")}, json=body, timeout=120)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()["candidates"][0]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    out = gemini({
        "contents": [{"parts": [{"text": "Research new EU AI Act guidance published in the last 7 days. "
                                         "Write a short brief of 5 to 8 bullets."}]}],
        "tools": [{"google_search": {}}],
    })
    brief = out["content"]["parts"][0]["text"]
    chunks = (out.get("groundingMetadata") or {}).get("groundingChunks", [])
    sources = "\n".join(f"- {c['web']['title']}: {c['web']['uri']}" for c in chunks if "web" in c)
    notify.email_me("EU AI Act brief", f"{brief}\n\nSources:\n{sources}")
    return {"sources": len(chunks)}

FAQ

Common questions

How can I tell the brief is not made up?

Each answer comes with the grounding sources Gemini used, listed with links. Open the ones that matter before relying on a number. If a claim has no supporting link, treat it as unverified and search for it yourself.

Can I narrow the brief to certain websites or regions?

You can phrase the question to prefer certain regions, languages or types of source, such as regulator announcements or trade publications. Search grounding follows the question, so narrower wording like this gives narrower, more relevant results.

How long is the email?

Usually a page: a short overview, a handful of key developments and the source links. You can ask for something shorter, such as five bullets, or longer with sections per competitor or per theme, depending on who reads it.

What permissions does it need?

API key. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (weekly). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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