Content Sources let you subscribe to external content feeds and have the system monitor them on your behalf. Listeners poll on configurable cadences, deduplicate what they find, and feed new items through an AI evaluation chain that scores relevance against your niche and ICP — then creates content opportunities automatically.
Navigate to Production → Content Planner and click the Sources tab.
How It Works
- You create listener subscriptions (source type + query + cadence)
- An hourly cron polls all listeners that are due
- New items are deduplicated and stored as raw discoveries
- The
content-listener-evaluator runner scores each item for relevance
- Items above the relevance threshold become opportunities in the Content Planner feed
Available Sources
| Source | Status | What It Monitors |
|---|
| Reddit | Available | Subreddit posts matching your niche |
| YouTube | Available | Video content for topics and channels |
| Google News | Available | News articles and industry coverage |
| Google Search | Available | Top-ranking pages for your keywords |
| RSS | Available | Any RSS/Atom feed |
| LinkedIn | Coming Soon | Professional content (requires API partner access) |
| X (Twitter) | Coming Soon | Social discussions (requires paid API tier) |
| Pinterest | Coming Soon | Visual content trends |
| Quora | Coming Soon | Q&A content |
YouTube and Google Search listeners require platform API keys. Configure them in Settings → Integrations before creating listeners for those sources.
Creating a Listener
Click Add Source in the Sources tab and choose a source type. Each source has its own configuration fields:
Reddit
- Subreddit name (without the
r/ prefix)
- Sort order: Hot, New, or Top
- Max results per poll (default 25)
YouTube
- Search query (topic or keywords)
- Optional: Channel ID to scope results to a specific creator
Google News
- Topic or search query to track
Google Search
- Query string
- Optional: Site scope (e.g.,
site:competitor.com)
- Time range filter (past day, week, month, or year)
RSS
- Feed URL (RSS 2.0 or Atom format)
Poll Cadences
Choose how often each listener checks for new content:
| Cadence | Best For |
|---|
| Every 1 hour | Fast-moving sources like breaking news, active subreddits, or high-frequency RSS feeds |
| Every 6 hours | Active topics where new content appears several times daily |
| Every 12 hours | Default. Most sources — balances discovery speed with API usage |
| Every 24 hours | Slower-moving feeds and evergreen research queries |
| Weekly | Low-volume sources or broad queries where recency is less critical |
Start with 12h for most listeners. Switch to 6h only if you find you’re missing timely content that would have been actionable the same day.
Recent Discoveries
Below the subscriptions table, a Recent Discoveries feed shows every item the system has fetched, along with its evaluation status:
| Status Badge | Meaning |
|---|
| Pending | Item fetched, waiting for the evaluator runner to process it |
| Evaluating | Relevance scoring in progress |
| Opportunity Created | Item passed scoring and generated a Content Planner opportunity |
| Dismissed | Item scored below threshold — not relevant enough to act on |
How Evaluation Works
The content-listener-evaluator runner scores every new discovery across five criteria:
- Niche relevance — Does this topic belong in your content space?
- ICP match — Would your target audience care about this?
- Novelty — Is this meaningfully different from content you’ve already published?
- Quality signal — Is the source and format worth reacting to?
- Timeliness — Is this still fresh enough to be worth producing?
Items with a combined score of 0.45 or higher are promoted to a content opportunity in the Content Planner. Items below the threshold are marked Dismissed and do not surface.
For opportunities identified as blog-type content, a second runner — content-listener-researcher — enriches the opportunity with keyword research data from your connected SEO tools before it appears in the feed.
Evaluation only runs when runner execution is active. If your workspace has runners paused or over budget, discoveries will queue as Pending until the next eligible execution window.
