Before a meeting or a raise, you want to know what a whole group of organizations said this week, in their own words. Research Associate reads a Beacon, such as Synorb's 140+ VC firms, keeps the items that bear on your question, and writes a memo you can check line by line.
What it does
- It runs on the Beacon that fits the question: VC firms, AI companies, private companies or business podcasts.
- A bottom line for your purpose, then a dated timeline, oldest first.
- A table of Claims with the confidence label each one carries: stated, measured, implied or inferred.
- A coverage note with how many items matched, how many it read and how many it kept.
A real result
Research memo: What VC firms published this week (Beacon: Venture Capital, 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-25)
2026-10-21: Craft Ventures writes up its investment in ASI's $325 million Series C; ASI builds what it calls an "automated nervous system" for critical infrastructure.
2026-10-21: M13 describes Baselayer, which raised a $35 million Series A led by M13, as identity infrastructure for businesses and their AI agents.
Read the full result, with every Synorb call the agent made.
Set it up once
The first run is the setup: your agent picks the Beacon, agrees the schedule with you and shows you a real result. After that it runs on its own and reports only what is new since the last run.
We tested this skill end to end against live Synorb data before we published it: a fresh agent read only the skill and did the job. The sample above is what it produced. Synorb makes no model call when it serves a request, so your own model writes the result.
Try it
In a coding agent, install it with one command:
npx skills add Synorb/skills --skill research-associateIn any other agent that can read a link, paste this:
Read https://synorb.com/skills/research-associate.md and follow it to set up a weekly memo on what VC firms publish.
No Synorb account yet? The skill starts with Synorb Setup, which gets a free demo key with no email and no card. Install pages for every agent type, the ZIP for upload, and the full sample are on synorb.com/skills/research-associate.