Analyst Agent — Autonomous Research & Monitoring

Give it a question (or a company, market or topic) and get a structured, cited analyst-grade report. It plans sub-questions, researches each via live web search, and synthesizes the findings with source URLs on every claim. Point it at a previous run and it reports what changed = recurring monitoring. Callable by any AI agent via Apify's MCP server.

Unlike a generic chat "deep research" answer, this returns a stable, reliable output schema with per-claim citations that your agents and pipelines can depend on.

🔗 Pair it with your scraper

Running Google News Scraper (easyapi/google-news-scraper), Yahoo Finance Scraper (architjn/yahoo-finance) or any topic/company scraper to collect raw material? This is the layer that reads it and answers the actual question — ask about the company, market or topic you just scraped and get a structured, cited report your agents and pipelines can depend on. Works alongside any news, finance or web scraper.

Quick start

1. Fill in the input — set the fields in the input tab (prefilled with a working example).
2. Click Start — the Actor runs and writes one record per item to the dataset.
3. Get your data — export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it via the API.

What it does

1. Plans the question into focused sub-questions (depth controls how many)
2. Researches each via live web search, collecting source URLs
3. Synthesizes a structured report: executive summary, sections (with sources), key findings (with sources), key players, risks, conclusion
4. Monitors — with a baseline, reports what's new/changed since the last run on the same question

Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string	The research question / company / market / topic. Required.
depth	string	brief (3), standard (5) or deep (8 sub-questions).
baselineDatasetId	string	A previous run's dataset ID → report what changed.

{ "query": "What is the competitive landscape for AI note-taking apps in 2026?", "depth": "standard" }

Output

One report record: the structured report (summary / sections / findings / players / risks / conclusion), the full sources[] list, the sub-questions, and changesSinceBaseline.

Pricing (pay-per-event — charged only on a delivered report)

Event	When	Price
research-delivered	per report (brief / standard depth)	$1.50
deep-report-delivered	per report (deep depth)	$6.00
monitoring-update	per re-run that finds changes vs. baseline	$0.50

Who it's for

Founders, consultants, analysts, marketers — and AI agents that need a finished cited report as a tool.

Notes

• Requires an OpenAI API key (OPENAI_API_KEY).
• Listed as an MCP tool on Apify, so any agent can call it and get a reliable structured report back.

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• Argus — Autonomous Intelligence Agent — Describe a mission in plain English; Argus plans what to watch, gathers from public
• Google News Scraper — Search Google News for any topic and get the latest articles — title, source, date, link