Research calendar guests and send a Slack briefing
The author built a Zapier agent that researches Google Calendar guests via web search, drafts a short summary, and sends it on Slack.
Done withZapier Agents
- What they did
- The agent is built in Zapier with a 6 AM daily schedule trigger and three tools: Google Calendar Find Event, Slack Send Channel Message, and the built-in Web Search. Written instructions tell it to find the day's meetings, pick out external attendees, research each person and their company, and post a summary paragraph to a Slack channel. The author tests it in preview before switching it on.
- How it went
- In the test, the agent correctly found biographical and career background on the author's CEO and CTO and sent it to Slack. The source gives no results from live runs.
- Worth knowing
- The free plan caps test runs at 10 actions, and the agent may ask for confirmations during testing but runs on its own once live.
Try it yourself with Zapier Agents
Create a Zapier Agent that looks at my Google Calendar each morning, finds meetings with external guests, and researches each guest and their company using web search. Have it write a 3-4 line briefing per guest and send it to me in a Slack message to [channel or DM]. Test it on tomorrow's meetings and show me the briefing before turning on the schedule.
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