Searches recent public news for a contact and company, then generates a warm, professional icebreaker sentence referencing a specific event.

How it works 11 steps

Inspect the data fetches, transforms, gates, and output this recipe runs.

Data fetch

▼ contact contact-reader-hubspot

Fetch reader from hubspot

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Process (10 steps)

⚠ guard_contact guard

Stop if contact is missing

◆ search_news search-exa

Search on exa

■ slice_results slice

Take a subset of

■ has_results compare

Check if slice results has data

■ ai_ready all

Check if all conditions are true

■ hash_contact hash_replace

Anonymize sensitive fields for safe AI processing

✦ generate_icebreaker ai-generate

AI generates content from a template

skip: step.ai_ready equal false

■ restore_contact hash_restore

Restore anonymized fields back to real values

■ icebreaker_text coalesce

Use the first available value from: generate icebreaker content, No recent news found — try generic opener

■ output_card to_summary

Format results as a summary card

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Output

summary output_card

Settings 3 configurable

Configurable at install. Defaults shown — change them anytime in Recued.

enable ai toggle = on

max search results number = 3

search lookback days number = 90