Using Ounie

Auto-Research

Give a brain a topic and a cadence, and it goes looking for new material on its own. You stay in the loop — nothing is added until it clears your approval.

How it works#

Each brain can have a research brief: a short description of what it should keep up with, plus how often to look. On that schedule, Ounie searches the web and watches the feeds you point it at, filters the results for relevance and novelty, and drops what survives into a candidate inbox for that brain. Nothing is captured yet — a candidate is just a lead.

Candidates and approval#

Candidates wait in the brain’s Research tab until someone decides. Approve one and it runs through the same pipeline as anything you add by hand — fetched, synthesized into a wiki page, and made citable — so an approved source is indistinguishable from one you saved yourself. Reject one and it is remembered, so the same link never comes back. You choose who can approve (just you, or your collaborators) and whether new candidates need review at all or can be added automatically.

What it costs#

Approving a candidate is metered in credits and counts against a monthly research allowance set by your plan; rejecting one costs you nothing. Auto-Research is a paid-plan feature, and the brief editor is available to a brain’s owner. Approvals draw from your credit wallet once the monthly allowance is used; see pricing for current allowances.

Setting up a brief#

Open a brain, go to settings, and open Research. Describe the topic, add any feeds you want watched, pick a cadence and an approval mode, and turn it on. The brain’s Research tab then shows incoming candidates with a count of what is waiting, and you can run the brief on demand whenever you want a fresh sweep.