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A tracker is an always-on research assistant. You describe what to watch — a topic, a set of competitors, a market, a regulation — and the tracker researches it on a recurring schedule (or on demand) and publishes its findings as stories: readable research articles that appear on the tracker’s page and in your Discover feed. Instead of re-asking the same research question every week, you configure it once and Merciv delivers fresh, non-duplicative updates automatically. Open Trackers from the main navigation sidebar. The list shows all of your trackers as cards, with tabs for My Trackers, Organization Trackers (visible to organization admins), and Archived. Click a card to open the tracker’s detail page, which shows its status, next run time, sources, and a timeline of runs and the stories each run produced.

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Create a tracker

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Start a new tracker

On the Trackers page, click New. If you don’t have any trackers yet, you can also pick one of three starter templates — Competitive Brand Monitoring, Industry News & Trends, or Market & Financial Signals — which pre-fill the form.
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Name it and write a monitoring brief

Give the tracker a name, then describe what it should watch in the Topic field. Be specific — for example: “Monitor quarterly earnings and guidance from major sneaker brands including Nike, Adidas, and New Balance.” Both fields are required.
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Choose a schedule

Pick a frequency: Manual, Daily, Weekly (the default), or Monthly. For scheduled trackers, choose a time of day (in 30-minute increments) plus the day of week (Weekly) or day of month (Monthly). Schedules run in your browser’s timezone. The Weekly default is Monday at 9:00 AM.Manual trackers never run on their own — they only run when you click Run Now.
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Add sources (optional)

Add up to 10 website URLs to focus the research on specific sites. Leave the list empty to search broadly.
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Create

Click Create. The tracker appears in your list and runs on its schedule from then on.
Write a concrete monitoring brief. A run with an empty or placeholder topic (like “test”) is rejected and recorded as a failed run.

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Personal and organization trackers

  • Personal trackers (the My Trackers tab) are visible and manageable only by you. Any organization member can create one, and its stories appear in your own feed.
  • Organization trackers are visible and manageable only by organization admins. Their stories are visible to everyone in the organization.
If you’re an organization admin, the create form includes My Tracker and Organization Tracker scope tabs. Admins can also convert a tracker’s scope later — see Managing trackers.

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Create a tracker from chat

You can also set up trackers without leaving a conversation. When you ask Merciv to “track”, “monitor”, or “keep me updated on” something in Chat, it proposes one to three tracker cards showing a name, monitoring brief, frequency, and sources. Edit any proposal, then click Create to set it up or Dismiss to skip it. Created trackers show a View in Trackers link that takes you to the Trackers page.

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What a run produces

Each run is an AI research job. Merciv researches your topic (or generates fresh sub-topics for the period), checks the candidates against stories the tracker has already published so you only get genuinely new material, and writes a story — a research article with citations, a title, and a preview — for each new topic. Processing happens in the background and can take a few minutes. Finished stories appear on the tracker’s page and in your Discover feed.

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Next steps

Managing trackers

Run on demand, read the run timeline, pause, edit, and archive.

Discover

Where tracker stories land, and how to read and act on them.