Notes

proposal

• geography: MENA (Levant, GCC, Noth Africa)
• Banks: top 5 banks in every country
• Fintechs (all types) and startuos covering payments, lending, onboarding, customer experience, security, and others
• Regulators in those markets, and other central entities like payment switches
• Vendors used by banks, Visa, Mastercard, NCR, FirstData, Network International, etc…

Convert to capability and move to Cloud:

┌──────────────┐ theme.yaml ──► │ Discovery │ Firecrawl/SerpAPI for each (source, query) │ (code) │ → raw hits with URL, title, snippet, date └──────┬───────┘ ▼ ┌──────────────┐ │ Filter │ Per-item Gemma call: │ (Gemma) │ in-scope? in-window? entity match? └──────┬───────┘ ▼ ┌──────────────┐ │ Enrich │ Firecrawl scrape full article; │ (code) │ extract verified publish date └──────┬───────┘ ▼ ┌──────────────┐ │ Rank │ Rule-based: country balance, recency, │ (code) │ source weight, entity type diversity └──────┬───────┘ ▼ ┌──────────────┐ │ Synthesize │ Haiku: item summaries, exec summary, │ (Haiku) │ top-N selection └──────┬───────┘ ▼ ┌──────────────┐ │ Render │ Jinja → HTML (email) + python-docx → .docx │ (code) │ using theme’s template tokens + palette └──────┬───────┘ ▼ ┌──────────────┐ │ Deliver │ SMTP / Telegram / Slack adapters │ (code) │ per theme’s delivery block └──────────────┘