Acquire
Sources
An external location Aevico polls into your workspace.
A source is an external feed, listing page, or API that Aevico polls. Each source belongs to a workspace and is configured independently.
Console → Acquire → Sources. Choose News or Market Intelligence at the top before you add a source — category lists differ. Monitor → Watches uses the same form for monitor connectors; do not mix those with Acquire sources.
Choose a type
- RSSExample: BBC World (top-stories).
- HTML listA listing page plus URL include/exclude filters.
- APIExample: GNews top-headlines.
Fields on every source
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | Label in the console list. Does not change the remote URL. |
| Type | RSS, HTML list, or API. Pick this first — the rest of the form changes. |
| Language | Language of the source. Used for ingest and Feed API language_code. |
| Category / Capability | News uses category (e.g. top-stories). Market Intelligence uses capability. Feeds and alerts key off this value. |
| Poll interval | How often we fetch. Options: 1 min, 3 min, 5 min (default), 10, 15, 30 min, 1 hour. |
| Active | When off, the source is not polled. Existing items stay in the workspace. |
Market Intelligence sources
When you choose Market Intelligence at the top of Sources, category becomes Capability (Lead, Competitive, Company, Industry, Government, Sales). You can also save entity, events, signals, and topics on the source — watch lists for what you care about, not live classification.
Saved as labels on this source. On ingest, Aevico matches these as keywords (title, summary, body), lists hits under Signals, can fire Alerts (MI detection), and can gate Workflows IF on mi_detection fields. That is substring matching — not LLM classification.
You can paste seed JSON (array of sources) when bulk-adding. For Market Intelligence, include category mi-* and optional intelligence_metadata. Test fetch is available for HTML list and API before you save.
{"sources":[{"source_type":"rss","source_url":"https://…","category":"mi-company","intelligence_metadata":{"entity_name":"Acme Corp","entity_type":"company","events":["funding"],"signals":["growth_signal"],"topics":["cloud"]}}]}Lifecycle
Configure → validate → fetch → extract → normalize → publish
Activity shows last successful fetch, last item, and recent errors. Pause a source with Active off; existing items stay in the workspace.
Source count includes Acquire sources and Watches. Hitting the plan max returns a conflict until you delete one or upgrade.
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