Architecture · Market scouting
One vector store, two delivery surfaces
— scheduled newsletter and on-demand chatbot drawn from a shared market intelligence database.
Palfinger
Rev 01 · 2026.04
RAG · Cloud
01
INPUTS
Scouting keywords
Curated by team
Scouting sources
Homepages · blogs · journals
02
INGESTION · MONTHLY
Scraping
Pulls relevant sources
Company homepages · blogs
journals · industry feeds
PDF extraction
Tables · figures · text
Data extraction
Structured fields · metadata
03
STORE · CRITICAL PATH
Vector Database
RAG-indexed · cloud-hosted · single source for both delivery surfaces
Market news · announcements · features · products · technology trends
04
NEWSLETTER · MONTHLY
04a
Evaluate updates
Since last newsletter
04b
Compute diff
Input + database changes
04c · AGENT
Write scouting report
Newsletter agent · drafts the issue
04d
Mail communication
Sent to subscriber list
04e · TERMINAL
Stakeholders
READS
05
CHATBOT · ON-DEMAND
05a · SOURCE
Stakeholder query
Ad hoc chat interaction
05b · AGENT
Chatbot agent
Retrieves · synthesizes · responds
05c
Conversational output
In-context answer
05d · TERMINAL
Same stakeholder
READS