The Scenario
A strategy consultant is preparing a client briefing on "CRISPR gene editing 2025." The deliverable is a single structured worksheet: the 10 most recent news articles on the topic, plus the 3 most relevant Wikipedia pages for background — all in one place, ready to send.
The consultant has done this kind of briefing before. The usual process is to search news sources, then do a Wikipedia search separately, then combine everything into a worksheet with consistent column formatting.
This one is due before the afternoon call.
The bad version:
- Run a Perigon search for "CRISPR gene editing 2025." Copy article titles, sources, and URLs into the workbook manually — 10 rows.
- Switch to Wikipedia. Search the same topic. Find 3 relevant pages. Copy page titles and URLs.
- Merge both sources into one worksheet with consistent columns. Realize the column naming doesn't match between what you pasted from Perigon and what you typed for Wikipedia.
You have 90 minutes before the call. You've spent 40 of them on data formatting.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It can run a Perigon article search and a Wikipedia search in the same prompt and write both result sets into your workbook with a shared column structure.
Combine a Perigon article search for "CRISPR gene editing 2025" with a Wikipedia search on the same topic and populate my Excel Topic Brief sheet with source type, title, publication, date, and URL for all results.
What You Get
- 13 rows in the Topic Brief worksheet: 10 articles and 3 Wikipedia pages.
- Column A: source type — "article" or "wiki". Column B: title. Column C: publication or source. Column D: date. Column E: URL.
- Both data sources formatted consistently in one pass.
- Ready to drop into a client-facing document or send directly.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The research topic should be read from the workbook, not the prompt
Read the research topic from cell B1 of the Config worksheet. Search Perigon for the 10 most recent articles on that topic and Wikipedia for the top 3 relevant pages. Write source type, title, publication, date, and URL to the Topic Brief worksheet.
You want a date filter on the news articles
Search Perigon for the 10 most recent articles on "CRISPR gene editing 2025" published in the last 90 days. Also search Wikipedia for the top 3 relevant pages on the topic. Write source type, title, publication, date, and URL to the Topic Brief worksheet.
The workbook has a previous briefing that needs replacing
Clear all rows in the Topic Brief worksheet below row 1. Search Perigon for the 10 most recent articles on "CRISPR gene editing 2025" and Wikipedia for the top 3 relevant pages. Write source type, title, publication, date, and URL — articles first, then Wikipedia entries.
Pull news and Wikipedia results, add one-line summaries, and flag authority sources in one pass
Search Perigon for the 10 most recent articles on "CRISPR gene editing 2025" and Wikipedia for the top 3 relevant pages. Write source type, title, publication, date, and URL to the Topic Brief worksheet. In column F, add a one-sentence summary for each entry. For Perigon articles from sources with high domain authority, mark column G with "authority source".
One prompt assembles the brief and adds editorial context in a single pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook you use for client or internal research briefs, then ask it to pull Perigon articles and Wikipedia pages on your topic in one go. See the full Perigon integration overview or explore running a Perigon Wikipedia semantic search.