The Scenario
Every Monday morning you send a weekly briefing email to the leadership team. It covers 30 industry topics — one line per topic, showing the most notable development from the last seven days. The leadership team uses it to prep for the week.
The briefing is due in inboxes by 9 AM. It's currently 7:15 AM on Monday.
Last week you spent an hour and forty minutes on it. The week before, an hour and twenty. None of that time was writing. All of it was searching, reading, deciding what was recent enough to count, and pasting.
The bad version:
- Search each topic in a news aggregator, scan the results, decide whether the top result is from the past week or just recently indexed older content.
- Copy the headline or write a one-line summary, paste it into column B.
- Move to the next row. Repeat 29 more times, watching the clock.
The briefing is supposed to surface what's new. Half the value disappears if the results you're pasting are three weeks old and you didn't catch it.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your topics, understands the column structure, and through its built-in Linkup integration it can run a date-filtered search for each row — returning only results from the past 30 days — and write the summary directly into column B.
For each topic in column A, search Linkup filtering to the last 30 days and write a one-line summary of the most recent development into column B.
SheetXAI runs a date-scoped Linkup query for each row, surfaces only recent content, and writes the one-line summary. The whole briefing sheet populated before 8 AM.
What You Get
- Column B: a one-line summary of the most notable development in the last 30 days for each topic.
- Results are sourced from live web content filtered by date — not from general knowledge that may be months old.
- Rows where no recent content exists are written as "no recent developments" rather than left blank or filled with stale results.
- The run processes all 30 topics in a single pass, consistent phrasing across every row.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want a tighter window — only the last seven days, not the last 30
The weekly briefing only cares about this week. Anything older than seven days is not new.
For each topic in column A, search Linkup filtering to the last 7 days only and write a one-line summary of the most recent development into column B. Write "no news this week" if no result falls within the window.
Some topics are evergreen and you want to skip them if nothing recent exists
Three topics on the list rarely have weekly news. You don't want them to clutter the briefing with filler.
For each topic in column A, search Linkup for results from the last 7 days. If a result exists, write a one-line summary into column B. If no result from the last 7 days is found, write "skip" in column B so I can remove those rows from the briefing.
You also need the publication name and date for each result
The leadership team sometimes asks "where did you get this?" — having the source and date in column C prevents that question.
For each topic in column A, search Linkup filtering to the last 30 days. Write a one-line summary into column B and the publication name and publication date of the most relevant result into column C.
You want the summary, the source, and a flagged "high priority" marker for any topic with major breaking news — all in one pass
Not all developments are equal. The CEO wants to know which three topics had the biggest news this week.
For each topic in column A, search Linkup for results from the last 7 days. Write a one-line summary into column B, the source publication and date into column C, and write "HIGH PRIORITY" in column D if the result describes a major announcement, acquisition, regulatory action, or market shift. Leave column D blank otherwise.
The briefing comes out pre-prioritized, which is the part that used to take another 20 minutes after the searching was done.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a Google Sheet with your weekly briefing topics in column A, then ask SheetXAI to run date-filtered Linkup searches and populate column B before Monday's 9 AM send. For related articles, see Scrape Vendor Features Into a Google Sheet With Domain-Restricted Linkup Search and the Linkup integration overview.