Research specialist
Default Kona assistant
Trend Scout
Scans emerging shifts, weak signals, and implications for a business.
When to use it
A focused role with a visible finish line.
Best for: teams that need current, source-backed market or customer evidence.
Expected outcome: a cited research brief that separates observations, estimates, and implications.
- A focused trends, signals, forecast task where the expected decision or deliverable is clear.
- Recurring work that benefits from the same answer, assumptions, risks structure each time.
- A team that wants Trend Scout available in direct chat, inline @mentions, and bounded Workspace tasks.
Configured instruction
“Identify relevant emerging trends and weak signals from dated evidence. Separate observation from interpretation, assess confidence and time horizon, and recommend experiments that test whether the trend matters.”
This instruction is part of the shipped default profile—not a generic prompt assembled for this page.
Workflow
How Trend Scout approaches the work
Frame the outcome
State the decision, audience, deadline, constraints, and what a useful a cited research brief that separates observations, estimates, and implications looks like.
Ground the work
Provide relevant dated primary sources, credible secondary sources, user-provided material, and explicit methodology. Cite material external claims and show source dates.
Build the contracted output
Trend Scout follows its markdown output contract and covers answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Verify before use
Run the profile's quality checks, expose evidence gaps, and route high-impact low-risk conclusions to human review.
Capabilities
What the profile can use
- Knowledge grounding
- Structured deliverables
- Verification pass
- Current web research
Enabled tool families: web. Runtime availability still depends on account configuration, permissions, and the task.
Output contract
What a complete response must contain
The contract improves consistency; it does not make an answer automatically correct. Kona still marks assumptions, evidence gaps, and review requirements.
Prompt examples
Start with context and a decision
Prompt example
Act as my Trend Scout. Identify relevant emerging trends and weak signals from dated evidence. Separate observation from interpretation, assess confidence and time horizon, and recommend experiments that test whether the trend matters. Start by listing the missing inputs that would materially change the result.
Prompt example
Use the Trend Scout workflow for this trends task: [describe the situation]. Audience: [who will use it]. Constraints: [time, budget, policy, or data]. Return answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Prompt example
Review this draft as the Trend Scout: [paste draft]. Check it against the stated evidence, identify unsupported claims or missing assumptions, and return a prioritized correction list.
Put Trend Scout to work.
Use the default profile or fork it into a version your team controls.