User Guide¶
This is the entry point for using Epic News. If you want to build a new crew or set up the dev environment, see Your First Crew and Development Setup instead.
How to Use Epic News¶
- Start the application:
crewai flow kickoff - Type a request in plain English or French — no special syntax.
- Wait for the report. Epic News classifies your request, picks the right crew, and writes the result to
output/<crew>/. - Check your inbox. If Gmail is connected via Composio, you also receive the HTML report by email.
Use Cases by Category¶
The full list of crews is split into four pages by domain:
| Category | What's inside |
|---|---|
| 📈 Finance | FinDailyCrew (portfolio analysis), Shopping Advisor |
| 📰 News & Research | Daily news, RSS weekly, Company news, PESTEL, Deep research, Book summary |
| 💼 Business & Intelligence | Sales prospecting, Meeting prep, OSINT, Legal analysis |
| 🍳 Lifestyle & Creative | Cooking, Menu planning, Travel, Saint of the day, Poem |
After a Run¶
- Where things land on disk, what the logs mean, how to read trace events: → Output Reference
- Email didn't arrive? Wrong crew triggered? Diagnose with: → Troubleshooting & FAQ
Going Further¶
- Build Your First Crew — step-by-step tutorial.
- Architecture Overview — how the flow, classifier and renderers fit together.
- Architecture Decision Records — why things are built the way they are.