News

ORCA's News plugin pulls in articles from RSS feeds you configure, filters them by relevance to your topics, and puts them in front of your team. You control what gets published and when.

Setting Up Sources

Sources are the RSS feeds ORCA ingests from. You manage them in Settings → News → Sources.

When adding a source, you'll set a name and a Feed URL, then choose how that source behaves:

Fetch full content extracts the complete article text via Readability when ORCA polls the feed. Useful when the RSS only delivers a teaser or the first paragraph of each piece.

Auto-publish controls whether articles from this source go straight to your Live feed or land in the Inbox for review first. Turn it off for sources where you want to vet articles before they're visible to the team. Leave it on for high-trust feeds you're happy to publish automatically.

News Terms and Relevance Filtering

Terms are keywords or phrases that describe what topics your account cares about: think sector names, technologies, or geographies.

You manage them in Settings → News → Terms.

Each term has a Use as filter option. When at least one filter term is set, ORCA will silently drop any incoming article that doesn't mention one of those terms. This is a relevance gate, useful when you're subscribing to a broad feed and only want a slice of it. If no filter terms are set, everything from the feed comes through.

Terms that aren't marked as filters still apply as contextual labels, used elsewhere in matching and display.

News Categories

Categories group your articles into named buckets, useful for filtering the News feed view by topic. Manage them in Settings → News → Categories.

The News View

Click News in the top navigation to see your published articles. The view has two tabs:

Live: articles that have been published and are visible to the team. You can filter by category, source, or date.

Inbox: articles waiting for review. If you have the News Editor role, you'll see a badge on the News nav item when articles are in the queue. The badge also appears on the Settings sidebar's News section.

Working the Inbox

When a source has auto-publish turned off, new articles arrive in the Inbox with a processed=0 status. From there you can:

• Read the article content that was extracted from the feed
• Fetch content: if the RSS only delivered a teaser, click the fetch icon on the article row to pull the full article text from the source URL via Readability. The content updates in-place
• Publish the article to make it live
• Edit the article before publishing if you want to adjust the title, content, or metadata

Once published, the article moves to the Live tab.

The Article Detail View

Click any article to see its full detail page. The source URL shows an external link icon if the original article URL is stored. Click it to open the source.

The side panel (right edge of the screen) includes an AI Assist tab. You can ask the AI to contextualise the article against your account's relationships, for example, "Which of our companies does this affect?" or "What have we discussed with this sector recently?" It's a quick way to turn a news item into something actionable before reaching out.

Tips

Start with auto-publish off. It's easier to loosen the gate once you trust a source than to unpublish a batch of irrelevant articles.

Use filter terms for broad feeds. If you're subscribing to a wide industry feed and only care about a specific technology or geography, a filter term keeps the noise down without having to manually reject dozens of articles.

Fetch content for teaser feeds. Many publishers only push summaries over RSS. The fetch-content action on any inbox article will grab the full text, so your team gets the complete article rather than a two-sentence excerpt.