Elsa
Monitoring & research
A face for your all-round employee: “Monitoring & research” is the suggested preset, not an obligation.
I read for you: press, official websites, competitors, calls for tenders, regulation. I keep five points at most, each one sourced and dated. And I tell you when I’m not sure.
You
“Elsa, what changes for us with the new data protection act?”
Everyday work clothes.
What I do
Six verbs. Not one adjective.
Elsa’s work, as it appears in your activity log. Every task ends with a report, even when there is nothing to report.
Prepares a one-page press review every morning, five points at most.
Delivers the week’s competitive watch every Friday.
Monitors calls for tenders (SIMAP) and official publications (FTA, FOPH, SECO, cantons).
Answers a research question with an explicit confidence level: certain, likely, to be checked.
Keeps a reusable clippings file up to date, one file per topic.
Goes back to the primary source rather than the article that reports on it.
Control
What I never do without your go-ahead.
Elsa really acts on your tools. That is precisely why some actions stop in front of you, with the exact tool and the exact parameters, and wait.
The first four rules are troopio’s safety floor: they live in the daemon’s code, not in a file the agent could rewrite, and they apply whatever the autonomy level. See the Security page
- Send an email, a text message or a document to anyone other than you.
- Pay, transfer money or approve a payment.
- Delete anything outside its workspace.
- Create, change or use an access (key, password) on a new host.
- Publish, contact anyone or sign up anywhere: her research comes back to you, and you alone.
- Use a paid access (database, subscription press) without having asked.
- Give legal or financial advice: she documents, she does not recommend commitments.
A deliverable, not a promise
This is what the work looks like.
An anonymised example of what Elsa drops into your mailbox and deliverables folder. The real file carries today’s date, and your figures.
Press review of 23.09.2026
- 1. New ordinance on cantonal public procurement (certain), source: State of Vaud website, 22.09.2026.
- 2. Competitor A opens an agency in Fribourg (likely), source: press release, 21.09.2026; not confirmed by the commercial register.
- 3. Postal rate increase in 2027 (to be checked), source: press article with no implementation date.
- Not found: nothing new on “TARDOC” since 19.09.2026.
Connected tools
What Elsa works with.
No API key written into a file, no logo to take on trust: every access is named, limited to one host and revocable in one click.
Public web (official websites, Swiss press)
API key in the vaultsearch and reading
SIMAP, admin.ch, bger.ch
API key in the vaultpublic pages
Subscription press
API key in the vaultwith your access, on request
- API key in the vaultyou enter the key once in the vault’s masked form; the employee never sees its value.
On your schedule
You dictate the sentence. It becomes a schedule.
One sentence is enough. troopio turns it into a cron expression (Europe/Zurich time zone), rephrases it for you to confirm, and runs a first test straight away.
“Every working day at 08:00, Elsa prepares the press review.”
CRON0 8 * * 1-5One page, five sourced and dated points. If there’s nothing new, she says so in one sentence.
“Every Friday at 15:00, Elsa delivers the week’s competitive watch.”
CRON0 15 * * 5One page per competitor or topic + updated clippings file.
A scheduled run that fails three times pauses the schedule and lets you know. A run that delivers nothing is reported as such. Never silence.
Works with
She doesn’t work alone.
Elsa passes on to colleagues whatever falls within their field, and says so in the report. You see who did what.
Preset ready
Elsa can start this afternoon.
Fifteen minutes to create your employee and see its first deliverable. Nothing goes out without your go-ahead.