Workflow
Autonomous PR Crisis Monitor
Scans the web for negative brand mentions, assesses PR threat levels, and autonomously drafts brand-safe crisis responses to protect your reputation.
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Public RelationsBrand ManagementCrisis ResponseReputation Monitoring
Autonomous PR Crisis Monitor
The Autonomous PR Crisis Monitor workflow helps brands stay ahead by continuously scanning recent online content for negative mentions and potential public relations crises. It automatically analyzes content, assesses threat levels, and crafts carefully vetted responses to emerging issues involving a brand or its key executives.
It performs five key actions:
- Searches the internet for negative mentions, complaints, or controversies about a brand or executive within the last 60 minutes.
- Uses an AI agent to analyze the found mentions and identify any genuine PR threats.
- Routes the workflow to continue only if a real threat is detected, otherwise it stops cleanly to save resources.
- Searches a crisis response playbook for approved responses related to the detected complaint.
- Drafts a brand-safe, empathetic crisis response and evaluates that response to ensure it meets legal standards, looping if adjustments are needed.
What You Need
- Needle platform access with the required connectors.
- Variables set for BRAND_NAME and EXEC_NAME to target searches.
- Access to internet search and collection search connectors.
- AI models enabled for threat analysis and response drafting.
- A crisis response playbook collection configured with relevant company protocols.
How the Flow Works
| Node | Function |
|---|---|
| Internet Search | Queries recent content on news, Reddit, social media, and review sites for mentions involving the brand combined with keywords indicating PR issues. |
| AI Threat Analyst | Reviews the search results to filter out irrelevant mentions, identifies genuine negative PR threats, and marks the most severe one. |
| PR Threat Router | Checks if a threat was found. If none, it ends the flow. If a threat exists, it proceeds to response generation. |
| Crisis Playbook Search | Looks up a curated collection for crisis response protocols tied to the core complaint discovered. |
| AI Crisis Director Loop | Iterates up to twice to draft a highly professional, empathetic, non-defensive public response using only approved resolutions. |
| Brand Safety Compliance | Evaluates each drafted response against brand safety criteria, legal risk, tone, and promises. If not compliant, the loop retries. |
| Post-Loop Extractor | Gathers the final approved response and relevant threat details for output. |
Output
At the end of the workflow, you get a structured report containing:
- Whether a PR threat was detected.
- The threat level severity.
- A summary of the core complaint.
- A source URL for the incident.
- A polished, brand-safe crisis response drafted specifically for the situation.
Notes
- Ensure the crisis playbook collection is up to date with all approved response protocols to maximize response quality.
- The review loop safeguards the brand from risky or defensive language by actively retrying the drafting phase when issues are found.
- Setting accurate variables for brand and executive names enhances search relevance.
- This workflow works best when run on a schedule to monitor continuously for new threats.
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