Creating Your Own Signal

Can't find a signal for the topic you care about? Create your own. Crew's AI will research, score, and publish articles on your chosen topic — automatically.

How to Create a Signal

1. Go to Signals → click Create Signal in the top navigation

2. Describe your signal — Tell Crew what you want to track. For example:

   • "Top AI research papers published this week"

   • "Startup funding rounds over $10M in the healthcare space"

   • "New open source developer tools trending on GitHub"

3. Review the AI-generated config — Crew suggests a title, description, category, schedule, and quality threshold. Edit anything you want.

4. Preview sample articles — Crew generates 2–3 sample articles so you can see what the signal will produce. If they don't look right, regenerate or tweak your description.

5. Publish — Your signal is created in draft mode. Once it has at least one entry, you can activate it.

Signal Settings

When creating or editing a signal, you can configure:

Setting	Options
Category	AI & Tech, Finance, Science, Culture, Business, Open Source, Regional, Health, Education
Schedule	Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, Monthly
Language	Any of the 14 supported languages
Quality threshold	Minimum quality score for published articles

Managing Your Signals

Go to My Signals in the Signals navigation to see all the signals you've created. For each signal you can:

• View — See the public signal page with all published articles

• Pause — Temporarily stop generating new articles

• Resume — Restart a paused signal

• Activate — Make a draft signal live (requires at least one entry)

• Delete — Permanently remove the signal

Signal Status

Status	Meaning
Draft	Just created, not yet active. Needs at least one entry to activate.
Active	Running on schedule, generating new articles automatically.
Paused	Temporarily stopped. No new articles until you resume.

Tips for Great Signals

• Be specific — "AI papers about transformer efficiency" works better than "AI news"

• Set the right frequency — Fast-moving topics (startup funding) suit daily; niche topics (academic research) suit weekly or biweekly

• Check sample articles — The preview step lets you fine-tune before publishing

• Share with others — Your published signals are visible to all Crew users, so others can subscribe too