Notifications are the part of monitoring that breaks first when you scale up. The pages still get checked. The diffs still land. But somewhere between ten and a hundred monitors, the alert stream stops being useful.

We first shipped Summary Reports in August 2023 in a simpler form. You had two options back then: instant alerts on every change, or one daily or weekly summary for the whole workspace. It worked, and you could split monitors across multiple workspaces to get separate digests, but it never fully solved the problem. You still couldn't run a daily digest for one team and a weekly digest for another inside the same workspace, send different audiences different versions of the same monitoring data, or set different urgency thresholds per group of pages. The new version handles all of that.

The old setup, briefly

Two modes per workspace.

Instant alerts work fine at twenty or thirty pages, struggle past a hundred, and become unusable past three hundred. Past that point most teams quietly mute the channel.

The single workspace summary was better than the wall of email but lumped everything together: Tier 1 competitor pricing in the same email as a Tier 3 footer tweak, compliance changes next to product launch posts. Different audiences, different urgencies, all merged into one message.

What changed

You can now create as many reports as you want per workspace. Each one is independent.

• Group monitors however you think about them: tag, folder, domain, or hand-pick. The same monitor can live in several reports.
• Per-report schedule: daily, weekdays, weekends, weekly, monthly. Pick the hour and day.
• Per-report channels and recipients: email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, web push. Recipients can include external email addresses, no PageCrawl seat required.
• Per-report AI summary in a style you pick. More on this below.
• Priority escalation: a change above your threshold skips the digest and pings you immediately on a separate channel. So you don't have to choose between "wait until tomorrow" and "every change in real time".
• Optional Excel attachment and shareable digest link for stakeholders without a PageCrawl account.

If you were using the old workspace summary, we migrated it for you. You'll see a "Workspace Summary" report already sitting there with your old schedule, recipients, and channels.

AI summaries now run per report

AI summaries aren't new. The old workspace digest already opened with an AI-written summary. The shift is what they're summarizing.

Before, one summary covered everything in the workspace for a given period. With 150 monitors and a daily digest, that summary was averaging across pricing tweaks, footer edits, policy updates, and product launches all at once. No single 80-change recap reads well to both a pricing analyst and a legal counsel.

Now every report has its own AI summary across just that report's changes, in a style you pick:

• Headline: one-line summary
• Action items: framed as "here's what to do"
• Detailed: multi-paragraph brief
• Risk: by severity and impact
• Patterns: themes across the batch
• Changelog: technical format
• Bullets: short, scan-friendly
• Brief: tight executive summary

A daily Tier 1 competitor digest can read like an analyst note while the compliance digest going to legal reads like a risk brief. Same AI, focused batch, style tuned per audience.

Before and after

A concrete example. A competitive intelligence team monitors 150 pages across 12 retailers.

Before: instant email mode. 30 to 60 PageCrawl emails per week, mostly skimmed.

After: three reports.

1. Tier 1 daily, 9am weekdays, action-items style, priority escalation at 85 to a separate Slack channel.
2. Tier 2 weekly Monday, patterns style, to the wider distribution list.
3. Long-tail monthly, brief style, with a shareable digest link forwarded to leadership.

Same pages, same detection. The notification load drops from a stream into three predictable touchpoints, plus the occasional priority escalation when something material lands.

Setup

Settings, Workspace, Notifications, Digests, click Add Report. Five fields:

1. Name and monitors (tag, folder, domain, or pick).
2. Schedule (daily, weekdays, weekends, weekly, monthly, plus hour and day).
3. Channels and recipients.
4. AI summary on or off, and style.
5. Priority escalation on or off, threshold, and channel.

Two minutes to a working report. Full setup walkthrough with screenshots and per-field reference is in the Scheduled Reports help article.

Tell us how it's going

We'd love to hear how you're using these reports and any feedback to make them even better. Drop us a line at help@pagecrawl.io or use the in-app feedback form.