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Scheduled Reports turn any Datost research prompt into a recurring job. Pick a cadence, pick a delivery target, and Datost will run the research on schedule and post the answer into Slack — no one has to remember to ask. A scheduled report is just a saved prompt plus a schedule. When it fires, Datost runs the same AI research agent that powers @Datost mentions, streams the report through your connected data sources, and posts the formatted result to the delivery target you chose.

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Create a schedule

You can create a scheduled report from either Slack or the Datost web app. Both produce the same thing — a row in scheduledResearchJobs that the worker picks up.

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From Slack

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Run the slash command

In any channel or DM where Datost is installed, type /datost schedule create (or just /datost schedule). A modal opens with the full schedule builder.
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Fill out the modal

Give the report a name, paste your research prompt, pick a frequency, time, and timezone, and choose where results should be delivered.
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Submit

Datost creates the schedule in the background and posts a confirmation message to the delivery target with a summary and the commands you’ll use to manage it.
Running /datost schedule from inside a channel defaults the delivery target to that channel. From a DM, it defaults to DM. You can override either way before submitting.

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From the web app

Open Schedules in the Datost web app and click New Schedule. The form mirrors the Slack modal — name, research prompt, frequency, time, timezone, and delivery target — and submits to the same backend.

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Cadence and timezone

Pick one of the built-in frequencies: Daily, Weekdays (Mon–Fri), Weekly on Monday, Weekly on Friday, Every other Monday, or 1st of every month. Combine it with a time-of-day and a timezone, and Datost compiles the pair into a cron expression and computes the next run.
Timezones are IANA zones (e.g. America/New_York, Europe/London, Asia/Tokyo). The worker respects DST — a 9:00 AM ET schedule stays at 9:00 AM local time even when the clocks shift.

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Delivery targets

A scheduled report can post to any Slack surface the Datost bot can reach:
  • DM — Datost sends the result to the user who created the schedule.
  • Channel — Any public or private channel Datost has been invited to.
  • Group chat — A multi-person IM (MPIM). Useful for small stakeholder groups without creating a channel.

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Manage schedules

Every schedule can be paused, resumed, edited, or deleted. Pausing leaves the row intact but skips future runs until you resume it. From Slack:
  • /datost schedule list — List your active and paused schedules
  • /datost schedule pause <id> — Pause a schedule
  • /datost schedule resume <id> — Resume a paused schedule
  • /datost schedule delete <id> — Delete a schedule
From the web app, click any schedule in the Schedules list to open its detail view, then use the pause, edit, or delete controls in the header. Edits go live immediately — the next run is recomputed from the new cadence.
See the Slack slash commands page for the full command reference, including subtle differences between /datost schedule and /datost help.

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Run history and re-runs

Every scheduled run is recorded in scheduledResearchJobRuns with its status (success or failed), duration, and — on failure — the error message. The detail view in the web app surfaces the last run time, last run status, total run count, and any error from the most recent failure.
If a run fails (for example, a warehouse timeout or a transient LLM error), the schedule stays active and retries on its next cadence tick. We don’t auto-retry failed runs mid-cycle to avoid duplicate posts.
To re-run a schedule on demand, open it in the web app and trigger a manual run, or just edit the prompt — saving the schedule does not fire a run, but you can pair it with a one-off @Datost mention in Slack to get the same research immediately.