Alerts and digests
PulseSignal delivers what it observes through two channels: a digest email on the cadence you choose, and same-day alerts for critical events. This page explains what lands where, how severity levels work, and every control you have over volume, channel, and cadence.
The daily digest email
The digest is one email that collects the change events detected across your watchlist since the last digest. Events come from every signal module (pricing, leadership, hiring, API and integrations, product launches, customer logos, customer sentiment, tech stack, positioning, and funding), and each one carries the source URL it was derived from, so you can verify it in one click.
Two filters decide what makes it into your copy: the severity floor (events below it are excluded) and the event-type filter (an empty filter means all events that pass the severity floor are included). Both are set in Settings → Digest preferences. The digest email is included on every plan.
Critical alerts
Some changes should not wait for the next digest. Events at the critical severity level are dispatched as same-day alerts on every plan, Starter included. They also still appear in the digest, so the digest remains a complete record of the period.
On Pro and above you can go further with custom alert rules and webhooks: define your own conditions in Alerts and route matching events to the channel of your choice, including your own endpoint (see webhook signature verification).
Severity levels
Every change event carries one of three severity levels. They describe how much the event is likely to matter, not how large the underlying diff was:
- Info: routine, low-stakes observations. Useful for a complete record, rarely worth an interruption.
- Notable: meaningful changes worth reading in the digest, such as a product or positioning shift you would want to know about this week.
- Critical: high-impact changes that are dispatched same-day in addition to the digest.
Severity is assigned per event by the pipeline that detected it. The exact rules vary by signal module, so treat the levels as a reading priority rather than a numeric threshold.
Digest preferences
Settings → Digest preferences controls everything about the digest:
- Cadence: off, daily, weekly, or realtime.
- Severity floor: info, notable, or critical. Events below the floor are excluded from the digest.
- Event-type filter: pick specific event types to include. Leaving it empty includes everything that passes the severity floor.
- RSS: an RSS feed you can enable alongside or instead of email, for readers and internal tools.
Per-module routing
If one signal module is noisier than you want (say, hiring), you do not have to lower the floor for everything. Settings → Alert preferences lets you turn off push and email-digest entries for individual modules. Muting a module affects delivery only; the data keeps flowing into the dashboard, so nothing is lost when you unmute.
Settings → Notifications is the map of all of this: it links severity routing, digest preferences, and delivery channels from one place, alongside your marketing email opt-ins.
Slack, Teams, and Telegram
On Pro and above, same-day alerts can be delivered to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Telegram in addition to email. Starter is email only.
To connect Slack, go to Settings → Integrations, connect the workspace, and pick the channel. Telegram and Teams are set up from the same place. Manage all connected destinations, including webhooks, from Channels. Per-event-type subscriptions are set in Alerts.
Pausing and unsubscribing
You are always a couple of clicks from silence:
- Pause the digest: set the cadence to off in Digest preferences. Turn it back on any time; dashboard data is unaffected while paused.
- Quiet a module: mute it in Alert preferences without touching the rest.
- Marketing email: the unsubscribe link in every marketing email is the authoritative, account-wide opt-out. Opt-in toggles also live in Settings → Notifications.
One exception: billing receipts (invoices and payment-failed notices) are required service email and cannot be disabled while you have an active subscription.