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This walkthrough takes you from an empty Spark workspace to a curated industry-news digest landing in your Slack channel. Most teams finish in under 5 minutes. The rest of the time is waiting for the next morning’s delivery.
Before you start
  • A TalkValue workspace on the Pro plan. Spark is included with TalkValue Pro.
  • A Slack workspace where you can install apps (or where a workspace admin can approve installs for you).
  • The Slack channel you want the digest delivered to.

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Run the full flow

1

Sign in and start the onboarding wizard

Sign in at app.trytalkvalue.com and open Spark. New workspaces open the Set up your digest wizard automatically. The first step asks for your community’s website URL. Spark analyzes the page to suggest categories that match.
2

Review the suggested categories

The wizard’s analyzer reads your site and pre-selects up to three categories from the eight available. Adjust the picks if needed. Every Spark digest needs at least one category and accepts at most three. See Set up categories for the full list and what each one means.
3

Connect Slack

The next step opens Slack’s OAuth flow. Approve the install (or send the install request to your workspace admin if your Slack workspace restricts third-party apps), then come back to Spark. See Connect Slack for the OAuth screen, the permissions Spark requests, and what each connection state means.
4

Pick the delivery channel

Once Slack is connected, choose the channel the digest should be posted in. The picker lists every channel Spark can see: public channels by default, private channels once the bot is invited.
5

Confirm your delivery schedule

By default the first digest publishes the next morning at 9:00 AM in the America/New_York timezone. Change the time or zone from the News page header anytime. See Digest schedule.
6

Wait for the first delivery

Spark spends the first hour fetching and ranking stories for your categories. The News page shows the in-progress collection state and switches to the daily digest view once stories are ready. Your first Slack message lands at the scheduled time the next morning.

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What’s next

Set up categories

The eight categories you can pick from, and how to change them later.

Connect Slack

OAuth flow, channel picker, permissions, and connection states.

Digest schedule

Pick the time and timezone for daily delivery.

Reach overview

Measure your community’s social reach once the digest is running.