> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gildea.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Recipes

> Five recipes that chain into one workflow: discover, retrieve, verify, embed, refresh.

The recipes form one workflow: build a verified view of an AI-market question, then keep it current. Each one takes the previous step's output, so they read in order.

A **signal** is a source: an essay, podcast episode, or newsworthy event. Gildea decomposes each into verified **units**: its individual sentences and claims. Themes tag the signal; entities tag both the signal and its units.

Discover works bottom-up: the data surfaces which themes and entities matter right now. Retrieve works top-down: you pull the verified units from the signals in your scope. Verify and Embed both act on those units, one (optionally) checks a unit against its source, the other saves it alongside your own data. Refresh pulls only what changed as new signals land.

| Step                       | What it produces                         | Consumes             |
| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| [Discover](/guides/scope)  | the entities and themes to focus on      | the live market      |
| [Retrieve](/guides/search) | the verified units from signals in scope | your scope           |
| [Verify](/guides/verify)   | a unit checked against its source        | a unit from Retrieve |
| [Embed](/guides/embed)     | units saved alongside your own data      | units from Retrieve  |
| [Refresh](/guides/update)  | the signals that changed in scope        | a saved cursor       |

You don't have to run all five. Start at [Discover](/guides/scope) when you don't yet know what to track; start at [Retrieve](/guides/search) when you already do.