# Morning Brief Preview - February 11, 2026

## Overnight Activities

### ✅ Industry Scan Complete
**Key Market Developments:**
- **Steel Crisis Deepening**: Australian steel businesses under severe pressure from 50% cheaper Asian imports. Industry at "crisis point" with government considering protective tariffs.
- **Labour Market Shift**: Skills shortage continues but new worker demand down from 2025 levels. NSW workers comp reforms passed, easing pressure on builders.
- **Construction Outlook**: Building approvals slowing, housing shortage growing. Industrial/logistics market strengthening - opportunity area.
- **Regulatory Changes**: NSW building legislation amendments give regulators more power, improve consumer protection.

### ⚠️ Lead Research Partial
- Attempted fresh lead research from job boards (Seek, Indeed, Jora, Gumtree)
- Major platforms blocking automated access
- Research agent gathered company contacts but timed out before file update
- Current fresh-leads.json still contains January 21 data

## Action Items for Today
1. **Manual lead research** - Direct company website research needed
2. **Industrial project focus** - Market strengthening in this sector
3. **Steel alternative positioning** - Crisis creates opportunity for non-steel methods

## Competitive Intelligence
- Airtasker issued 457k new shares under employee incentive scheme
- General recruitment trends show skills shortages as top challenge
- DEI becoming measurable KPI in recruitment

*Full industry scan saved to memory/nightly-scan.md*