Publish a weekly AI news newsletter to Google Docs automatically

Every week it researches the latest AI news, writes it up in Google Docs, and emails you the link.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2)

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Starts itA stepEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Email AutomationSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market IntelligenceFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DocsGoogle DriveGoogle SheetsGmailOpenAI

The problem it solves

Keeping up with AI news every week means digging through dozens of sources and then writing up a clean summary before anyone can read it. You'd rather have the roundup land in your inbox ready to go, without doing the research yourself.

Who it fits

Newsletter writers, marketing teams, or anyone who needs to track AI news for their audience.

How it works

  1. On a weekly schedule, the system starts a new run
  2. AI searches for and summarizes the latest AI news stories
  3. A new Google Doc is created with formatted article summaries
  4. The doc is filed into a dated folder in Google Drive
  5. You get an email with a link to the finished newsletter
What you get

Newsletters drafted and filed weekly

You get a fresh, formatted AI news roundup written and filed in Google Docs every week, with a link sent to your inbox.

What you get

A formatted Google Doc newsletter with the week's top AI news, filed in Drive and logged in a spreadsheet.

What you need

A Google Workspace account and an OpenAI API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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