Send subscribers an AI-summarized news digest automatically

Pulls the latest headlines, summarizes them with AI, and emails a personalized digest to every subscriber on your list.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each subscriber on list.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsEmail AutomationSpreadsheet & Database OpsReporting & AnalyticsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
NewsAPIOpenAIGoogle SheetsGmail

The problem it solves

Curating a news digest by hand means reading through dozens of headlines, picking what matters, and writing it up before you can send anything out. Doing this consistently on a schedule eats into time you would rather spend elsewhere.

Who it fits

Newsletter creators, team leads, and content curators who send a regular news roundup to their audience.

How it works

  1. On a set schedule, the system fetches the latest headlines from a news source
  2. AI reads the headlines and writes a short, easy-to-read summary
  3. Your subscriber list is pulled from Google Sheets
  4. A personalized digest email is sent to each subscriber
What you get

A digest subscribers actually open

Your subscribers get a personalized news digest in their inbox, summarized and ready to read.

What you get

A ready-to-send news digest email, personalized for each subscriber on your list.

What you need

A NewsAPI account, an OpenAI account, a Google Sheets account, and a Gmail account.

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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