Draft a newsletter from top AI news sources with OpenAI and Slack

Gathers the day's top AI news, drafts a newsletter, and sends it to Slack for your approval before publishing.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Repeats editor requests changes; a person has to approve before it continues.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21)

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Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Email AutomationMessaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
OpenAIAnthropicGoogle SheetsSlackReddit

The problem it solves

You want to send a sharp AI newsletter regularly, but scanning a dozen sites for real news and writing a draft eats your whole morning. By the time you've curated the stories, you barely have energy left to write them up well.

Who it fits

A newsletter editor or content creator covering AI and tech news for a subscriber list.

How it works

  1. Pulls new stories from a wide range of tech news sources and forums
  2. Uses OpenAI to filter out noise and keep only the most relevant stories
  3. Writes a full newsletter draft with a subject line, intro, and story summaries
  4. Sends the draft to Slack so you can approve it or ask for changes
  5. Revises the draft based on your feedback and prepares the final version
What you get

A newsletter draft ready for your final read

You get a ready-to-edit newsletter draft built from the day's top AI stories, delivered to Slack for your review each morning.

What you get

A ready-to-send newsletter draft, plus a log of every story considered.

What you need

OpenAI and Anthropic API access, a Google Sheets account for tracking stories, and a Slack workspace.

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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