Send subscribers a personalized daily newsletter automatically

Each day, the automation pulls new content, summarizes it with AI, and emails every subscriber only what matches their interests.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per subscriber.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Email AutomationWeb Scraping & Data Collection
Connects
Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft OutlookOpenAI

The problem it solves

Putting together a daily newsletter means gathering new content, writing summaries, and making sure each subscriber only gets what they actually care about. Doing this by hand every day isn't sustainable.

Who it fits

Anyone running a daily or recurring newsletter with subscribers who have different topic interests.

How it works

  1. Runs automatically on a daily schedule
  2. Pulls the subscriber list and topic preferences from a spreadsheet
  3. Fetches new content matching the topics subscribers follow
  4. Uses AI to write short summaries for each item
  5. Emails a personalized digest to each subscriber automatically
What you get

A newsletter tailored to each subscriber's interests

Every subscriber gets a daily digest written around exactly the topics they care about.

What you get

A personalized daily email newsletter sent to every subscriber based on their chosen topics.

What you need

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, a Microsoft Outlook account, and an OpenAI 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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