Turn RSS feeds into AI summaries in Google Sheets

The system checks your RSS feeds, skips articles you've already seen, and saves an AI summary of each new one.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each new article found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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

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

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsReporting & AnalyticsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Google SheetsOpenRouterGemini

The problem it solves

You want to stay on top of industry news and competitor content, but reading every article from every feed takes too long. Important pieces get buried in your inbox or you just stop checking altogether.

Who it fits

Content creators, marketers, or researchers tracking multiple news or blog feeds.

How it works

  1. On a schedule, the system checks your list of RSS feeds
  2. It filters out articles you've already seen using your spreadsheet
  3. It pulls the full article and converts it into readable text
  4. AI writes a summary with the key takeaways and practical points
  5. The summary is saved to your spreadsheet, ready to share
What you get

Articles read for you before you dive in

Your RSS feeds get checked for new articles and summarized into a spreadsheet with the key takeaways up front.

What you get

A running spreadsheet of new articles with AI-written summaries and key takeaways.

What you need

A Google account and an OpenRouter 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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