Draft and approve LinkedIn posts from a Google Sheet

AI drafts a LinkedIn post from your notes and emails it to you for approval before it's used.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. A person has to approve before it continues.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Social Media ManagementEmail AutomationSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google SheetsGmailOpenAILinkedIn

The problem it solves

Coming up with LinkedIn content regularly is hard to keep up with, and handing it off to someone else means extra review steps before anything gets posted. You want a consistent posting habit without writing every post from scratch.

Who it fits

Marketing teams or business owners who post regularly on LinkedIn but want a review step before content goes out.

How it works

  1. The system checks your Google Sheet on a schedule for a pending post idea
  2. AI writes a LinkedIn post using your description and instructions
  3. Any listed image is pulled in for reference
  4. An approval email is sent with the draft and an accept or reject option
  5. You approve or edit the post before it's used
What you get

Post drafts ready for your review

You get a LinkedIn post drafted from your notes and sent to your inbox so you can approve or edit it before it goes out.

What you get

A drafted LinkedIn post and an approval email, so nothing goes out without a review.

What you need

A Google account, a Gmail 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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