Turn news feeds into Medium articles with team approval

Pulls in fresh news, drafts a Medium article with AI, and publishes it once your team approves it in Slack.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs; a person has to approve before it continues.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2)

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Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Social Media ManagementEmail AutomationMessaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
MediumSlackGoogle DocsGoogle DriveGoogle SheetsGmail

The problem it solves

Keeping a Medium publication active means constantly finding fresh stories, writing them up, and getting them out the door. Doing this consistently by hand takes more time than most small teams have. You want quality content going out regularly without someone drafting every article from scratch.

Who it fits

A content team or publisher who wants to keep a Medium publication active without writing every article manually.

How it works

  1. New articles are pulled from your chosen news feeds on a schedule
  2. AI drafts a Medium-style article and a matching cover image
  3. A draft is created in Google Docs for review
  4. The draft is sent to Slack for a team member to approve or reject
  5. Approved articles are published to Medium and archived automatically
What you get

Articles that keep your Medium page active

Fresh news gets turned into a drafted Medium article with a cover image, ready for your team to approve and publish.

What you get

A published Medium article, plus an archived copy in Google Drive and a record in Google Sheets.

What you need

A Medium account, a Slack workspace, a Google Workspace account, and an AI service.

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.

Let's Talk Strategy

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