Automatically summarize RSS news and log it to Google Sheets

Pulls articles from your RSS feeds, summarizes them with AI, and saves the results into Google Sheets every day.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs; runs once per each new rss article.

Pattern: Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14) ยท Parallel Split (2)

flowchart TD trig(["daily RSS feed pull"]):::trigtime s0[["Fetch new RSS articles"]]:::mi s1["Skip already-stored articles"]:::task s2["Clean and strip article"]:::task s3["Summarize article with AI"]:::svc trig --> s0 s0 --> s1 s1 --> s2 s2 --> s3 gx{"+ where to save summary"}:::gate s3 --> gx p00["Save to archive sheet"]:::task gx -->|"permanent archive"| p00 p10["Save to digest sheet"]:::task gx -->|"daily digest"| p10 p00 --> out p10 --> out out[/"Daily AI news digest saved"/]:::out pay{{"Stay informed without reading everything"}}:::pay out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Knowledge Base & RAGSpreadsheet & Database OpsReporting & AnalyticsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Google SheetsGoogle Gemini

The problem it solves

You want to stay on top of industry news, but reading every article that comes through your feeds takes hours you don't have. Important stories get buried in cluttered pages full of ads, and by the time you get to them the news is already stale.

Who it fits

A business owner or team that wants a curated news digest without reading full articles.

How it works

  1. New articles arrive from your chosen RSS feeds
  2. The system checks the date and skips articles you've already stored
  3. It reads the full article and strips out ads and clutter
  4. Google Gemini summarizes each article into key takeaways
  5. The summary is saved to Google Sheets, both a permanent archive and a daily digest
What you get

News digests you never had before

You get a daily spreadsheet digest of key articles from your chosen feeds, summarized and ready to skim each morning.

What you get

A running Google Sheets archive of AI-written article summaries, plus a fresh daily digest sheet.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and a Google Gemini 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.

Let's Talk Strategy

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