Your newsletter should assemble itself. You should just hit send.
The Newsletter Autopilot shows you how to use Claude to pull your latest stories, pick the ones worth a slot, and write the issue in your publication's voice. Build it from a ten-minute morning routine all the way to an agent that delivers finished drafts to your email platform on schedule.
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The system behind the newsletters at Active NorCal and The SacraMemo. Our issues draft themselves on schedule, every week, right now.
Everything between your last post and a ready-to-send issue.
No theory. Six working pieces, built from the system running in our own newsrooms.
The ten-minute morning routine for turning your latest stories into a complete issue draft, starting tomorrow with nothing but a Claude account.
Copy-paste prompts for story selection and full issue assembly, including subject lines and preview text in ten styles.
A five-point scoring rubric that puts your story judgment in writing, so the lineup gets picked the way you would pick it.
A newsletter voice guide and issue structure spec so every draft comes back in your shape and your sound, not the model's.
The plain-language architecture for a scheduled agent that fetches your posts, writes the issue, and leaves a finished draft in your email platform before you pour coffee.
A four-minute pre-send checklist and trust playbook so the speed never costs you your standard or your subscribers' trust.
Start with ten minutes. End with an autopilot.
The guide is built as a progression. Stop at whichever stage fits your newsroom, every level works on its own.
The morning assist
Paste your voice examples and today's stories into one prompt. Get back a complete issue draft. Edit and send. Zero setup.
The connected workflow
Your CMS feeds the system through its built-in feed or API and a scoring rubric does the triage. The lineup picks itself, your way.
The autopilot
A scheduled agent drafts the whole issue, claims the ad slots, and leaves it in your email platform. You review for four minutes and send.
Every stage ends at a draft. A human owns the send button. That part is permanent.
Assembly is not your job. Judgment is. This guide gives you the hours back to do it.
THE FIELD GUIDE SERIES · No. 02 of an ongoing set · Missed No. 01? The Press Release Engine covers the front half of the pipeline.
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