The open-source template
Cloned from the public GitHub repository and configured to your beat, brand, and source list. You own the code and the subscriber data from day one. No vendor lock-in.
A day in the life
Four crons, one editorial loop
Once the skill has set it up, the system runs four scheduled jobs. You touch one button per issue, on the days you want to.
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Daily fetch
Pulls every RSS feed on your list. Mistral translates anything outside your newsletter's language, categorises each article into your sections, and scores it for relevance to your beat.
Mistral · RSS07:00
Draft preview
Composes the issue — subject line, intro, glossary, and a one-line editorial note per article — and emails a preview to you with three buttons: Regenerate, Send Now, or Discard.
MJML · 3-button preview08:00
Dispatch
If you clicked Send Now, the issue goes out immediately. If you didn't click anything, the dispatcher auto-sends an hour after the preview. The system never sends without your button or that timeout, and never sends twice.
Brevo · idempotentSun 23:00
Editorial distill
Reads the week's regenerate notes and distills them into permanent, plain-English editorial rules. Stored in a Markdown file you can read and edit. After four to six weeks, the newsletter sounds like you.
Markdown · permanentThe editorial loop · interactive
Watch a week of notes turn into permanent rules
Every regenerate note you write during the week feeds a Sunday job that distills the lot into editorial rules — plain English, in a Markdown file you can read and edit. No fine-tuning, no black box.
This week · 5 regenerate notesnotes-2026-w25.txt
- Too US-centric — we cover EU regulation primarily.
- Lead with the regulation angle, not the company name.
- Avoid hyperbolic words like "unprecedented".
- Section names should describe the area, not the abstract idea.
- Keep editorial notes under two sentences.
Editorial ruleseditorial-rules.md
Empty until Sunday 23:00.
Rules accumulate over time — readable, editable, yours.
Rules accumulate over time — readable, editable, yours.
A live mock of the real Sunday job. Plain-English rules, stored in a Markdown file you can read and edit.
What you'll get after a 15-minute conversation
No commitments. An open-source template you own outright, plus a guided setup that takes about an hour — most of it spent waiting on DNS propagation and Scaleway function builds.
Outlook-perfect rendering
Emails compiled through MJML — the same engine the big newsletter platforms use internally. Looks identical in Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo, Thunderbird, and the Outlook desktop versions enterprises still run.
An editorial loop that compounds
Your weekly regenerate notes turn into permanent, plain-English editorial rules stored in a Markdown file you can read and edit. No fine-tuning, no black box. After a month, the newsletter sounds like you.
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