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AI newsletter summarizer that drafts your weekly issue in Notion.

Every Monday, Claude pulls this week's RSS-tracked stories, picks 8, and drafts a full editorial newsletter with headline, intro, and per-story blurbs.

How Pilotran works

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What a real run looks like
Week 37 issue of Ops Weekly drafted in Notion — 8 stories, 3 themes.
Monday schedule pulled 43 stories from your feeds. Claude picked 8, grouped into 3 themes, and drafted the full issue in your Notion drafts DB.
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Notion draft: Ops Weekly — Week 37 *Headline:* When reliability becomes a marketing decision *Intro:* An odd theme in this week's reading: three separate stories where a company's reliability posture — how loudly they own failure — did more customer-acquisition work than any ad campaign. Cloudflare, Amazon's warehouse-error refund story, and the postmortem from a small SaaS that went viral. Sameness rhymes. *Sections:* ▸ Reliability as marketing 1. Cloudflare's 3-hour outage postmortem — TechCrunch 2. "Why we published every incident" — Chartable blog 3. Amazon's warehouse-refund story — Bloomberg ▸ AI-native tooling 4. n8n hits 1,000 nodes — TechCrunch 5. Zapier's AI-first pivot — The Verge 6. Anthropic's MCP goes GA — Anthropic ▸ Marketing ops in flux 7. GA4 sunset controversy — Search Engine Land 8. HubSpot's new AI SDR — HubSpot blog *Editor's note:* If you're building a company right now, publish one postmortem this quarter. Even if nothing broke.
How this workflow runs
Press enter or space to select a node. You can then use the arrow keys to move the node around. Press delete to remove it and escape to cancel.
Press enter or space to select an edge. You can then press delete to remove it or escape to cancel.
Under the hood — the exact prompt Claude sees
You are the editor of {{newsletter_name}}. Voice: {{editor_voice}}. From the stories below, pick 8, group them by theme, and draft this week's issue. Reply with JSON only: {"headline": string, "intro": string, "sections": [{"theme": string, "stories": [{"title": string, "link": string, "blurb": string}]}], "outro": string, "editors_note": string}. Blurbs are 40–60 words, plain prose, no emoji, no hype. Intro under 90 words with a clear point of view. Stories: {{stories}}
What you configure

Fields you provide once.

Claude uses these on every run — set them during activation.

RSS feed URLs (one per line)
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Notion drafts database ID
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Newsletter name
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Editor voice (one sentence)
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Frequently askedQuestions about AI Newsletter Curator+
How long does it take to set up AI Newsletter Curator?+

About 60 seconds. Connect Notion, fill in the plain-English fields the template asks for, and hit Activate. Pilotran runs the workflow once against sample data so you can see what Claude does before it touches your real accounts.

Can I edit AI Newsletter Curator after activating it?+

Yes — pause, edit the prompt, tweak the fields, or delete the workflow at any time from your Workflows page. Paused workflows keep their run history and can be resumed later.

Which AI model runs my workflow?+

Every workflow uses Anthropic's Claude by default. On any paid plan you can add your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key and pay providers directly for unlimited runs — Pilotran only meters when it's on our shared credits.

Does Pilotran train AI models on my data?+

No. Your workflow data is only used to execute the workflows you activated. We do not train models on your data or share it with third parties.

What happens if a run fails?+

Pilotran's Failure Doctor auto-explains what broke (bad credentials, invalid input, provider rate limit, etc.) and suggests a fix. Failed runs don't disappear — you can retry any run from the Runs page.

Guides for this workflow
Guide
How to summarize newsletters with AI (and email yourself one digest).
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