AI System That Filters News & Writes a Daily Newsletter for 10,000+ Subscribers

What It Does
  • Collects news from X/Twitter, Reddit, any News, blogs, and Google News
  • Scrapes full articles and converts them to clean markdown
  • Picks the top 3–4 stories using an AI editor
  • Writes the headline, summary, insights, and “why it matters”
  • Writes the intro for the newsletter
  • Generates a “Short List” of additional news
  • Assembles everything into a final markdown file
  • Sends the finished newsletter to Slack for quick approval
  • Ready to publish in Beehiiv, Substack, or Mailchimp
The system automates 95% of the entire process.

How It Helps a Service Business Make MoneySends consistent daily content that keeps you top-of-mind
  • Builds authority and positions you as an expert
  • Brings in new clients organically
  • Increases retention and trust
  • Makes your audience feel like you’re always active
  • Opens a new revenue stream through paid newsletters
  • Saves 40–80 hours each month in manual work
For service businesses, this typically leads to $40,000–$70,000 CAD in added annual value from new leads, repeat clients, and saved labour costs.

How the Automation Works (Simple Explanation)
1. News CollectionRSS feeds (via RSS.app) gather sources
  • n8n checks these feeds on a schedule
  • For each article, a sub-workflow uses Firecrawl to scrape full content
  • Content is saved to S3 (organized by date)
  • 2. Newsletter CreationYou pick a date through an n8n form
  • n8n loads all news for that date from S3
  • The AI editor reads all articles and selects the top 3–4
  • Titles and alternatives are generated and sent to Slack
  • AI writes each full story section
  • Writes intro + short list
  • Produces final markdown
  • Sends the finished version to Slack for review
You can approve instantly and publish.

Full Tech Stack Core Automation
  • n8n – main workflow orchestrator
  • Data SourcesRSS.app – RSS feeds for Twitter, Reddit, blogs, HackerNews, Google News
  • Scraping & Content ExtractionFirecrawl API – converts article URLs into clean markdown
  • StorageS3 (AWS or Cloudflare R2) – stores all scraped news by date
  • AI ComponentsGemini / OpenAI / Claude – for:
  • article selection
  • summarization
  • drafting newsletter sections
  • writing headlines and intro
  • CommunicationSlack – for approvals, feedback, and receiving final output
  • PublishingBeehiiv / Substack / Mailchimp – accepts the final markdown for posting
All components are modular and can be swapped or expanded.

How It Handles DataAll scraped content is stored privately in your S3 bucket
  • No public sharing of your content or workflow
  • AI models do not train on your data (optional settings)
  • All API keys remain private
  • Slack channel is encrypted
  • You retain 100% ownership of all generated content
No personal subscriber data is exposed at any step.

Minimum Requirements
No special hardware needed.
You only need:
  • A laptop or PC
  • Slack
  • A newsletter platform (Beehiiv, Substack, Mailchimp)
  • An S3 bucket
  • RSS.app subscription
The rest is fully automated.
Deployment Cost (One-Time)$6,500 CAD
Includes:
  • Full n8n setup
  • Prompt engineering
  • Integrations with RSS.app and Firecrawl
  • S3 setup
  • Slack workflow
  • Daily scheduling
  • Testing & onboarding