Lab, a personal project
The morning briefing
A scheduled pipeline that researches the news with an LLM and emails a short HTML brief every morning.
- Services
- Automation
- Stack
- An LLM, A cloud machine, HTML email
- Updated
Context
This one is a personal project. It answers one question before the day starts: what happened that is worth knowing about?
It is also a working example of a pattern that suits small businesses: let a model do the reading, and send people the short version.
Problem
News arrives all day from too many places, and reading it well takes time most mornings do not have.
A plain feed of headlines does not solve it. The useful part is the research: what a story means, and what else it connects to.
Approach
The pipeline runs on a schedule. It fetches the sources, runs an agentic research pass with an LLM that follows up on the stories worth following, then an editorial pass that cuts the result down to a brief.
The brief goes out as an HTML email every morning.
It runs on a cloud machine that stays stopped by default and starts on a timer, so it costs money only while it works.
Outcome
The brief is scheduled for every morning, and the machine sleeps the rest of the day.
Stack
- An LLMthe research and editorial passes
- A cloud machinestopped by default, started on a timer
- HTML emailthe brief itself
Tell us what you are working on.
A few lines about your business is enough to start. We reply with questions and a plain next step.