2–6 wks Build, fixed price30k → 64k subscribers in 6 months−50% editorial time per edition90 days Stabilisation included
What's in the build
Six pieces, one workflow.
Sources in, signal out. A daily curated brief your audience pays for, on autopilot.
01 · Source ingestion
RSS, X, web, podcasts, filings — one queue.
Configure sources by category. App polls daily, ingests, deduplicates, normalises. The editor opens one queue, not eighteen tabs.
RSS / X / web / podcast / SEC
Per-source poll cadence
Deduplication
One-queue normalisation
02 · AI summarisation
Long form in. Editorial card out.
Each item summarised: 60-word brief, 3 key points, recommended angle. Editor approves or rewrites. The blank-page work is gone; the judgment work remains.
60-word brief
Key-points extraction
Angle recommendation
Editor edit-in-place
03 · Editorial queue
What's tomorrow's lead.
Editor sees ranked queue: by relevance score, by exclusivity, by source quality. Drag-drop into tomorrow's edition. The line-up gets done in 30 minutes.
Relevance scoring
Exclusivity flag
Source-quality weighting
Drag-drop edition builder
04 · Newsletter publish
Substack / beehiiv / Ghost wired.
Approved edition pushes to your newsletter platform with images, links, sponsor blocks, footer. Schedule or send-now. Cross-post to social with one click.
Newsletter platform push
Sponsor block injection
Image auto-pull
Social cross-post
05 · Audience analytics
What they opened, what they clicked, what converted.
Open / click / forward / unsubscribe per item. Heat map of which stories drove subscriptions vs which drove unsubscribes. Editorial decisions on data.
Per-item open + click
Forward + share tracking
Conversion-by-story
Unsub-cause analysis
06 · Source performance
Which sources matter, which to drop.
Sources scored by yield (items used / items ingested), audience response, exclusivity. Underperformers flagged. The aggregation gets sharper over time.
Source-yield scoring
Audience-response weighting
Exclusivity tracking
Auto-drop suggestions
Sample engagement
The B2B newsletter that doubled subscribers without doubling editorial.
30k subscribers. One editor. Six hours a day, just reading.
A B2B fintech newsletter editor spent ~6 hours/day reading sources before writing. Subscriber growth had stalled at 30k. We shipped a curation app: 28 sources, AI summary, ranked queue. Six months in: subscriber base 64k, editorial time per edition halved, per-edition revenue up 71% (more sponsor slots, same editor).
How we measure: Subscribers measured monthly via newsletter platform export, editorial time logged via the editor's calendar, revenue measured per-edition sponsor billings.
30k → 64ksubscribers in 6 months
−50%editorial time per edition
+71%revenue per edition
Industries this is built for
Where this build earns its rent.
Most-relevant verticals — but the same shape works for adjacent ones.