Curate newsletter sources and first drafts with a writer Bot
After two days of testing, Ryan Carr of a done-for-you newsletter agency found Grok Bot's drafts matched his cadence and its curation found better sources than vanilla Claude.
Explain it simply
A team that writes newsletters for other businesses tried a set of AI assistants: one finds stories, one writes drafts, one plans social posts. After two days, the drafts sounded like them and the research found better sources than the AI they normally use. The drafts still needed a human edit.
What was done
Ryan Carr writes the Moodboard newsletter, and his team runs Tailwind, a done-for-you newsletter agency. He ran existing Moodboard and Tailwind workflows through a team of Grok Bots: a newsletter writer, a social strategist and a researcher.
He pointed it at LinkedIn to pull content themes: what's landing, what people keep writing about and where the gaps are.
How it went
After two days he reported drafts close to his cadence that still needed a human pass, research that returned usable patterns instead of a dump of posts, and stronger large-scale curation than vanilla Claude.
- Early impressions after 48 hours, not a client result.
- He isn't switching yet: his projects and prompts live in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, with no clean migration path.
- Beta gaps he hit: no one-click 'open in Google Drive' and no per-client project knowledge sidebar.
Prompt
You're my newsletter researcher for [publication] (audience: [who]).
Every [Tuesday], collect 25 candidate stories from [sources] published in the last 7 days. Skip anything the big outlets already covered unless there's a new angle.
For each, give a one-line summary, why our readers care, and the link.
Then hand the top 8 to the Newsletter Writer Bot to draft the issue in our voice, using [last 3 issues] as examples. Park the draft for my edit.Setup notes
- Create a researcher Bot, a writer Bot and, optionally, a social Bot.
- Give the writer three past issues as voice examples.
- Schedule the research routine the day before your writing day.
- Keep the final edit and the send with you.
Business fit
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