Monthly Portfolio Newsletter Drafter

Automatically generate monthly investor updates by gathering portfolio company achievements and news
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Steps in this workflow

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Trigger
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Create table of portfolio companies
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Loop over a list
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Get LinkedIn person posts
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Do web research
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Write with AI
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Create document

Automatically generate a monthly newsletter showcasing your portfolio companies' recent achievements and milestones. The workflow gathers information from founders' LinkedIn posts and performs web research to find important events like fundraises, product launches, and customer announcements. Using AI, it compiles this information into a professionally written newsletter draft. The final output is saved as a Google Doc that you can review and customize before sending to your investors.

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Trigger

Runs automatically on a scheduled basis to start the newsletter creation process. The schedule frequency should be configured to match your newsletter cadence.

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Create table of portfolio companies

Creates a table containing portfolio company information including company names, websites, and founder LinkedIn profiles. This table serves as the data source for researching each company.

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Loop over a list

Processes each portfolio company from the table in parallel. For every company, it executes the research steps to gather recent updates and achievements.

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Get LinkedIn person posts

Retrieves recent posts from the founder's LinkedIn profile using the provided URL. These posts help identify company updates and milestones shared by the founder.

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Do web research

Performs web research to find important events from the past month including fundraises, product launches, and customer announcements. The AI searches for relevant news and updates about the company.

Prompt used
We are preparing a monthly newsletter on [data] ([data]). Please find any important events from the past month: - fundraises - launches - customer announcements - etc
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Write with AI

Generates a newsletter draft using AI based on the collected LinkedIn posts and web research findings. The AI compiles all portfolio company updates into a cohesive narrative highlighting their achievements.

Prompt used
We are writing a newsletter about our portfolio companies highlighting their achievements in the past month. Given the raw information about each company, write a draft.
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Create document

Creates a new Google Doc containing the AI-generated newsletter content. The document is saved to a specified folder with a title that includes the current date.

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