Day 1 Build - Automated Newsletter · AI Automation Society

Day 1 Build - Automated Newsletter

What I built:

A fully automated newsletter system using Claude Code that researches a topic, writes the content, designs it in my brand, and outputs a ready-to-send HTML email. First time ever using Claude Code. 🤯

One thing that clicked for me:

The CLAUDE.md file is everything. Once I dropped my brand guidelines in there — my colours, fonts, tone of voice, target audience — Claude Code just knew. It stopped writing for corporate AI companies and started writing for Pilates studio owners. That moment when I saw my actual brand colours and fonts in the output... I was not ready 😭

One thing I'd improve next iteration:

The content topic was still a bit broad. Next time I want to give it a more specific studio owner problem — like cancellations or waitlist gaps — so the writing gets even more targeted to my audience.

Honest reflection: I had no idea what I was doing half the time. I just said yes to every bash command and trusted the process 😂 But that's the point right? You don't need to understand everything — you just need to keep moving.

On to Day 2 — MCP servers 👀🌿

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