The Pipeline Approach
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The Pipeline Approach
The insight that changed how I think about this is separating concerns.
Most people write newsletters as a single monolithic task: sit down, research, draft, edit, send. Everything blurred together. This makes it hard to automate because each stage requires different tools and different types of thinking.
The pipeline approach treats each stage as its own job with its own inputs and outputs:
- Topic selection — Which idea from the backlog gets this week’s issue?
- Research — What does the newsletter-researcher agent find?
- Outline — What structure does this research support?
- Draft — What does the newsletter-writer agent produce from that outline?
- Review — What does the draft-reviewer agent flag and fix?
- Polish — Final read, any editorial decisions that need a human call
- Queue — Schedule in Kit.com
Each stage has a clear input, a clear output, and a clear boundary. Stages 2, 4, and 5 can run largely automated. Stages 1, 3, 6, and 7 benefit from human judgement but don’t need to be slow.
The rest of this course builds that pipeline, stage by stage.
Module 2 gets into the architecture: what the content-pipeline skill actually does and how to build something like it for your own newsletter.