§ Recipe

Launch a newsletter.

A newsletter is a discipline, not a product. The tools are just there to remove the 20% of friction that causes you to skip a week. Which is how newsletters die.

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  1. Outline partner

    01

    Claude

    Anthropic's long-context assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and careful reasoning.

    Chatbots & Assistants
    Freemium
    4.8

    Turn a half-formed idea into a structured draft in 10 minutes. Claude is better than any generation tool at preserving your voice if you give it three prior issues as samples.

  2. Research engine

    02

    Perplexity

    AI answer engine for cited web research and fast synthesis.

    Research & Search
    Freemium
    4.6

    Every newsletter is 60% synthesis of what's out there plus 40% your take. Perplexity accelerates the synthesis so you spend the hour on the take.

  3. Edit pass

    03

    Grammarly

    AI writing assistant for grammar, clarity, rewriting, tone, and business communication.

    Writing & Content
    Freemium
    4.5

    You write the newsletter after dinner, tired. Grammarly catches the typos that make a reader unsubscribe. Worth it for that alone.

  4. Header art

    04

    Ideogram

    AI image generator especially strong at legible text, logos, posters, and design graphics.

    Image Generation
    Freemium
    4.3

    One custom illustration per issue, generated in 30 seconds. Turns a newsletter from 'text in an email' into something that looks like a publication.

  5. Social distribution

    05

    Opus Clip

    AI clipping platform that turns long videos into short-form social clips.

    Video & Audio
    Freemium
    4.3

    Newsletter gets turned into short-form clips for LinkedIn, Twitter, and TikTok automatically. One long-form → five short-form. That's the leverage play.