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AI Daily Briefing

An automated daily briefing covering AI and programming. n8n triggers the flow, fetches and organizes news, OpenAI turns it into a podcast script, ElevenLabs generates the narration, and AWS hosts the published files. The result is a ready-to-listen audio briefing with a transcript and sources.

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Project summary

Role

Product, automation, and integration architecture

Audience

Professionals who need to keep up with AI without wasting time

Tools

n8n, OpenAI API, ElevenLabs, AWS (S3, CloudFront, EC2)

Outcome

First working version in under 4 hours

Context

Personal project created to solve a real need: keeping up with the fast pace of AI news without spending time manually filtering information.

Business problem

The volume of AI and programming news is too high to follow manually. Newsletters and feeds help, but require reading time and curation that isn't always available.

Audience & personas

  • Professionals working with AI and technology
  • People who want to stay updated without wasting time
  • Teams that need a quick, reliable summary

Adoption barriers

  • Too many sources and fragmented information
  • No time for daily curation
  • Difficulty keeping up consistently

Solution design

  • Automated flow in n8n with daily trigger
  • News collection and organization from reliable sources
  • Script generation via OpenAI API
  • Audio narration via ElevenLabs
  • Automatic publication on AWS with transcript and sources

Assets created

  • Automation pipeline in n8n
  • Briefing script template
  • Publication infrastructure on AWS

Metrics & signals

  • First functional version developed in under 4 hours
  • Daily briefing with audio, transcript, and sources
  • End-to-end pipeline: collection → curation → script → narration → publication

Lessons learned

Good automation doesn't need to be complex. The value is in connecting the right tools with a clear flow.

Next improvements

Add topic personalization, Portuguese version, and distribution via RSS and podcast platforms.