Honest look at what's working, what's being built, and what we're learning along the way
📰 Newsletter Automation - SHIPPED ✅
Weekly career intelligence newsletter for workers navigating AI disruption
Key insight: "The skill caught an error I'd made manually - employment data was wrong year. It's not just faster, it's MORE reliable."
📊 Data Gathering Intelligence - IN PROGRESS ⚠️
Automated monitoring of 40+ sources for employment data, infrastructure news, and policy developments
Reality check: "Right now, data gathering requires AI-assisted research conversations for each newsletter. It works, but it's time-intensive. Goal: Automated monitoring → structured intelligence briefs → feed multiple outputs. This is the highest-value automation, building it using patterns learned from newsletter skill."
📁 Wayback Archiving - PARTIALLY AUTOMATED ⚠️
Batch processing source URLs with permanent archiving for investigative journalism credibility
Reality check: "Batch processor works for successful archives. Failures still need manual attention and recording. Not fully automated yet, but iterating toward smart retry logic. Protects credibility of all investigative claims - too important not to get right."