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Workflow example: Newsletter Agent

A week of industry news, read for you.

The Newsletter Agent reads every trade newsletter that arrived this week, keeps only what moves your business, and writes a brief in your team's terms with the source on every item. It is ready to send on Monday morning.

The problem

Too much to read, and most of it isn't for you.

Staying current in a market like aerospace means a dozen or more newsletters a day. Fleet data, traffic statistics, OEM production news, budget markups. Most items don't matter to your business. The ones that do rarely say why: an airline extending leases on older aircraft is a spares story, but the article won't tell you that.

So the reading either eats a manager's week or doesn't get done. The Newsletter Agent does the reading and draws the connection to your business.

How the workflow runs

Five stages, from inbox to inboxes.

  1. Collect

    Pull the week's news

    A dedicated inbox subscribed to the sector's trade press. The agent gathers the week's emails and the articles they link to.

  2. Enrich

    Add context

    This week's SEC filings from tracked companies, their reported financials, and past issues, so a story is set against what came before.

  3. Analyze

    Filter and explain

    A model of your choice, Claude or GPT, works from a prompt written for one reader. It drops what's irrelevant and ties each item to what drives demand.

  4. Review

    Read it in the portal

    Each week's issue sits on a calendar. Read it, compare models, or generate it again before anything goes out.

  5. Deliver

    Send it, or schedule it

    One click emails a copy to everyone on your recipient list. Or an Automation sends it every Monday at 7:00 without you.

What goes in, what comes out

It filters hard, then says why each item matters.

The reader in this example is a business unit manager at a supplier of hydraulic and fluid-control components (valves, actuators, solenoids, reservoirs) sold to aircraft builders and the aftermarket. Rotorcraft trade shows and airport retail sales don't make the cut. An airline keeping old jets flying does.

This week's inbox

  • Fleet & MRO Weekly Lessors extend narrowbody terms as deliveries slip Kept
  • Airport Retail News Duty-free spend per passenger hits a new high Dropped
  • OEM Production Tracker Supplier earnings: castings remain the constraint Kept
  • Rotorcraft Report Show preview: what to see on the floor this year Dropped
  • Defense Sustainment Monitor Depot workload shifts as retirements are pushed out Kept
  • Space Business Daily Launch cadence sets another quarterly record Dropped
  • …and the rest of the week's newsletters

One item in the brief

Commercial Aftermarket

European carrier extends A320ceo leases as neo deliveries slip

Each extended aircraft will go through another heavy check instead of retiring, roughly 28,000 added flight cycles for cycle-limited hydraulic components through 2028 (estimate). Expect actuator overhaul and solenoid valve demand from this operator's MRO providers in H1 2027.

Source: Fleet & MRO Weekly (example), Oct 8, 2026.

A sample issue

What lands in your team's inbox.

Default Newsletter · Week of October 5, 2026 Claude Opus 5.5

Illustrative sample. The events, figures and publications below are invented to show the format and depth of a real issue. They are not actual reporting.

Executive Summary

Narrowbody aftermarket demand is getting a lift from delivery delays: a major European carrier is keeping 14 A320ceo aircraft in service up to two years longer, adding cycle-driven spares demand through 2028. On the production side, landing-gear casting constraints put the early-2027 single-aisle rate step at risk, so shipset forecasts should hold rather than rise. Defense sustainment is the quiet positive this week, with an extended C-130H depot workload and a new F-35A order adding a long sustainment tail.

Commercial Aftermarket

European carrier extends A320ceo leases as neo deliveries slip

A large European low-cost carrier extended leases on 14 A320ceo aircraft by 18 to 24 months after its lessor confirmed three A320neo deliveries will slide into 2027. Each extended aircraft will go through another heavy-check interval instead of retiring. At roughly 2,000 cycles a year per aircraft, the 14 airframes add on the order of 28,000 cycles of exposure for cycle-limited hydraulic components through 2028 (estimate). Expect actuator overhaul and solenoid valve replacement demand from this operator's MRO providers in H1 2027. The account team should confirm whether we are a qualified source on the ceo shipset.

Source: Fleet & MRO Weekly (example), Oct 8, 2026.

Trans-Pacific widebody capacity returns to 2019 levels

Asia-Pacific carriers reported September trans-Pacific available seat kilometers back at 2019 levels for the first time, led by 787 and A350 rotations. Higher widebody utilization brings time-based overhaul intervals forward. For 787 fluid-control components the effect is gradual rather than immediate, because most of that fleet is still inside its first overhaul window (estimate).

Source: Airline Traffic Digest (example), Oct 9, 2026.

Commercial OEM

Castings shortage threatens next single-aisle rate step

A Tier 1 landing-gear supplier told investors that forging and casting lead times have stretched past 60 weeks and that it cannot yet support the single-aisle rate increase planned for early 2027. If that step slips one quarter, shipset demand for gear-mounted actuators and valves stays at the current rate instead of rising about 10%. Production planning should hold Q1 material orders, not cut them, until the airframer confirms its schedule.

Source: OEM Production Tracker (example), Oct 7, 2026.

Defense Aftermarket

Depot expands C-130H workload through FY2028

An Air Force logistics complex will take on additional C-130H programmed depot maintenance inductions through FY2028 as the H-model retirement timeline extends. Depot inductions pull hydraulic reservoirs and flight-control actuators for overhaul. An extended H-model fleet keeps this aftermarket line going at least three years beyond the prior plan (estimate).

Source: Defense Sustainment Monitor (example), Oct 6, 2026.

Defense OEM

European customer adds eight F-35A aircraft

A European air force confirmed eight additional F-35A aircraft, with deliveries in the 2029–2031 production lots. The effect on production is small against total program rates. Each lot still adds shipset content now and decades of sustainment demand later.

Source: Defense Budget Monitor (example), Oct 10, 2026.

Custom newsletters

Same pipeline. Your reader, your prompt.

The default brief is written for one role. Yours can be written for any role. Write your own agent prompt in the portal and the same sources, enrichment and analysis produce a newsletter for a different reader: a CFO tracking supplier risk, a sales team following key accounts, an engineer watching certification news.

Generate it with whichever model you choose, keep each week's issue on the calendar, and schedule it like any other workflow.

Example custom prompt

# Reader
The VP of Sales at a regional MRO shop.
Customers: 6 regional airlines flying
E175 and CRJ900 fleets.

# Job
Flag anything that changes how many
hours or cycles these fleets will fly
in the next 12 months, such as schedule
changes, retirements, new contracts or
pilot shortages.

# Format
One section per customer airline.
Lead with the change, then the likely
effect on our shop visits. Skip
anything about widebodies.

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