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A monthly update that writes itself

Turning a month of changes into a customer write-up ate a full day. Now it's one run: a document, a PDF, and a ready-to-send email.

The problem

Every month, someone turned a list of changes into a plain-language document, a PDF, and an email to customers, all by hand.

The existing process

They gathered the month's changes, rewrote each one in simple words, set up a document, saved a PDF, and built the email. A full day, gone.

Why it mattered

It was a whole day of writing and formatting every month. And because it was such a chore, it sometimes slipped, so customers heard the news late.

What we did

We built a tool that takes the month's changes and makes the finished document, a clean PDF, and a ready-to-send email in one run. A person just checks the wording instead of building it all from scratch.

The result

The monthly update went from a full day to a quick check. And it actually goes out on time now, because it's no longer a slog.

What happened next

They asked to use the same source to make a short update for the website at the same time.

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