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Overview

Product-update emails are chronically late because someone has to remember what shipped, translate commit-speak into customer language, and then fight the email tool. This automation does all three: every week it reads merged PRs across your product repositories, writes the newsletter, and creates a draft in Resend through a custom MCP server, ready for review. It’s how we actually generate the ones we send every Friday.
  • Trigger: Schedule
  • Setup time: About 30 minutes
  • Requires: Member access, an admin-configured custom Resend MCP server
  • Serves: PMs, Founders, Marketing
  • Cooked By: Bruno Bergher from Roomote

Ingredients

  • A custom automation
  • An environment covering the product repositories
  • The Resend MCP server configured under Settings > Integrations, with a Resend API key
  • A report destination such as #product-updates, so the draft lands in a replyable thread
Members can create and manage their own custom automations once the environment and integration are configured. Admins manage integration setup, deployment settings (including the shared scheduling timezone), and all custom automations, including those without a creator.

Steps

  1. Confirm an admin has added the Resend MCP server and its tools are available in the environment.
  2. Create a custom automation named Product Updates Newsletter. Choose Custom schedule, enter Mondays at 9am, and select the environment.
  3. Paste the prompt below.
  4. Set the report destination to #product-updates.
  5. Use Run now to generate the first draft, then calibrate its tone by replying in the thread.

Automation prompt

Variations

  • Without Resend, remove step 4 and post ready-to-paste Markdown for any email tool.
  • Run monthly with first Monday of the month at 9am.
  • Use separate automations for customer notes and a technical internal changelog.
This recipe showcases custom MCP servers, natural-language scheduling, and replyable automation threads. Review the draft before sending it; the automation is deliberately instructed to create a draft, not send a broadcast. Pairs well with: scheduled housekeeping