Your weekly Substack post, outlined and opened — in your voice.
Feed it your theme, your audience, and 2-3 links or notes. Get back a structured outline plus a first paragraph that actually sounds like you, not a press release.
$3.99
Works in Claude + ChatGPT
01Turns a theme + 2-3 source links or notes into a complete post outline with section headers and key points filled in
02Writes the opening paragraph in your voice — not a generic hook, one calibrated to your sample or voice description
03Recommends the right post format (essay, listicle, hot take, breakdown, etc.) before building the structure so you're not just copying a template
04Reads your source URLs directly — paste a DOE press release or a Heatmap piece and it pulls the relevant details so you don't have to summarize
05Keeps you on cadence: 30 minutes of staring at a blank doc becomes a 5-minute setup, then editing an actual draft
What it does
Weekly posts are where paid newsletters live or die. The gap between "I have a good idea this week" and "I have a publishable post" is usually 3-4 hours of outlining, reorganizing, and rewriting your own lede until it doesn't sound like a LinkedIn update. This skill closes that gap.
Give it your topic, your target reader, and 2-3 sources — URLs, pasted notes, a stat you saw, a conversation you had. It reads the sources, picks the post format that fits your material (using the bundled Substack Post Formats guide covering six structures), builds a section-by-section outline, then writes an opening paragraph matched to your voice. The voice matching isn't vibes — it uses a reference guide that analyzes sentence rhythm, humor, hedging, authority, and register from a sample or description you provide.
This is for writers who already know what they want to say and need the scaffolding built fast — not for people who want AI to write generic content about topics they don't care about. If you have a point of view and some sources, this gets you from blank page to editable draft in one session.
Frequently asked
Does it write the whole post or just the outline and opener?
Outline plus the opening paragraph — that's the intentional scope. The outline gives you every section with the key points mapped out. The opener gives you a drafted lede in your voice. You write the body sections, which is where your actual expertise lives. If you want a full draft, you can ask it to continue section by section, but the core output is the scaffold + hook.
Will it actually sound like me, or will it sound like every other AI newsletter?
It uses a bundled voice-matching guide that works from a real sample — paste a paragraph or two from a previous post (or describe your voice in concrete terms: 'nerdy but dark humor about corporate stuff') and it calibrates rhythm, hedging, register, and tone before it writes the opener. It's not foolproof, but it's meaningfully better than a generic hook. You'll still edit it — but you'll be editing something in your ballpark, not rewriting from scratch.
Can I just write a good prompt myself instead of buying this?
You can, and plenty of people try. What you're paying for is the bundled format library (six Substack post structures with when-to-use guidance), the voice-matching logic, and a setup that already knows the right questions to ask so you don't spend 20 minutes prompt-engineering before you can start writing. If you've already built that system yourself, you probably don't need this. If you're reinventing it every Monday, this saves you that tax.
Does it work if my sources are just rough notes and not real URLs?
Yes. Sources can be URLs it reads directly, pasted text, bullet notes, or even 'I had a conversation with my financial planner friend who said X.' It's flexible — the richer your input, the sharper the outline, but rough notes are a valid starting point.
Will it work for any newsletter topic, or is it tuned for specific niches?
Any topic where you have a genuine angle and some source material: personal finance, climate tech, indie bookstores, workplace culture, whatever you cover. It does not work well if you don't have a point of view yet — it can't invent the angle for you, only structure one you already have.
Install
After purchase you'll get a license key. Then:
$ npx skilltree-network login # paste your license key