Daily

Email a daily report to a list through SendGrid

A summary of the numbers or news you track goes out from your own domain at the same time each day.

Runs: Daily
Apps: SendGrid
AI: Optional
Access: Mail Send

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 6pm, fetch the closing prices of VTI, VXUS and BND, build a short summary, and send it via SendGrid to me@example.com and partner@example.com.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Plenty of people read the same few sources every morning: investment news, industry headlines, new regulations, competitor announcements. Doing it by hand is time-consuming, and forwarding the best items to colleagues or clients is something that gets dropped on a busy week. A newsletter service is overkill for a list of twelve people, and a plain email from a personal account lands in spam once the group grows beyond a handful of recipients.

Each day the automation gathers items from public sources you name, drops any that were sent in a previous digest, formats the new ones as a clean HTML email, and sends it through your SendGrid account to your list. AI is optional, for example to write one-line summaries. It suits analysts, advisors and community managers who want a regular briefing to go out on time without extra work.

What you get out of it

A regular briefing that actually goes out
The digest arrives at the same time every day without anyone assembling it. Readers learn to rely on it, which is the whole value of a briefing, and your reputation for being informed grows.
No repeated stories
Remembering which items were already sent means readers see only new material. A digest that repeats yesterday's headline gets ignored within a week, so skipping seen items protects its usefulness.
Proper deliverability for group mail
Sending through SendGrid with an authenticated domain means mail reaches inboxes, including for recipients at companies with strict filters. Personal accounts sending to dozens of people are often throttled or flagged.
Your own format and sources
You decide which sites feed the digest and how it looks. A clean HTML layout with headlines and links is easier to scan than a forwarded chain, so busy readers act on it.
Readers can be added without effort
Growing from twelve to two hundred recipients does not change the process. Adding someone to the list is enough, and the digest keeps arriving with the same reliability. Growing from twelve readers to two hundred means adding addresses, not rebuilding anything.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every day, ClickRuntime fetches the latest items you track, such as the top stories from a news site.
It skips anything it has already sent, so each digest only holds new items.
It builds a tidy email listing each item.
The email is sent through SendGrid from your own domain, such as "Northwind Digest", to your list.

Before it runs live

Connect SendGrid

What you get

RunsDaily

Email a daily report to a list through SendGridtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Today's top 10 storiesFrom Northwind Digest <digest@northwind.example> • Postgres 18 released (812 points)

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other SendGrid steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

scheduled_digest_email_sent_through_sendgrid.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state

TO, FROM = "team@northwind.example", "digest@northwind.example"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    ids = http.get("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json").json()[:30]
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    stories = [http.get(f"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{i}.json").json() for i in ids if i not in seen][:10]
    if not stories:
        return {"sent": False}
    items = "".join(f"<li><a href='{s.get('url', '')}'>{s['title']}</a> ({s.get('score', 0)} points)</li>" for s in stories)
    http.post("https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('SENDGRID_API_KEY')}"},
              json={"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": TO}]}], "from": {"email": FROM, "name": "Northwind Digest"},
                    "subject": f"Today's top {len(stories)} stories", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "value": f"<ul>{items}</ul>"}]}).raise_for_status()
    state.set("seen", list(seen | {s["id"] for s in stories})[-1000:])
    return {"sent": True, "stories": len(stories)}

FAQ

Common questions

What public sources can the digest draw from?

Anything with an open feed or public page works, such as RSS feeds, government notices or company press pages, but not content behind a login. Whatever the sources are, each item is remembered once sent, so tomorrow's digest only holds stories that are actually new.

Does it need SendGrid to be set up with my domain?

Sending through SendGrid works best once your domain is authenticated with SPF and DKIM records, which SendGrid walks you through. Without that, messages may still send but are more likely to be filtered as spam.

Can the digest include AI summaries of each item?

Yes. ClickRuntime's built-in AI can write a sentence or two for each item, so readers can decide quickly what to open. This step is optional, and the digest works as a list of headlines and links without it.

What permissions does it need?

Mail Send. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No, but you can ask for an AI step (for example a summary). It then uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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