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anna
An auto-publishing systems-thinking blog with an AI-driven research workflow.
Anna treats writing as a product system: research, drafting, publishing, and iteration stitched together through agentic workflow design.
Writing and research workflows are easy to keep artisanal and hard to sustain. Anna turns publishing into an inspectable workflow that agents can help run.
- The README defines a weekly Thursday workflow: research, synthesis, article, and workshop material generation.
- The app uses Next.js, file-based content storage, Claude API workflow code, and Vercel Cron rather than a database-heavy publishing stack.
- Recent local history shows the project absorbed agent-runner work: Council Product advisor, Builder agent, simple BUILD tasks into PRs, and a rename from Builder to Developer.
- It connects the Ideas surface with the build-in-public toolchain by treating publishing as a repeatable product workflow.
- Shows AI workflow thinking applied to content operations.
- Makes research, synthesis, writing, and workshop production part of one inspectable system.
- Connects writing, research, and productisation.
- Supports the portfolio argument that point of view and tooling reinforce each other.
Document the editorial workflow enough for readers to understand the system behind the output.