Generate Newsletter Insurance

Purpose

Generates a branded newsletter for Anchor Point Insurance Co. (brand=LIFEINSUR). This is a specialization of the generate-newsletter skill, pre-configured for the insurance vertical — it fetches life insurance and financial planning news, uses the Anchor Point brand palette (warm charcoal #44403E, terracotta #AD7C59, warm beige #FCF9F6), and omits property listings (which are CRE-11TRUST only).

Inputs

• date (optional): Edition date as YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today.
• dry-run (optional): Generate content but do NOT push to Strapi. Useful for previewing.
• news-query (optional): Override the default NewsAPI query. Default: LIFEINSUR_NEWSAPI_QUERY env var or "life insurance financial planning south florida".

Steps

1. Call lib/newsletter/generate-insurance.ts::generateInsuranceNewsletter(options?) to orchestrate
2. Load LIFEINSUR brand config — palette, sender email (from brand-config in Strapi or hardcoded defaults), display name "Anchor Point Insurance Co."
3. Fetch news — fetchNews(query) hits NewsAPI for 5 latest articles matching insurance/financial planning topics
4. Generate AI content — generateAiContent(null, news) sends news to Groq (no properties for LIFEINSUR). Returns market overview and news summaries.
5. Build HTML — buildHtml() assembles responsive email-safe HTML with Anchor Point brand colors and insurance-specific sections
6. Build Strapi payload — buildStrapiPayload() with brand=LIFEINSUR, slug includes timestamp for uniqueness
7. Push to Strapi — strapiPost('/api/newsletters', data) creates a draft newsletter (skipped in dry-run mode)
8. Log execution via lib/board/index.ts::logActivity()

Output

Brand: LIFEINSUR (Anchor Point Insurance Co.)
News articles fetched: 5
AI content generated: market_overview (342 words), 5 news summaries
HTML length: 12,847 chars
Strapi draft created: documentId=abc123-def456

CLI Usage

# Generate insurance newsletter for today
optimal generate-newsletter-insurance

# Specific date
optimal generate-newsletter-insurance --date 2026-03-01

# Preview without pushing to Strapi
optimal generate-newsletter-insurance --dry-run

# Custom news query
optimal generate-newsletter-insurance --news-query "florida insurance market rates"

Environment

Requires: GROQ_API_KEY, NEWSAPI_KEY, STRAPI_URL, STRAPI_API_TOKEN Optional: GROQ_MODEL (default: llama-3.3-70b-versatile), LIFEINSUR_NEWSAPI_QUERY

Gotchas

• No properties: Unlike CRE-11TRUST, LIFEINSUR newsletters do not include property listings. The --excel parameter is not available.
• Slug uniqueness: Slugs include a timestamp (YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS) to avoid conflicts on same-day reruns.
• Brand palette: Primary #44403E (warm charcoal), Accent #AD7C59 (terracotta), BG #FCF9F6 (warm beige).
• Preview site: Published newsletters render at https://newsletter.op-hub.com/lifeinsur

Status

Implementation status: Not yet implemented. Spec only. Lib function lib/newsletter/generate-insurance.ts to be ported from generate-newsletter-lifeinsur.py in the newsletter-automation repo.