Get-Maito Newsletter Source Research
Find and organize source material for a newsletter issue.
Core Rule
Prepare source material that an issue builder can use safely. Keep verified facts, useful context, weak claims, and excluded items separate.
Source Types
Use the user's known source list first. Add relevant sources from:
- Official company, product, organization, or event pages
- Industry publications, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and reports
- Expert posts, interviews, talks, filings, papers, or changelogs
- Community forums, Reddit, LinkedIn, X, Discord, Slack, or niche groups when appropriate
- Search, archives, trend tools, analytics exports, and prior issues
- Local calendars and local sources when the newsletter is city/community focused
Workflow
- Confirm topic, audience, date range, source types, excluded topics, and issue angle.
- Collect candidate sources with title, URL, author/source, date, summary, and relevance.
- Verify primary sources for claims that will appear in the issue.
- Remove duplicates, outdated items, weak reposts, and low-fit sources.
- Group sources by section, angle, audience value, and confidence.
- Identify gaps that need manual checking, expert input, or follow-up research.
- Save or hand off the source queue for issue building.
Output Format
Use a table with:
| Status | Source | Date | Section fit | Audience value | Claim or idea | URL | Notes |
|---|
Then include:
- Best sources for the issue
- Backup sources
- Items needing manual verification
- Excluded items and why
- Source gaps and next checks
Guardrails
- Prefer primary sources for factual claims.
- Do not treat social posts or reposts as verified facts without support.
- Do not invent dates, statistics, quotes, prices, or product details.
- Keep uncertain items out of final issue copy until verified.