Every month the investor update eats a morning, and almost none of that is the writing. Writing the thing is the short part. The long part is gathering: last month's metrics from one doc, the founder check-in notes sitting in Granola, the Gmail threads where a customer said something worth quoting.
I finally pointed an agent on my laptop at the gathering instead of the writing. Funny thing is I barely used the draft it produced, rewrote most of it anyway. What actually changed the month was not spending the morning as the integration layer between Granola, Gmail, and a metrics doc that never talk to each other.
the prose was never the bottleneck. once a month I'd turn into the thing that reconciles a stack of tabs full of stuff I already had. the setup that finally fixed it writes a pretty average draft and does a genuinely great gather. i'd have bet on the exact opposite. written with ai
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