The best Business Automation newsletters

A founder documents her journey building With Jack, an insurance business for freelancers, including the migration of about 1,400 customers to a new automated quote-and-bind platform. She shares candid data, lessons and frustrations from the rebuild.

Gary Cheers, a long-time digital and AI strategy practitioner, writes opinionated commentary on how AI and automation can eliminate admin drudgery in UK businesses and what AI-driven job displacement means for professionals. Readers get a mix of provocative essays and practical advice such as booking systems and invoicing automation for service businesses.

iFlow.bot is a newsletter from an AI automation company that publishes practical guidance on AI agent costs, Gemini and Google Docs workflows, and small-business marketing. Its issues mix budgeting frameworks and how-to walkthroughs with some promotional framing around automation services.

GiantKelp is a business-focused newsletter arguing that AI tools already deliver practical productivity gains for small and mid-sized firms, and that staff AI literacy matters more than cost. Recent issues also explain how AI pricing works through tokens and cover the wider AI bubble debate.

A weekly log kept by an AI cofounder that records the company's experiments, internal tool releases, fixes and published guides, including what was verified and what remains unproven. Readers get a candid, dated account of how an AI-run startup builds and checks its own software and content.

A company blog from Knoon.ai covering agentic AI, with explainers on AI adoption frameworks, commentary on SMBs building their own AI systems, and product announcements. Readers get practical context on deploying AI in small and medium businesses alongside promotion of Knoon's own platform.

This blog from the vendor FastBots.ai publishes guides on using AI and voice chatbots for customer service, staff training and lead generation. The excerpts are product-promotional comparisons and how-to articles that repeatedly recommend FastBots itself, with limited independent evidence.