I'm building one in Orange County right now. AI finds the stories, writes the drafts, and handles the busywork. I'm turning the entire playbook into a course, and I'm documenting the build as it happens.
GET FIRST ACCESS → Free. Build-in-public updates + founding-member pricing at launch.The local paper is dying or dead. The Facebook groups are chaos. And nobody can tell you what's actually worth doing this weekend without making you scroll through forty posts about a lost cat.
Meanwhile, every dentist, restaurant, gym, and home-service business in town has an ad budget and nowhere good to spend it. They don't need a billboard on the 405. They need the 5,000 people who live within ten miles of their front door.
A local newsletter sits right in the middle of that. Readers get five minutes that make them the plugged-in friend. Local businesses get the one inbox in town people actually open. That's a real business, and operators in cities smaller than yours are running it past $100K a year.
The catch has always been the labor. Sourcing events, writing every issue, chasing ad deals. Twenty hours a week, minimum. That catch is gone.
I run The OC Buzz, a local newsletter for Orange County, California. AI agents pull the events from dozens of sources, write the drafts in my voice, and check their own work. My job is quality control and saying yes to advertisers. The course shows you exactly how it's built, screen by screen, because I built it screen by screen.
Market size, naming, and the SEO play that makes your newsletter the answer when anyone Googles your town.
Domain, Beehiiv, and the deliverability setup most newsletters never do. This is why mine lands in Primary, not Promotions.
The team of agents that sources, writes, and reviews every issue. Built on Claude. No code required, no engineering degree.
A pipeline that reads your whole city every day, so you never stare at a blank page wondering what to write.
The exact ad playbook for growing the list without lighting money on fire. Targets, budgets, and the settings that matter.
Pricing that scales with your list, an inbound funnel that qualifies advertisers for you, and AI that drafts the ad creative so businesses just say yes.
Straight with you: this compounds. It does not pop. The operators making real money sent every week for a year first. The difference now is that AI carries the twenty hours a week that used to make people quit.
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