Monthly Digest — SaaS

A clean, single-column product digest for SaaS teams — issue header, three numbered story rows with inline links, and a themed footer.

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The prompt

Paste the brief below into ChatGPT or Claude with Temway's MCP enabled — the agent builds the email step by step. Or adapt it for your own brand and copy.

  • An email is a top-to-bottom stack of blocks — the recipe follows that order.
  • A [layout] step becomes a single image (great for heroes); everything else stays live text and links.
  • Theme the footer to match — the recipe's last step does exactly that.

Want this exact email? Tell your agent to clone the Temway share lEoNlFwpULO7-oXlh0Wmn, then rebrand it. For the full model, point it at get_conceptemail-structure, layouts-vs-emails, design-recipes.

A calm end-of-month product digest that a SaaS user finishes in under a minute. A gradient hero sets the issue, then three numbered story rows stack as native heading-and-link pairs, closing with a warm sign-off — no hype, just what shipped and the one story worth a click.

Snapshot

  • Goal: recap the month’s product updates for active users and trials, and drive one click to the story that matters to each reader.
  • Audience & tone: product builders and team leads who already use the product. Calm, confident, skim-friendly — no hype, no exclamation marks.
  • Palette: page #ffffff · container #ffffff · text #0f172a / #475569 (muted) · accent indigo #4f46e5 (hero gradient #4f46e5#818cf8)
  • Font: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
  • Artwork: one gradient-hero layout hero (a single rasterized image). Everything below it is native, selectable, clickable.

Build recipe

Each step is one block in the flat stack, top to bottom. [native] = a real email block. [layout] = a free-form layout embedded as a single image.

  1. [native] Wordmark — logo (or text). “Northwind”, indigo #4f46e5, fontWeight: 700, left.
  2. [layout] Gradient hero — apply the gradient-hero layout template; recolor its band to the indigo gradient (#4f46e5#818cf8). Overlay copy: eyebrow “ISSUE 09 — SEPTEMBER 2026”, heading “Your September product roundup”, subline one sentence framing the month. Text-only artwork — the working links live in the native rows below.
  3. [native] Intro — text. One calm sentence setting up the recap, fontSize: 15, color #475569, left.
  4. [native] Story 1 heading — text. “1. Smart Insights is live”, fontSize: 17, fontWeight: 700, color #0f172a, left.
  5. [native] Story 1 body — text. Two-sentence summary, fontSize: 14, color #475569, left, with an inline indigo #4f46e5 “Read more →” link.
  6. [native] Divider — hairline #e2e8f0, generous vertical padding. This replaces the “card” separation — the flat model stacks and divides, it does not box.
  7. [native] Story 2 heading — text. “2. [what shipped]”, fontSize: 17, fontWeight: 700, color #0f172a, left.
  8. [native] Story 2 body — text. fontSize: 14, color #475569, left, inline indigo “Read more →” link.
  9. [native] Divider — hairline #e2e8f0, generous vertical padding.
  10. [native] Story 3 heading — text. “3. [what shipped]”, fontSize: 17, fontWeight: 700, color #0f172a, left.
  11. [native] Story 3 body — text. fontSize: 14, color #475569, left, inline indigo “Read more →” link.
  12. [native] Sign-off — text. “Thanks for reading — see you next month.”, fontSize: 14, color #475569, left.
  13. [native] Footer — social + address. Recolor both: social.color = #4f46e5, address.color = #94a3b8, address.fontFamily = Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif. Without this they fall back to a generic brand-blue that clashes with the indigo accent.

Make it yours

  1. Swap the three story headings and summaries for what you actually shipped — keep it to two sentences each.
  2. Update the hero eyebrow to the current issue number and month.
  3. Recolor the indigo gradient and accent to your brand; every inline link picks up the same accent against the gray body.
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