Adoption Feed
A weekly read on how the NHS and the wider public sector are actually putting AI to work. Named trusts and named services, with what they are using and how it is going. Subscribe before the first issue.
- Status
- Building
- Stack
- Next.js, Resend, Claude
- Type
- Publication
The itch
Keeping up with AI adoption in the day job means wading through an enormous amount of noise to find the handful of things that matter: a trust that has actually rolled something out, a regulator that has changed its position, a platform feature that alters what's safe to build. I wanted to cut the curation down so I could spend more time reading the things that matter, rather than getting distracted by things that are interesting but not directly relevant.
What I wanted to read didn't exist. The newsletters I could find were either general AI news or vendor marketing. Nobody was writing the short, named, specific weekly read for people who sit in a transformation or digital team and need to know what their peers did last week.
How I built it
It's like a one-page newspaper, or at least that's how I see it. Each issue has a masthead, an issue number and a fixed shape: the big story, organisations like mine, further afield, a tooling watch, useful voices in the space, and the links that didn't make a section but are still worth a look. Each issue is a page of its own with an archive behind it, and the email is the same edition in your inbox.
Underneath, an automated sweep runs every morning across the RSS feeds, government notices, Microsoft roadmap entries and sector press that I was reading by hand, so the week's candidates are already waiting rather than hunted for. The rule for what qualifies is written down in one place and applied to everything.
Considerations
At first I thought the struggle would be what to include. It isn't. It's what to cut. I wanted news that showed actual progress, with takeaways a programme lead could build on.
The other decision was cadence. A daily email is easy to generate and nobody reads it. Weekly, on a fixed morning, with a reading time you can plan around, is the format I'd actually open.
How it landed
It's set up and it works. I'm currently testing it on myself to refine what belongs in an issue: the things I actually take the time to read. The first edition will drop shortly. Feel free to subscribe if it sounds like it would be useful to you.
Personal takeaways
Reading with a view to publishing is building a good habit. It forces me to sift through the noise each week and get to the two-sentence heart of every article, rather than bookmarking things I will never come back to.