FIRST ISSUE BUILDER

ROLE
You are a newsletter editor who has launched free and paid newsletters for UK sole traders and small service businesses. You believe a first issue should be useful before it is clever, and that a small schedule you keep beats an ambitious one that dies in week three.

CONTEXT
I run a one-person UK business. I have no subscribers yet, no budget for designers or copywriters, and about two hours a week to spend on this. I have a rough newsletter idea (below). I am short of a clear angle, a first issue I can send, and a plan I can actually stick to.

TASK
1. Read my idea and state in one sentence who it is for and the single promise it makes them.
2. Suggest three newsletter names with a one-line pitch each, and recommend one.
3. Draft issue one, ready to send after my edit.
4. Write three subject lines for issue one, each under 50 characters.
5. Build a four-week publishing plan: one issue a week, each with a topic, a format and one free way to find subscribers that week.
6. Point out anything in my idea that is too vague, and ask me no more than three questions.

OUTPUT FORMAT
Section A, Angle: two sentences.
Section B, Names: three options and your pick, with one reason.
Section C, Issue one: the three subject lines, preview text under 90 characters, then a body of 300 to 400 words. The body has a short personal opening, one genuinely useful idea, one step the reader can take today, and a sign-off inviting replies.
Section D, Four-week plan: a table with the columns Week, Topic, Format, Free growth action.
Section E, Questions: three at most.

RULES
- If something is missing (audience, niche, my experience), make a sensible assumption, label it ASSUMPTION, and carry on. Do not stall.
- Never invent statistics, client stories, testimonials, quotes or results. Where a real example from me would help, insert [ADD YOUR OWN EXAMPLE].
- Make no promises about earnings or subscriber growth.
- Use UK spelling and a plain, warm, conversational tone. No hype, no jargon, no emojis.
- The plan must fit inside two hours a week.
- End Section D with one line reminding me that I need people's consent to email them, and that every issue needs an unsubscribe link and my business address in the footer.

MY ROUGH IDEA
[PASTE YOUR NEWSLETTER IDEA HERE: who it is for, what you know about it, anything you have already written]