Every Newsletter — Backfill Discovery
Summary
- Total messages found: 109
- Already filed: 1 ("How We Run a 25-person Company on Four AI Agents" — filed 2026-04-09)
- Unprocessed: 108
- Date range: Jan 11, 2026 — Apr 10, 2026
- Batches created: 6 (5 x 20 + 1 x 8)
Content Mix
The 109 messages break down into roughly three categories:
- Editorial articles (~60%): Long-form essays on AI strategy, coding with AI, management, product design
- Promotional/event emails (~25%): Camp registrations, demo days, product launches, discount codes
- Onboarding sequence (~10%): 10-part (1/9 through 10/9) welcome drip sequence
Promotional and onboarding emails are lower-value for vault filing — the processing tasks should triage these out during backfill.
Author Observations
Every is a multi-author publication. The From field is always generic ("Every hello@every.to"), so author identification requires reading each message body. Authors confirmed from sampled messages:
| Author | Role | Publications / Columns |
|---|---|---|
| Dan Shipper | CEO, cofounder | "Chain of Thought", "On Every" — company strategy, AI ops, product announcements |
| Katie Parrott | Staff writer, AI editorial lead | "Working Overtime" — AI writing process, editorial craft |
| Eleanor Warnock | Writer/journalist | Standalone articles — careers, knowledge work |
| Tina He | External writer (Pace Capital) | Guest articles — AI business strategy, boring businesses |
| Alex Duffy | External writer | Guest articles — AI data markets, training data |
| Evan Armstrong | Writer (known Every contributor) | Articles on AI business models (not yet confirmed in sample but historically present) |
| Every team | Collective | Vibe Check reviews, model comparisons, event announcements |
Key gotcha: Author bylines are embedded in HTML <p class="byline">by <a>Author Name</a></p> or in plain-text footers. The processing skill will need to parse this from each message body — cannot rely on email headers alone.
Additional staff mentioned across messages
- Kieran Klaassen (Cora GM)
- Naveen Naidu (Monologue GM)
- Andrey Galko (Lead engineer)
- Lucas Crespo (Creative director)
- Katie Parrott (also mentioned in Vibe Checks as a rater)
Vault files already present
06-reference/2026-04-09-every-four-ai-agents.md— "How We Run a 25-Person Company on Four AI Agents"06-reference/2026-04-03-analytics-engineering-everywhere.md— unrelated (different source, name collision on "every")
Processing notes
- Messages were sent via two different mail platforms: Mailgun (
email.mg.every.to) for HTML articles and ConvertKit (convertkit-mail2.com) for plain-text promotional emails - Many articles are paywalled — email contains the free preview only
- Notion backfill tasks created with message IDs for efficient lookup during processing