What you'll need
Four or five accounts. APIs across the board.
n8n
Free self-hosted, or n8n Cloud starting $20/mo
OpenAI API key
Pay-as-you-go, ~$0.001 per digest
CRM + PM + Calendar + Payments
Whatever you use today; all four need API access
Gmail or Outlook
For the morning email delivery
The math
What this is worth, conservatively
Time spent each morning checking 4-6 dashboards
20-40 minutes
Time with this workflow
~3 minutes reading the brief
Annualized hours recovered (5 days/wk)
~75-150 hours
Plus: dropped balls caught early (stalled deals, missed renewals)
$5K-30K/year per ball, varies wildly
Cost to run this template forever
~$4/year
Time savings based on Atlassian and Asana state-of-work surveys. Dropped-ball cost is illustrative; depends on deal size and renewal value.