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A managing partner's LinkedIn now runs itself.

Six hours a week of content creation became a five-minute weekly review. Twenty posts a month publish on schedule, in the partner's voice, on topics her audience actually cares about. The partner kept her billable hours.

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MP
M. Patel
Managing Partner · M&A practice
just now·🌐
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The SEC just dropped its disclosure-rule update, and most M&A teams are reading the wrong half of it.

Here's the part that actually changes deal mechanics for funds under $500M…

Three takeaways for partners working diligence this quarter:

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1 partner·20 posts a month·5 minutes a week to keep it running

20

Posts / month

5 min

Weekly review

6 hrs

Hours back / week

94%

Voice match

01 / What was happening

Six hours a week. Or zero posts a month.

The managing partner of a mid-size law firm needed a LinkedIn presence. Thought leadership, regulatory commentary, the kind of posts that build credibility one quarter at a time.

Producing that content took six hours a week. Either she wrote it herself and lost the hours, or her team wrote it and the voice came out flat. The cadence collapsed: three posts in a week, then nothing for a month.

The agency managing her marketing needed a system that worked for this partner and could scale to every executive on their roster.

Posting cadence · last 6 monthsAvg ~1.5/wk · gaps of 30+ days
1 bar=posts that week·flat columns are silent weeks
02 / What we built · The engine
01/05·n8n · Feeds
Inbox · this morning14 new
law.comSEC adopts climate-disclosure final rule8m
wsj.com / proMid-cap M&A volume up 14% in Q112m
bloomberg / lawDOJ updates merger-review standards1h
reuters.comFund formation: privacy-rule wrinkle2h
lexology.com10b5-1 plan amendments — what changed3h
The engine · stage 01

Source monitoring

Industry publications, regulatory feeds, court rulings, peer-firm posts. The system reads what the partner reads — every morning, before the partner has finished coffee.

02/05·Claude · Score
Relevance score · M&A partner beat
SEC climate-disclosure rule9
DOJ merger-review standards9
10b5-1 plan amendments8
Generic legal-tech launch2
Fund formation privacy wrinkle7
Conference speaker lineup1
4 candidates → drafting queue
The engine · stage 02

Relevance scoring

Each item gets a score against the partner's beat. SEC ruling on disclosure — 9. Generic legal-tech announcement — 2. The 9s become draft candidates. The 2s never reach the partner.

03/05·Claude · Voice
Draft · in voice·M. Patel · M&A

hook The SEC just dropped its disclosure rule, and most M&A teams are reading the wrong half of it.

contrarian Most teams will spend Q2 on disclosure templates. The bigger shift is in deal mechanics for funds under $500M.

listicle Three things to flag in diligence this quarter: 1. revised timing windows, 2. expanded MNPI scope, 3. signing-day liquidity reps.

0 / 184 wordsvoice match · 94%
The engine · stage 03

Voice-calibrated draft

Using the partner's prior posts as reference, the system drafts a take. Direct sentences. The partner's signature contrarian angle. The specific examples she'd reach for.

04/05·Airtable · Approve
This week · partner queue5 min total
SEC disclosure rule — wrong halfReviewApproved
Why partners undervalue paralegalsApproved
Texas court ruling, brief commentaryApproved
M&A diligence trend (Q2)Draft
The engine · stage 04

Five-minute review

Drafts land in Airtable. The partner scans on her phone over coffee. Edit one sentence, approve, schedule. Five minutes for the week's queue.

05/05·LinkedIn API · Live
MP
M. Patel · Managing Partner
just now · 🌐
Live

The SEC just dropped its disclosure rule, and most M&A teams are reading the wrong half of it…

👍128💬14🔁9+ engagement → next batch
Twice a week · 20 posts/mo · the partner kept her billable hours
The engine · stage 05

Schedule + publish

Approved posts publish on schedule, twice a week. Live on LinkedIn within seconds. Engagement reactions come back into the dashboard so the next batch knows what worked.

Five stages. One post in voice.

n8n underneath, Claude in the middle, Airtable on the surface, LinkedIn at the end. The next five panels are the stages, in order. Scroll to watch each one.

03 / How voice was solved
03 / 04·Voice calibration · interactive·Toggle between drafts to see what the system tunes
Same news event · two drafts
Draft A · model-default prompt

The SEC has issued an important update to its disclosure rules. This update will impact M&A teams across various sectors.

Companies should review the new requirements carefully and update their compliance procedures. It is essential to stay informed about regulatory changes.

Best practices include consulting with legal counsel, training your team on the new rules, and updating your disclosure documents accordingly.

We recommend a thorough review process to ensure compliance.

What changed

A standard prompt produces correct, hedged, interchangeable copy. The kind of post that scrolls past a feed without landing.

Engagement · 3 reactions

Same news. Two drafts. Toggle to see.

LinkedIn is full of AI content that reads like AI content. Hedged, safe, interchangeable. For this system to work, every post had to sound like the partner wrote it.

The widget below is the same news event drafted two ways. Toggle between Generic AI and In Voice to see what specifically the system calibrates for. Same model. Different research, different prompt, different result.

04 / What changed
Editorial queue · this week5-min review · scheduled by the system
MonSEC disclosure rule, the wrong halfApproved
TueWhy partners undervalue paralegalsApproved
ThuTexas court ruling, brief commentaryScheduled
FriM&A diligence trend (Q2)Scheduled
MonHire-and-train economicsDraft
Wed10b5-1 plan amendments — what changedDraft
Cadence
6-month window~5/wk steady

Five-minute review. Twenty posts. Same partner.

Drafts land in Airtable. The partner scans on her phone over coffee. Edits one sentence, approves the rest, schedules the week. Five minutes total.

The cadence below is the same partner’s posting rhythm before and after the system shipped. Use the toggle to compare.

05 / The lesson

Voice was the hard part.

The build was easy. APIs, Airtable, n8n. The model wasn't the constraint either. The constraint was: does this post sound like the partner, or does it sound like an AI pretending to be the partner.

Most automated thought leadership reads as automated. Hedged, generic, allergic to a real opinion. We solved that with a calibration layer: prior posts as voice reference, named beats for hooks and stance, banned phrases that signal AI authorship.

The technical build doesn’t need to be complicated. It needs to not fail. The value lives in the layer that makes the output indistinguishable from human work.