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Teaching an AI agent what our newsletters said: a Mailchimp connector for cognee

DEV Community: python·Anand Prakash Srivastava·about 4 hours ago
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Every company that sends newsletters has the same small problem. Someone asks "when did we tell customers the new pricing starts?" and the answer is sitting in a campaign from two months ago. Nobody remembers which one. You end up scrolling through Mailchimp's campaign list and opening emails one by one.

For Mergetober I wrote a Mailchimp connector for cognee , an open source memory layer for AI agents. It pulls your campaigns (and, if you want, the notes you keep on contacts) into cognee, so an agent can answer questions about what you actually sent. It is PR #428 in cognee-community, for issue #4784 .

Most of the work turned out not to be "call the API". It was getting clean text out of an email, and working out when a campaign has changed when Mailchimp does not tell you.

How I use it

I set up a small product launch across three tools to try this properly: the discussion in Twist, the tasks in Basecamp, and the customer announcement in Mailchimp.…

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