Monday morning Ghost membership growth report in Slack
Start every week with a real read on your publication. Net new free vs paid members, churn, top posts, and one recommendation, posted to Slack.
Integrations
Ghost
Slack Bot
Type
Categories
- Marketing
- Operations
Build me a weekly Ghost membership growth report that posts to Slack every Monday at 9am Eastern time so the team starts the week with a real read on the publication.
Trigger: a cron schedule, every Monday at 9:00 America/New_York.
This is an agent workflow. The agent should pull data from Ghost, compute the numbers, write a digest, and post it to Slack as a single message.
Data to pull from Ghost (Admin API):
1. Browse Members (Admin API) once, filtered to members created in the last 7 days. Page through all results. Bucket by status so we can split free vs paid signups.
2. Browse Members (Admin API) a second time, filtered to members whose status is canceled and whose status changed in the last 7 days. Page through all results. This is the churn count.
3. Browse Posts (Admin API) for posts published in the last 7 days. Include the published_at timestamp, title, slug, and URL.
4. Browse Newsletters (Admin API) to know which newsletters exist on the site so the agent can attribute signups when a member subscribed via a specific newsletter.
There is no Ghost analytics endpoint in our catalog, so derive every count from these listing operations. Use Ghost's NQL filter syntax on created_at and status to scope the queries to the last 7 days.
Numbers the digest must include:
- Net new free members this week (signups with a free status).
- Net new paid members this week (signups with a paid status).
- Total churn (members whose status flipped to canceled in the last 7 days).
- Weekly churn rate: churned members divided by the total active member count at the start of the week, expressed as a percentage with one decimal.
- Net growth: new members minus churned members.
Content analysis: line up the publish times of the week's posts and newsletters against when signups happened. Pick the top three posts by recency that coincided with a signup spike and call them out with title, URL, and a one-line note on why each one stood out.
End the digest with one specific recommendation for the upcoming week, grounded in what the data showed (for example: 'The Tuesday post on X drove 40 percent of paid signups, double down on that topic next week').
Delivery: use Slack Bot Send a Message to post a single message to the #growth channel. Keep formatting clean using Slack's mrkdwn: bold section headers, short bullet lists, and clickable links to post URLs. Keep numbers concrete and skip filler. No fluff, no padding.
If a given week has zero new members or zero churn, still post the digest and say so plainly. Do not skip the post.
What it does
- Every Monday at 9am Eastern, pulls the last 7 days of Ghost activity and posts a digest to your growth channel in Slack.
- Counts net new free and paid members, totals churn, and calculates a weekly churn rate so you see real growth, not vanity totals.
- Lines up the past week's posts and newsletters with signup spikes and calls out the top three that moved the needle.
- Ends with one concrete recommendation for the week ahead so the team starts Monday with a plan, not just numbers.
What you’ll need
- A Ghost site with admin access so you can create a custom integration and grab an Admin API key.
- A Slack workspace where you can install the General Input bot and a #growth channel (or any channel of your choice) for the weekly post.
- Roughly 3 months of Ghost membership activity for the numbers to feel meaningful. Brand-new sites will still get a report, just with smaller numbers.
How to customize it
- Change the day or time. Daily, Friday afternoon, or first of the month all work the same way.
- Swap the Slack channel, or send the digest as a direct message to a single owner instead of a team channel.
- Tweak what the digest emphasizes. Some teams want paid conversions front and center, others care most about churn or about which newsletter drove the most signups.
Use cases
- AI Reports
- Daily Digests
- Research & Monitoring