New: send-time autopilot now picks the best hour per subscriber — read the note

Ship updates people read

Turn your changelog into a digest customers actually open.

Ferrywake collects what your team shipped, drafts a plain-language weekly digest, and sends it at the hour each subscriber reads.

ferrywake · digest № 42
Bulk export for audit logsshipped TueIn digest
SSO domain captureshipped WedIn digest
New billing portaldraftingAI draft
Latency fix, EU regionneeds a sentenceTo write
DriftpostKelpworksNorthquaySignal&SonsMoorline

Everything between "we shipped it" and "they read it"

One harbor for release notes, digests, and delivery

Digest composer

Pull merged work straight into a numbered digest. Reorder, cut, and keep the reading time under two minutes.

Audience segments

Admins, end users, and trial accounts each get the cut of the news that matters to them.

Send-time autopilot

Every subscriber gets the digest at the hour they historically open mail. No more Tuesday-at-9 guesswork.

Open analytics

Opens, reads, and click-through per section — see which kind of shipping news your customers care about.

AI draft assist

Hand it a commit list; get back three plain-language digest entries. Each draft costs one credit.

API & webhooks

Post entries from CI, subscribe your status page, or mirror digests into your docs site.

Draft with AI

From commit noise to customer sentences

Paste a week of merge titles and Ferrywake drafts each one as a reader-facing entry — what changed, who it helps, what to click. You always edit before it ships.

  • Three suggested entries per credit
  • Tone locked to your past digests
  • Nothing sends without your approval
draft assist
feat: batch csv import v2 entry
"Import thousands of rows at once — CSV import now handles 50k-line files."
fix: tz drift in scheduler entry
"Scheduled sends now land on the right hour in every timezone."
Drafts with GPT-5 Claude Gemini

Quiet praise

Teams that stopped dreading release notes

"Our digest open rate went from 19% to 44% in six weeks. Turns out the product news was fine — the sending was wrong."

LK
Lena KovarProduct, Driftpost

"I paste the merge list on Friday, edit four sentences, and it's done. Release notes used to eat half my afternoon."

TO
Tomás OduyaFounder, Kelpworks

"Support tickets asking 'when did this change?' basically stopped. Customers just read the digest now."

MH
Mari HalonenSupport lead, Northquay

Questions

Frequently asked

From your repository's merge titles via the API, from CI webhooks, or from entries you type by hand. It never reads your source code — titles and descriptions only.

One credit is one AI drafting pass: up to three suggested digest entries from the material you provide. Sending digests never costs credits.

Yes — weekly, fortnightly, or "only major releases". Segments and personal frequency combine, so nobody gets mail they didn't ask for.

On the Fleet plan, yes. Subscriber data stays in the region you choose and is never used to train anything.

Your next digest could send itself.

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Pricing

Two plans, one honest credit pack

Subscriptions cover sending and analytics. AI drafting runs on credits, so you only pay for what you use.

Skiff

For a solo founder shipping weekly

$12 /mo
  • 1 digest audience, 500 subscribers
  • Send-time autopilot
  • Open & click analytics
  • 3 AI credits included monthly
Start with Skiff

Credit pack

Top up drafting anytime

$15 one-time
  • 20 AI drafting credits
  • Never expire
  • Shared across your team
  • Works on both plans
Buy credits

Prices are demo copy. Yearly billing takes two months off; students and open-source projects send free.

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Digest № 43 · sends Friday 09:00

Digest planner

Entries

Check an entry to mark it ready. Ready entries make the Friday send.

    Attachments

    Drop screenshots here, or click to attach
    (demo: click adds a sample file)

    Delivery

    • Audience: All subscribers (1,284)
    • Autopilot window: Fri 07:00–11:00
    • Reading time so far: 1 min 40 s

    Page views

    12,418
    8.2% vs yesterday

    Revenue

    $3,940
    12.0% this week

    Paying users

    128
    4 this week

    Signups

    356
    2.1% this week

    Revenue — last 12 weeks

    Top sources

    SourceVisitorsSignups
    Search4,982141
    Newsletter mentions2,34496
    Direct1,92158
    Community forum1,20441
    Docs referrals86620

    Newest users

    UserPlanStatus
    ana@driftpost.exampleFleetactive
    jon@kelpworks.exampleSkiffactive
    sam@moorline.exampleTrialday 6 of 14
    rita@northquay.exampleFleetpast due
    kei@signalsons.exampleTrialday 2 of 14