How we use PageBolt to send our own monthly usage reports

How We Use PageBolt to Send Our Own Monthly Usage Reports There's a moment in every developer tool company's life where someone on the team says: "wait, can't we just use our own product for this?" For us, that moment came when we looked at our customer success workflow. We were manually copying usage numbers into a Google Slides template every month, exporting to PDF, and emailing enterprise customers. The irony wasn't lost on us — we'd built an API that generates PDFs from HTML, and we weren't using it ourselves. Here's exactly what we built, why it works better than what we had before, and the specific code we shipped. What we were doing before Monthly, someone on the team would: Pull usage stats from our dashboard Open the Google Slides template Fill in the numbers manually for each customer Export to PDF Email it via Gmail For three customers, fine. At 15+ accounts, it was taking most of a morning. What we built A cron job that runs on the 1st of every month: // scripts/monthly-re