ai-pdf-builder

AI PDF Builder

Generate professional PDFs from Markdown with AI-powered content generation. Perfect for:

• Whitepapers & Litepapers
• Term Sheets
• SAFEs & NDAs
• Memos & Reports
• Legal Agreements

What's New in v1.1.0

• AI Content Generation - Generate documents from prompts using Claude
• --company Flag - Inject company name directly via CLI
• enhance Command - Improve existing content with AI
• summarize Command - Generate executive summaries from documents
• Content Sanitization - Automatic cleanup of AI-generated content

Requirements

Option A: Local Generation (Free, Unlimited)

# macOS
brew install pandoc
brew install --cask basictex
sudo tlmgr install collection-fontsrecommended fancyhdr titlesec enumitem xcolor booktabs longtable geometry hyperref graphicx setspace array multirow

# Linux
sudo apt-get install pandoc texlive-full

Option B: Cloud API (Coming Soon) No install required. Get API key at ai-pdf-builder.com

For AI Features: Set your Anthropic API key:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-key-here"

Usage

Check System

npx ai-pdf-builder check

Generate via CLI

# From markdown file
npx ai-pdf-builder generate whitepaper ./content.md -o output.pdf

# With company name
npx ai-pdf-builder generate whitepaper ./content.md -o output.pdf --company "Acme Corp"

# Document types: whitepaper, memo, agreement, termsheet, safe, nda, report, proposal

AI Content Generation (New!)

# Generate a whitepaper from a prompt
npx ai-pdf-builder ai whitepaper "Write a whitepaper about decentralized identity" -o identity.pdf

# Generate with company branding
npx ai-pdf-builder ai whitepaper "AI in healthcare" -o healthcare.pdf --company "HealthTech Inc"

# Generate other document types
npx ai-pdf-builder ai termsheet "Series A for a fintech startup" -o termsheet.pdf
npx ai-pdf-builder ai memo "Q4 strategy update" -o memo.pdf --company "TechCorp"

Enhance Existing Content (New!)

# Improve and expand existing markdown
npx ai-pdf-builder enhance ./draft.md -o enhanced.md

# Enhance and convert to PDF in one step
npx ai-pdf-builder enhance ./draft.md -o enhanced.pdf --pdf

Summarize Documents (New!)

# Generate executive summary
npx ai-pdf-builder summarize ./long-document.md -o summary.md

# Summarize as PDF
npx ai-pdf-builder summarize ./report.pdf -o summary.pdf --pdf

Generate via Code

import { generateWhitepaper, generateTermsheet, generateSAFE, aiGenerate, enhance, summarize } from 'ai-pdf-builder';

// AI-Generated Whitepaper
const aiResult = await aiGenerate('whitepaper', 
  'Write about blockchain scalability solutions',
  { company: 'ScaleChain Labs' }
);

// Whitepaper from content
const result = await generateWhitepaper(
  '# My Whitepaper\n\nContent here...',
  { title: 'Project Name', author: 'Your Name', version: 'v1.0', company: 'Acme Corp' }
);

if (result.success) {
  fs.writeFileSync('whitepaper.pdf', result.buffer);
}

// Enhance existing content
const enhanced = await enhance(existingMarkdown);

// Summarize a document
const summary = await summarize(longDocument);

// Term Sheet with company
const termsheet = await generateTermsheet(
  '# Series Seed Term Sheet\n\n## Investment Amount\n\n$500,000...',
  { title: 'Series Seed', subtitle: 'Your Company Inc.', company: 'Investor LLC' }
);

// SAFE
const safe = await generateSAFE(
  '# Simple Agreement for Future Equity\n\n...',
  { title: 'SAFE Agreement', subtitle: 'Your Company Inc.' }
);

Document Types

Type	Function	Best For
whitepaper	generateWhitepaper()	Technical docs, litepapers
memo	generateMemo()	Executive summaries
agreement	generateAgreement()	Legal contracts
termsheet	generateTermsheet()	Investment terms
safe	generateSAFE()	SAFE agreements
nda	generateNDA()	Non-disclosure agreements
report	generateReport()	Business reports
proposal	generateProposal()	Business proposals

Custom Branding

const result = await generateWhitepaper(content, metadata, {
  customColors: {
    primary: '#E85D04',    // Signal Orange
    secondary: '#14B8A6',  // Coordinate Teal
    accent: '#0D0D0D'      // Frontier Dark
  },
  fontSize: 11,
  margin: '1in',
  paperSize: 'letter'
});

Agent Instructions

When a user asks to generate a PDF:

1. Check what type of document they need (whitepaper, term sheet, memo, etc.)
2. Determine if they want AI generation or have existing content
3. Get the content - either from their message, a file, or use AI to generate
4. Ask for metadata if not provided (title, author, company name)
5. Use --company flag to inject company branding
6. Check if Pandoc is installed: which pandoc
7. If Pandoc missing, provide install instructions or suggest cloud API
8. Generate the PDF using the appropriate function
9. Send the PDF file to the user

AI Commands Quick Reference:

• ai <type> "<prompt>" - Generate new document from prompt
• enhance <file> - Improve existing content
• summarize <file> - Create executive summary
• --company "Name" - Add company branding to any command

Links

• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ai-pdf-builder
• GitHub: https://github.com/NextFrontierBuilds/ai-pdf-builder