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...',

);

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:

Check what type of document they need (whitepaper, term sheet, memo, etc.)

Determine if they want AI generation or have existing content

Get the content - either from their message, a file, or use AI to generate

Ask for metadata if not provided (title, author, company name)

Use --company flag to inject company branding

Check if Pandoc is installed: which pandoc

If Pandoc missing, provide install instructions or suggest cloud API

Generate the PDF using the appropriate function

Send the PDF file to the user

AI Commands Quick Reference:

• ai "" - Generate new document from prompt


• enhance - Improve existing content


• summarize - Create executive summary


• --company "Name" - Add company branding to any command

Links

• npm:
• GitHub: