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Annual Letter PDF template — render it from Markdown

The annual letter is the one document shareholders keep. Set on US Letter with Playfair Display headings, a Merriweather body and a considered forest green, this template borrows the gravitas of the great shareholder letters — long-measure paragraphs for narrative, restrained tables for the record.

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Before & after

Plain Markdown in. A annual letter worth sending out.

Write the year in Markdown — the narrative up front, the numbers where they support it, the outlook to close. Inkrun sets it with the same typographic discipline every year, so the 2026 letter sits on a shelf next to 2025's as a matched set. The words change; the standard doesn't.

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# 2026 Annual Letter to Shareholders

**Northwind Holdings** · March 2026

To our shareholders,

Book value per share grew **14.2%** in 2026, against 9.8% for
our benchmark. More important than the number is how it was
earned: no leverage added, no accounting changes, one business
sold because we no longer understood its economics.

## The operating businesses

Our logistics group had its best year since acquisition.
Volume grew modestly; margin grew meaningfully — the pattern
we prize, because it comes from process rather than pricing.

| Segment    | Revenue | Op. margin | vs 2025 |
| ---------- | ------- | ---------- | ------- |
| Logistics  | $412M   | 18.4%      | +2.1pp  |
| Components | $268M   | 11.2%      | +0.4pp  |
| Software   | $95M    | 24.0%      | +3.6pp  |

## Mistakes

We held the components inventory build too long into the
downcycle. The cost was roughly $9M — a tuition bill, and we
record it here so we remember paying it.

## Looking forward

We enter 2027 with more cash than ideas, which history
suggests is the safer imbalance.

**J. R. Whitfield, Chairman**
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Render it your way

Three ways to render the annual letter.

Dashboard

Paste your Markdown in the editor, pick Annual Letter, and download the PDF — no code involved.

REST API
curl https://inkrun.dev/api/v1/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_..." \
  -H "Accept: application/pdf" \
  -d '{"template": "annual-letter", "markdown": "# ..."}' \
  --output annual-letter.pdf
MCP · your agent

Add the Inkrun MCP connector once, then ask your agent:

Draft our annual letter from these year-end notes and render it with the annual-letter template.
FAQ

Annual Letter template — common questions.

Can the letter run long — 15 or 20 pages?

Yes — the typography is designed for long-measure reading, and page numbering and heading scale stay consistent throughout.

Can we match our corporate palette?

Duplicate the template with your brand hex and preferred format; the editorial layout carries over unchanged.

How do we keep each year's letter consistent?

Render every year from the same template — the design is locked, so 2027's letter will match 2026's automatically.

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