diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f3dd84d..cbadfc4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@mendable/firecrawl-js": "^1.8.1",
     "@supabase/supabase-js": "^2.46.1",
+    "axios": "^1.7.9",
     "dotenv": "^14.3.2",
     "express": "^4.18.2",
     "express-async-handler": "^1.2.0",
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@
     "playht": "^0.13.0",
     "resend": "^4.0.1-alpha.0",
     "together-ai": "^0.9.0",
-    "ts-node-dev": "^2.0.0"
+    "ts-node-dev": "^2.0.0",
+    "zod": "^3.24.1",
+    "zod-to-json-schema": "^3.24.1"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/controllers/cron.ts b/src/controllers/cron.ts
index bd2eb4a..af2b15f 100644
--- a/src/controllers/cron.ts
+++ b/src/controllers/cron.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { scrapeSources } from '../services/scrapeSources';
 import { getCronSources } from '../services/getCronSources';
 import { generateDraft } from '../services/generateDraft';
 import { sendDraft } from '../services/sendDraft';
+
 export const handleCron = async (): Promise<void> => {
   try {
     const cronSources = await getCronSources();
@@ -13,4 +14,4 @@ export const handleCron = async (): Promise<void> => {
   } catch (error) {
     console.error(error);
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 2a12fbc..b2a2971 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
+import 'dotenv/config'
 import { handleCron } from "./controllers/cron"
 import cron from 'node-cron';
-import dotenv from 'dotenv';
-
-dotenv.config();
 
 async function main() {
   console.log(`Starting process to generate draft...`);
@@ -15,4 +13,4 @@ main();
 //cron.schedule(`0 17 * * *`, async () => {
 //  console.log(`Starting process to generate draft...`);
 //  await handleCron();
-//});
\ No newline at end of file
+//});
diff --git a/src/services/getCronSources.ts b/src/services/getCronSources.ts
index 227dfbb..0b8783f 100644
--- a/src/services/getCronSources.ts
+++ b/src/services/getCronSources.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
 
-import dotenv from 'dotenv';
-
-dotenv.config();
-
-
-
 export async function getCronSources() {
   try {
     console.log("Fetching sources...");
@@ -31,12 +25,11 @@ export async function getCronSources() {
       { identifier: "https://x.com/nickscamara_"},
       { identifier: "https://x.com/ericciarla"},
       { identifier: "https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog"},
-      
+
     ];
 
     return sources.map(source => source.identifier);
   } catch (error) {
     console.error(error);
   }
-} 
-  
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/services/scrapeSources.ts b/src/services/scrapeSources.ts
index 2c377ad..797f114 100644
--- a/src/services/scrapeSources.ts
+++ b/src/services/scrapeSources.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 import FirecrawlApp from '@mendable/firecrawl-js';
-import dotenv from 'dotenv';
 import Together from 'together-ai';
 import { z } from 'zod';
 import { zodToJsonSchema } from 'zod-to-json-schema';
 
-dotenv.config();
-
 const app = new FirecrawlApp({ apiKey: process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_KEY });
 
 // 1. Define the schema for your expected JSON
@@ -114,9 +111,9 @@ export async function scrapeSources(sources: string[]) {
               {
                 role: "system",
                 content: `Today is ${currentDate}. Return only today's AI or LLM related story or post headlines and links in JSON format from the scraped content. They must be posted today. The format should be {"stories": [{"headline": "headline1", "link": "link1", "date_posted": "date1"}, ...]}.
-If there are no AI or LLM stories from today, return {"stories": []}. The source link is ${source}. 
-If the story or post link is not absolute, prepend ${source} to make it absolute. 
-Return only pure JSON in the specified format (no extra text, no markdown, no \`\`\`). 
+If there are no AI or LLM stories from today, return {"stories": []}. The source link is ${source}.
+If the story or post link is not absolute, prepend ${source} to make it absolute.
+Return only pure JSON in the specified format (no extra text, no markdown, no \`\`\`).
 Scraped Content:\n\n${scrapeResponse.markdown}\n\nJSON:`,
               },
             ],
diff --git a/src/services/sendDraft.ts b/src/services/sendDraft.ts
index 359dccf..93768bd 100644
--- a/src/services/sendDraft.ts
+++ b/src/services/sendDraft.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 import axios from 'axios';
-import dotenv from 'dotenv';
-dotenv.config();
 
 export async function sendDraft(draft_post: string) {
   try {
@@ -21,4 +19,4 @@ export async function sendDraft(draft_post: string) {
     console.log('error sending draft to Slack');
     console.log(error);
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}