A daily podcast with an audience of one.
Not the news everyone gets. The markets you hold, the meetings in your diary and the subjects you actually follow — researched overnight, written into a script and read to you before you leave the house.
Nothing to install — your episode plays in the browser. Two minutes to set up, then it runs on its own.
Rates hold, your 9:30 moved to Thursday, and rain from four.
- 01HeadlinesFour stories, AP and Reuters
- 02Your morning3 meetings · first at 9:30
- 03MarketsYour watchlist, plus the Fed
- 04TechnologyFunding and releases
- 05Local newsManchester
- 06WeatherRain from four
Written for one listener
Every episode is generated from scratch against your profile — what you do, where you live, what you follow. Nobody else is getting this one.
Your day, not just the day
Your diary is a segment. So is your weather, your watchlist and your local news. You set what appears and the order it appears in.
It shows its working
Every segment carries the notes and sources it was built from. Open the drawer, read what it read, and judge it yourself.
How it works
Two minutes of setup, then it runs without you.
The point of a briefing is that you stop maintaining it. You describe yourself once, adjust the run sheet when your life changes, and otherwise just listen.
- 01
Tell it who you are
Four screens, once. Your name, where you are, what you do, and the subjects you want covered. It uses the answers to decide what counts as news for you — a semiconductor story matters differently to a chip engineer than to a nurse.
- 02
Write the run sheet
Turn segments on and off, drag them into the order you want to hear them, and leave a note where you want something handled a particular way. Pick a length and a narrator while you are there.
- 03
Wake up to a new episode
It researches overnight and publishes at your local time — seven in the morning unless you say otherwise. Press play, or read the script instead. Every issue is kept in your library.
Inside an episode
Eleven segments. You choose which ones make the cut.
Every segment is optional and every segment is ordered by you. Switch one off for a fortnight and switch it back on without losing how you had it set up.
Headlines
The stories of the morning, wire-first.
Your calendar
What is in the diary, who is in the room, and where the gaps are.
Markets
Your watchlist, the macro events that move it, and what is reporting this week.
Weather
The forecast where you actually are.
Local news
Your town, not your country.
Politics & world
The regions you asked to be kept across.
Industry
Your sector — funding, regulation, the companies you named.
Technology
Releases and raises in the areas you follow.
Science & health
Findings worth knowing, without the press-release voice.
Culture
What is out, and whether it is any good.
Sports
Your teams and competitions, results and what is next.
Add a note to any segment — “skip transfer rumours”, “I care about the vote count, not the horse race” — and the writer works to it.
Length, voice, hour
Made to fit the gap you actually have.
A briefing you have to make time for is a briefing you stop playing. Pick the length that matches the part of your morning you would otherwise spend scrolling.
Choose who reads it.
Audition the narrators and pick one. Nothing generates until you have — a voice you did not choose is not a default, it is a mistake, so the app waits for you.
And it publishes at your local time. Seven in the morning unless you move it.
- JenniferCinematic American English, female
- EthanWarm and energetic, male
Connections
It knows what today looks like, because you told it.
A news summary does not know you have three meetings and a train to catch. Attach your calendar and the briefing stops being about the world in general.
Calendars
ConnectGoogle or Outlook, personal and work alike — or paste a subscription link when an account will not connect, which is how a university timetable gets in. You tick exactly which calendars count.
Weather
Built inNothing to connect. The forecast follows the location on your brief, so it is your morning being described, not your country’s.
On the workbench
Not yetDesigned and next in the queue. Listed here so you know where it is going, not because you can use it today.
Newsletters
An address of your own to forward to, so the newsletters you already receive get read into the briefing without setting them up one by one.
Podcasts
Follow a show and hear the points from each new episode, taken from the transcript where one is published and the episode notes where it is not.
Receipts
A briefing you can check.
Anything that reads the news to you is asking for trust. This one hands you the working: what each segment drew on, and a way through to the original.
- Sources on every segmentOpen the notes drawer on any part of any episode and see what it was built from.
- The script, in fullPrefer to read it? The written brief is there beside the audio, section by section.
- Every issue keptYour library holds the lot, each one numbered and headlined with what it was about.
“The committee held rates for a third meeting. Your two holdings both report on Thursday, and the guidance either of them gives will matter more than the print did.”
- Reuters — rate decision, 06:14
- AP — statement in full, 06:02
- Company filing — Q3 date confirmed
Questions
The things people ask first.
Is this just a news podcast?
No. A news podcast is recorded once for everybody. This is researched and written for you each morning against your own profile and your own run sheet — your watchlist, your town, your diary, your subjects. Two listeners on the same day get two different episodes.
Where does the news come from?
It researches the open web at generation time rather than working from a fixed feed, and every segment records what it drew on. You can open the notes on any part of any episode and see the list.
What do you do with my calendar?
It reads the day’s events — titles, attendees and locations, not only the times — because a briefing that knows you have a meeting but not who it is with is not much use. You can disconnect from the app or from your Google or Microsoft account at any time. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Can I read it instead of listening?
Yes. The written brief sits beside the audio, broken into the same segments, so you can skim it on a train where you would rather not have headphones in.
How long does setup take?
Four screens — call it two minutes. Length and narrator are chosen afterwards, on the screen where the episode actually gets made, so setup stays about who you are rather than about settings.
What does it cost?
Nothing during early access. We are running a small, invite-led group while the pipeline is proven end to end, and we would rather have a short list of people who use it every day than a long one who tried it once.
Tomorrow morning, something is waiting that was made for you.
Early access is a small group while the pipeline is proven end to end. Ask for a place and we will be in touch.