Vertical Briefs

Nineteen news desks. One system.

Vertical Briefs is a network of nineteen focused news publications, each covering a single subject properly rather than covering everything badly — sport, money, health, science, gaming, fashion, food, crypto, law, space, celebrity, streaming, careers, travel, religion, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, consumer gear and household savings.

Each runs on its own subdomain with its own name, navigation, categories and editorial rules. Underneath, they share one system: the same ingestion, clustering, summarising, image and publishing pipeline, maintained in one codebase.

19publications

4,763stories published

19RSS feeds

24/7updating

The publications

How it works

Each publication runs the same unattended pipeline on a timer:

Ingest — pulls public RSS feeds chosen per vertical, and rejects feeds that return nothing.
Cluster — groups items covering the same event, so one story is written per event rather than per outlet.
Summarise — a local language model writes the summary, a "why it matters" line, body copy and an FAQ, strictly from the source text.
Gate — deterministic rules in code, not prompt wording, block the failure modes each vertical is prone to: medical claims, legal outcomes stated as fact, financial advice, scam content, off-vertical leakage.
Image — caches a lead image per story locally, and blocks known junk images by hash.
Publish — sitemaps, RSS, canonical tags and internal links, then the cycle repeats.

Where the reporting comes from

These are summary publications. Every story begins as a public RSS feed item from another publisher's reporting. Summaries are written by a language model running locally, strictly from that source text, and every story names its source and links out to the publisher so you can read the original. What the network adds is grouping, context and consistent presentation — not interviews, not sources of its own, and not facts the publisher did not report.

Each publication carries its own sources, attribution and corrections policy on its /about page. Publishers who would like a feed excluded can reach us through any publication's /contact page.

Following the briefs

Every publication publishes its own feed at /rss.xml, so you can follow a single desk or all nineteen. Each also keeps an archive, and its own about, privacy and terms pages.

The publications

Money and markets

Technology

Science, health and machines

Life and culture

Work and public life

How it works

Following the briefs