A short charter, in four parts, for the editorial behavior of the system you're trusting with your morning.
Signal is something a thoughtful reader of your brief would want filed before breakfast, even if no one had written about it yet. It is rarely the news of the day. It is more often the second-day analysis, the unusually clear primary document, the slow-moving structural piece that puts today in context. We rank for explanatory power, not novelty.
Your brief is a short prose document — a paragraph or two — that we embed and use as the relevance target for a small reranker. Items above a calibrated threshold appear; items below don't. Highlights, saves, and explicit "more like this" promote; "hide source" demotes. The reranker is fine-tuned on editorial-judgment data, not engagement. Each item's match is shown with a one-line "why" so you can audit it.
Press releases dressed as analysis. Engagement-bait headlines on otherwise serious sources. Items already covered above your reading threshold this week. Anything that triggers our slop classifier — auto-generated SEO content, content-farm rewrites, AI-summarized rehashes. Sponsored placements never appear; the wire has no inventory to sell. We will lose stories to this filter. We would rather lose stories than waste your morning.
Every dispatch ships with a "this shouldn't be here" affordance on every item and a "you missed this" affordance at the bottom. Both feed the reranker directly and are reviewed by a human editor weekly. Substantive disagreements get a reply from a person, not a form letter. The editor's address is at the foot of every dispatch and at the foot of this page.