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How it works

Polylog produces each briefing through a pipeline that runs automatically on a schedule. For a personalized briefing, you do not have to do anything after setup. Here is what happens behind the scenes.

Reading widely, reporting carefully​

Polylog works the way a careful newsroom does: gather widely, distrust any single source, weigh competing accounts, and report only what holds up. It reads across the world's press in the original languages, cross-checks what it finds, and writes a synthesis rather than handing you a list of links. The goal is to remove bias and report what actually happened, not to repeat the loudest version of a story.

The pipeline, end to end​

  1. The profile. For a personalized briefing, your topics, weights, custom labels, language, and length are distilled into a reader profile that describes what you want to know. See Personalization.
  2. A scheduled trigger. A background process checks the clock continuously and wakes up when a briefing is due, in the right timezone.
  3. Live research. Polylog searches the current web for what is happening across the relevant topics, reading sources in their original languages, not only in English. See Sourcing and veracity.
  4. Synthesis. The research is read and written up as a briefing: a clear summary followed by the full piece, at the chosen length, in a precise, confident editorial voice.
  5. Fact-checking. Contested claims are checked against multiple sources, including deliberately adversarial ones, and given a veracity verdict, so you know what is confirmed and what is still in dispute.
  6. Continuity. Open storylines, recent entities, and your feedback are remembered, so tomorrow's briefing builds on today's rather than starting from scratch. See Macro trends.
  7. Delivery. The finished briefing is sent to the web, email, or Telegram. See Delivery channels.

Synthesized and grounded​

Two things are worth emphasizing, because they are what set Polylog apart.

  • It is synthesis, not just a feed. Polylog does not hand you a list of links. It reads the landscape and writes a single coherent piece, the way a sharp editor would brief you.
  • It is grounded. The synthesis is anchored to live web sources and fact-checked, so the quality of the writing never comes at the cost of accuracy.

The editorial standard​

Briefings are written to a deliberate standard. They aim for the clarity and authority of outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Al Jazeera. They use an informed-adult reading level, expand all acronyms, and favor literal, fact-based prose over hype. They use a multi-perspective frame that does not default to a single national viewpoint. The goal is signal, not noise.