Briefings: Your Personal Executive Briefing
The engine behind my AI newsletter, now open source.
About a year ago, I started heavily investing in using AI to help me be more productive. One of the first things I did was put AI to work on the thing it’s genuinely good at: summarizing content.
Since AI was moving fast, I wondered if I could get AI to summarize AI.
The experiment worked. What started as a personal tool eventually became “Briefs,” a section of my newsletter. For the last 10 months, I’ve had a service that read through thousands of articles a week, summarizing and distilling them into a single weekly post.
I constantly honed the prompts to make the output feel more human and sharp — less AI slop, more Puck. It took a lot of iteration to get there.
Today I’m sun-setting Briefs to make room for other content on Frank’s Takeaways. But I’ve refactored the code and I’m open sourcing it as Briefings for anyone to use.
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