Citizen's Daily Brief

Stalefish Labs

About this app

Citizen's Daily Brief is a daily intelligence assessment for the public, modeled on the structure intelligence agencies use to brief decision-makers. Every morning, Monday through Saturday, it delivers five to nine assessed items: not a feed of headlines, but a clear read on what actually changed and what it means.

Reporting today is as good as it has ever been. What is missing for most people is the layer above it, the synthesis that says "here is what it all adds up to, and here is how confident we are." Citizen's Daily Brief is that layer.

EACH ITEM ANSWERS FOUR QUESTIONS
• What changed
• Why it matters
• What to watch next
• How confident we are, and how much the sources agree

TRUST SIGNALS YOU CAN SEE
Every item carries two signals. Confidence (high, moderate, or developing) reflects how solid the picture is. Agreement (broad, mixed, or disputed) reflects how much the sources line up. Both are cross-checked against the actual sources before publication, so a single-source story cannot be dressed up as settled fact.

SHOW YOUR WORK
Open any item to see the evidence behind it: the sources, the common ground, the open questions, and how the story developed over time. Most news products hide the process. We made it the product.

A WEEKLY ASSESSMENT
Every Sunday, a longer assessment steps back from the daily flow to trace the threads that matter over a longer horizon.

FREE, FOR EVERYONE
The brief is free. No ads. No account required. No personalization and no algorithm, so everyone sees the same brief. If you find it valuable, you can support the work voluntarily, the way you might support a public library or a nonprofit newsroom. Nothing is locked behind payment.

OPEN METHODOLOGY
The pipeline is automated and the method is published. You can read exactly how items are selected, scored, and assessed, and how the trust signals are calculated. Read it in the app under Methodology, or at citizensdailybrief.org.

Citizen's Daily Brief is a Stalefish Labs project.

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Welcome to Citizen's Daily Brief.

A free daily intelligence assessment for the public. Modeled on the President's Daily Brief format, with published methodology and explicit trust signals on every item. Free, ad-free, no personalization — same brief for everyone.