Launching today
Citizen's Daily Brief
The President's Daily Brief, for everyone. Free.
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The President's Daily Brief, for everyone. Free.
6 followers
A free daily intelligence brief modeled on the President's Daily Brief. 5–9 assessed items each morning — what changed, why it matters, what to watch, and how confident we are — with the sources and reasoning shown. No account, no ads. The same brief for everyone.
Love that you show the sources and confidence level right there, that transparency is the best part. One thing I'd love is a simple weekly recap that rolls up the biggest threads across the seven days, so I can see patterns instead of just isolated daily items.
@kriyeino9 Thank you — the transparency is the part I care most about too, so that lands well.
And good news on the weekly recap: it already exists. Every Sunday there's a Weekly Assessment that reads back across the whole week and pulls out the throughlines: the biggest threads, how they developed, what connects them, rather than just restating the dailies. It's the one piece that's explicitly about patterns over isolated items.
Free like everything else: citizensdailybrief.org/weekly
Would genuinely love to know if that's the shape of what you had in mind.
Love how you show your confidence level right next to each item instead of hiding it. That transparency about uncertainty is a small thing but it makes the whole brief feel like real intelligence work instead of hot takes.
@hiranurpkuv That's exactly the line I was hoping to walk, so thank you. The part I care about most is that the confidence rating isn't decorative, it's cross-checked against how many independent sources actually back the item, so a single-source story literally can't wear a "high confidence" badge. Showing the uncertainty is the whole point, not a footnote.
Love the transparency with sources and confidence ratings right there in the brief. One thing I'd suggest is adding a short "what we got wrong" section at the end of each week's brief, recapping previous predictions and how they played out. It would build trust over time and make the confidence scores feel even more honest.
@kutbay_yag17555 Thank you, and honestly you've named the most important next step. The Weekly Assessment already owns up to where the week's early calls proved incomplete, but what you're describing is stronger: systematically revisiting past confidence levels and showing how they actually resolved. That's what turns "confidence: moderate" from a label into a track record. Going to the top of my list, genuinely grateful for the push.