Terms of Service

news.briefer.media is a paid subscription that sends one email every morning, summarising local news for the country you picked. The service currently covers Timor-Leste and Laos. The email goes out each morning at around 08:00 local time.

You tell us your focus area and a list of keywords. We use both to decide which of the day's stories to write up and which to drop.

You sign up with an email and a password. A briefing can carry up to 25 recipient addresses — those are the inboxes that actually receive the morning mail.

You're responsible for having permission to add those addresses. Every message has a one-click unsubscribe link that works without a password and without going through you. If a recipient unsubscribes, we remove them and we don't ask you first.

US$54.99 per month, or US$549 per year (roughly two months off). One briefing is one subscription: adding a second country creates a separate subscription with its own billing cycle.

Every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial. Your card isn't charged during those 7 days. Cancel any time before day 8 and we charge nothing. Don't cancel and we bill on day 8, then keep billing on the cycle you chose until you stop us.

Billing runs through our payment provider, which acts as the merchant of record. Invoices, taxes, refunds, and payment methods live in their system; we never see or store your card. You manage all of it from a link on the billing page in your dashboard.

Cancel from the billing page whenever you want. Cancellation isn't instant: you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for, and then the briefing pauses and deliveries stop.

We keep your configuration. Come back in a month or a year and you can resume without rebuilding it.

If a payment fails, the payment provider retries for several days. If the retries also fail, the subscription expires and we stop sending. We'll email you before that happens.

We don't automatically refund partial periods because the billing plumbing doesn't support it cleanly. If something's genuinely wrong (a duplicate charge, a failure on our side, an upgrade mid-cycle that billed badly), email hello@briefer.mediaand we'll work it out.

We aggregate publicly available news from established outlets in each covered country. A language model writes each summary, using your focus description and keyword list as guidance. Every item links back to the original publisher.

We don't republish articles, don't claim copyright over them, and don't speak for the outlets they came from.

The summaries come out of software, so they can be wrong. Names get misspelled, context goes missing, the wrong story gets picked. Treat the brief as a starting point: for anything you'd make a decision on, click through and read the original.

Don't use the service to harass, to spam, to scrape our output and rebuild it somewhere else, or to end-run a publisher's terms. Don't hand out one login as a company-wide distribution point — that's what recipients are for.

If we think you're doing any of the above, we'll ask you to stop. If you don't, we'll cancel the subscription.

Some mornings the send fails. A source goes offline, an LLM provider has an outage, a cron job doesn't fire. We watch for this and retry where we can, but we don't guarantee delivery on any specific day, and we don't issue automatic credits for days that go dark. If you notice one, flag it.

The service is provided as is. We're not liable for decisions you or anyone else makes on the basis of a summary — use the linked originals for anything that matters.

This page will change as the product does. Material changes go to the account owner by email at least 14 days before they take effect. If you don't like a change, cancel during that window; the old terms keep governing until your paid period runs out.

The operating entity for news.briefer.media and the jurisdiction for disputes will be named here before general launch. The current state of the service is a pre-launch preview, run under the informal control of the site owner (gianpiero.vecchi@gmail.com). If having a named counterparty is important to you, wait until launch.