A daily intelligence-style assessment modeled on the President's Daily Brief, adapted for the public.
A structured daily assessment of significant world events, designed for citizens who want to understand the world without the noise.
Most news is optimized for engagement. The Citizen’s Daily Brief is optimized for understanding — fewer stories covered better, with the context and sourcing to actually trust what you’re reading.
July 30, 2026 · by Michael Morrison
The Citizen's Daily Brief runs on Claude, GitHub Actions, Supabase, and Netlify for pocket change. But cheap to run and easy to build are different things, and the gap between them is the whole story.
July 28, 2026 · by Michael Morrison
The Citizen's Daily Brief keeps two clocks — a timeline of when things happened, and a source list of when news outlets filed. The spec wanted one component doing both jobs. Splitting them was the better call.
July 23, 2026 · by Michael Morrison
Reading the Citizen's Daily Brief never asks for a login, and every surface is free — daily, weekly, archive, FICINT. Support is voluntary and web-only, gets you no extra content, and deliberately routes around the App Store.
July 21, 2026 · by Michael Morrison
Most AI product stories are about the AI. In the Citizen's Daily Brief, the AI is infrastructure — like a database or a cron job. The product is the format.
June 25, 2026 · by Michael Morrison
The CDB's validation pipeline replaces human editorial judgment with mechanical constraints. Every rule in the validator represents a quality question answered permanently in code.
June 23, 2026 · by Michael Morrison
In a portfolio full of playful apps, we intentionally made something that feels like a government report. Here's why rejecting every modern app design pattern was the most interesting decision we made.
