Summate
Summate
Black Friday50% off every plan until Nov 30

Everything you follow, in one daily brief.

Summate reads your newsletters, YouTube channels and blogs, then sends you one short brief at the hour you choose. Skim it in minutes, or open any story in full.

Start your free trialBuild a brief first
4.8

Loved by 6,000+ readers

As featured in

How it works

A week of feeds, folded into minutes.

7h 31m
of reading and watching this weekto read your brief

It reads everything. Every newsletter, video and post from the sources you pick, as soon as it lands.

This week12 pieces · 7h 31m
Your brief, tomorrow at 7:005 stories · 12 min
  • L
    Building a product org from zero to 500
    1h 24m

    Hire for the problem you'll have in a year, not the one you have now.

  • T
    Every gadget announced this week, ranked
    14m
  • N
    The infrastructure boom nobody is pricing in
    21m

    Capex is running ahead of revenue. Watch power and cooling, not chips.

  • H
    Sleep, light and the first hour of your day
    2h 41m

    Light before screens, caffeine after 90 minutes, a hard stop at night.

  • I
    Notes on this month's open model releases
    12m
  • V
    The surprising physics of everyday things
    31m
  • N
    What rate cuts mean for regional banks
    13m

    Margins compress first at banks with the most rate-sensitive deposits.

  • T
    The world this week, in brief
    9m
  • S
    Twelve things I learned shipping with LLMs
    8m
  • a
    Where the next wave of consumer apps comes from
    47m

    Distribution beats novelty. The winners ride existing habits.

  • A
    Highlights from the comments on forecasting
    19m
  • Y
    How to talk to users, a decade later
    32m

The algorithm

An algorithm on your side.

Feeds are built to keep you scrolling. Summate is built so you can stop. It reads everything you follow, keeps what matters to you, and gets better at it every week.

  • The noise never arrives

    Ads, sales, receipts and posts that only sell are taken out before your brief is written.

  • Your rules, in your words

    “No sports.” “Skip crypto prices.” Write a rule the way you'd say it, and it's followed.

  • One story, not five copies

    When everyone covers the same news, you read it once. The more outlets, the higher it goes.

  • It learns what you like

    What you open, finish and highlight gets more room. What you skip slowly gets less.

See how it decides

Try it, no account needed

Build your brief in thirty seconds.

Pick sources you already follow and a time. These are real feeds, and the headlines are what they published most recently.

1

Pick what you follow

2

Choose when it arrives

7:00 AMwith your coffee
5:00 AMNoon10:00 PM
3

Tell it what matters optional

Your briefTomorrow · 7:00 AM
4 sources, one brief

About 46 min of reading and watching a day, in a 2-minute read.

  • L
    Lenny's Newsletter
    OpenAI Dev Day 2026: The releases that actually matter
    Takeaways land here when your brief arrives
  • Y
    Y Combinator
    A camera that can see through walls
  • I
    Import AI
    Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
  • T
    The Verge
    Mr Wonderful does not think our data center reporting is very wonderful at all
Get this brief tomorrow at 7:00 AM

14-day free trial on the yearly plan. Cancel anytime.

The reader

Then read the whole thing, properly.

Any story in your brief opens in full, in a calm reader. The takeaways sit beside the text, each one pointing to where it came from. Select a sentence to keep it.

Slow SignalsAa

Slow Signals · Essay

The quiet comeback of the paper notebook

By Mara Ellis · 6 min read

In one line

People who work on screens all day are going back to paper for thinking, and keeping software for everything else.

For most of the last decade, the paper notebook looked like a relic. Phones took the calendar, the to-do list and the shopping list, and the notebook was left for students and the occasional architect.

Then something odd happened. The people who live inside their screens all day started carrying one again, and when you ask them why, they rarely talk about nostalgia.

They talk about speed, or rather the lack of it. Writing by hand is slow enough that you cannot copy what you hear. You have to decide what matters and compress it as you go, and that act of compressing is most of what makes an idea stick.

One designer I spoke to keeps a single notebook per quarter. Another uses index cards and throws most of them away on Fridays. The habits differ, but the reasons rhyme.

The notebook never asks for anything. It has no badge, no feed and no reason to open it other than the one you bring. Several people described it, almost word for word, as the only tool on their desk that waits for them.

None of this makes paper a replacement for software. Search, sharing and backups still matter, and nobody wants to retype a meeting.

The people who get the most out of it pair the two. Paper is for thinking; once a week, a short review moves the handful of things that still matter into whatever system they trust, and the rest is allowed to go.

It is a small ritual, and it scales badly on purpose. That might be the point.

If there is a lesson for the rest of our tools, it is that friction is not always a bug. A little resistance at the moment of capture buys a lot of clarity later, which is the opposite of what most of our apps are designed to do.

  • The full piece, first

    Every story opens in full, cleaned of clutter. The summary is there when you want it.

  • Takeaways you can check

    Each takeaway links to the passage it came from, so you can see what was actually said.

  • Highlights and notes

    Mark what stays with you and come back to it later.

  • Works offline

    Your brief is saved to your device, so a flight is just more reading time.

  • Your type, your width

    Serif or sans, larger text, a narrower column. Reading should feel like yours.

More about the reader

Sources

Bring everything you already follow.

Newsletters, YouTube channels, blogs and any site with a feed. If it publishes, Summate can read it for you.

Subscribe with your own Summate address, or forward the ones you already get. Your personal inbox stays for people.

What arrives

From
Lenny's Newsletter <[email protected]>6:05 AM
To
[email protected]
LLenny's Newsletter

How the best product teams decide what not to build

Every roadmap meeting I sat in this year had the same problem: plenty of good ideas, and no shared way to say no to any of them. The teams that ship the most write down what they won't build this quarter, and they share that list before anyone pitches.

It sounds like process for its own sake. In practice it's the opposite. A short no-list ends the debate you've had five times, because the decision is already on paper with the reason next to it.

The other habit worth stealing: every yes gets an owner and a date it's cut if it doesn't move a metric. Most features never get that date, which is how a backlog turns into a museum.

In your brief

LLenny's Newsletter18 min read

How the best product teams decide what not to build

  1. 1Write the no-list first, and share it before the pitches.
  2. 2A decision on paper ends the debate that keeps coming back.
  3. 3Every yes gets an owner, and a date it's cut if nothing moves.

Each takeaway is marked in the email it came from. Open it any time.

Readers

6,000+ people start their day with a brief.

4.8
average rating
Since 2023
independent and bootstrapped
I'm honestly shocked how well it works. […] In a time where every educational video is 1h+, this is genuinely useful.
R
Rob
Content Creator
After two weeks of testing, the conclusion is clear: Summate saved me precious time. […] I can read everything in less than 20 minutes.
F
Fidel Navamuel
@OutilsE
The best way to keep your attention focused if you're subscribed to dozens of newsletters.
V
Val Klyukin
ML Engineer
I'm not a fanboy of A.I. Tools, but this strikes me as actually useful
A
AI Supremacy
@AISupremacyNews
[…] game changer & onboarding is so quick, i was set up in less than 5 mins 🔥
M
Mohamed
@momito
This is a really good idea!! Freaking dope 🔥
Y
Youssef Srondy
@Sronds
Top tool featured in our daily AI newsletter!
B
Ben's Bites
#1 AI Newsletter
My daily tech & AI newsletters were overwhelming my inbox, so I started using @summateio […] my inbox is so much more manageable! ✨
C
Chris Lozeau
@chrislozeau
I hate email. But Summate makes me hate email less.
S
Sam Anderson
Designer
i need something like this in my life bc my inbox is always cluttered with newsletters I want to read but don't have time to […]
V
Vishrut Thoutam
@Vishrut97442

Picked as an AI personal assistant

In their guide to reading newsletters

Picked in Cool Tools, their trending launches

Read by people at

GoogleAppleMetaOpenAIAnthropicAirbnbAmazonLinkedInUberY Combinatora16zSequoiaBloombergDatabricks

Pricing

One plan. Everything in it.

Simple pricing, and your price never goes up for as long as you stay.

Summate50% off until Nov 30
$20$
/ month

Billed $120 a year, after a 14-day free trial.

Start your 14-day free trial

No questions asked if you cancel.

Everything included

  • As many briefs as you like
  • 2,000 AI credits every month
  • Daily, weekly or your own schedule
  • Your own address for newsletters
  • YouTube channels, blogs and feeds
  • Summary styles and your own notes
  • The reader, with takeaways and highlights
  • Ready-made templates to start fast
  • Priority support and early features
An article or newsletter uses one credit. A video uses one to three, depending on length. How pricing works

Questions

Good questions, short answers.

Something else on your mind? Write to [email protected]. A person reads every email.

How does Summate work?

Connect the sources you follow, pick when you want your brief, and Summate does the rest. It reads everything new and sends one brief with the key takeaways. Anything worth your full attention opens in the reader.

Which sources does it support?

YouTube channels, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Ghost, WordPress, any RSS feed and most blogs. Newsletters arrive through your own Summate address.

What is a Summate inbox?

Your personal address ([email protected]) for newsletters. Subscribe with it anywhere you'd use your email, or forward newsletters you already get, and they're summarized in your brief.

How long does setup take?

About five minutes. Start from a template or pick your own sources, and your first brief can arrive the same day.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. The yearly plan starts with a 14-day free trial, so you can see if Summate fits your routine before paying. Monthly plans are charged right away and you can cancel anytime.

What are AI credits?

Your monthly summary allowance. An article or newsletter uses one credit; a YouTube video uses one to three depending on length (under 30 minutes is one, under two hours is two, longer is three). 2,000 credits is plenty for most people.

What if I run out of credits?

A brief that needs more credits than you have left is skipped, and we email you. Credits refill on the 1st of every month. If you regularly need more, write to us.

Will I miss something important?

No. Everything is saved and searchable in your account. The brief shows the highlights, and the full piece is always one click away.

How does it know what I care about?

You pick the sources and topics, and write rules like “no sports” in your own words. Then it learns from what you read: the sources and topics you open, finish and highlight get more room. The algorithm page (summate.io/algorithm) explains it step by step.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes, from your account settings, no questions asked. You keep access until the end of your billing period.

Can I delete my data?

Yes. Cancel your subscription, then ask for account deletion, and we remove everything within 48 hours.

Tomorrow at 7:00,your first brief.

Set it up in five minutes. If it doesn't earn a place in your morning, cancel anytime.

Start your free trialBuild a brief first
Raduan Al-Shedivat
Most apps are built to take more of your attention. We're a bootstrapped team of three building the opposite: a tool you open once a day and close feeling done.
Raduan, founder of Summate