carrotA personal news brief
Your work. Your rabbit holes. That thing you can’t stop reading about.
We’re building Carrot to turn the interests you choose into briefings, with sources and space for follow-up questions.
See how it worksIn development for iPhone and Android.
Room for a very specific interest.
Explore Carrot through three steps.
The examples use prepared content, not live research.
“Keep me up to date on battery research and recycling. Skip the stock prices.”
Speak or type. Carrot organises your request into a stream it can research. You don’t have to write a perfect prompt.
A guide to your first stream
Keep different interests in separate streams. The roundup brings a few developments together; the side panel takes you straight to a particular topic.
Open what interests you. Leave the rest for another time.
Roundups, streams and stories explained
Open a story for the explanation behind it. Follow its sources to the original material, or ask a question right where you’re reading.
Choose the amount of detail and writing style in your stream settings.
How to check a summary against its sources
A useful brief helps you decide what deserves your attention. Some days that’s a quick skim. Other days, one story sends you further.
Carrot keeps the question box and the sources within reach.
“What does this change?
What’s still uncertain?
Where can I read more?”
Follow the thread
Start with a question, then follow it wherever the evidence leads.
Start with the basics, or explore how to check a summary.
What is a personalised news brief? →How to check an AI news summary →From the blog
How a finite briefing differs from a feed, and how streams, a roundup and individual stories can organise interests.
Give your personal news brief a subject, a boundary and a useful angle. Examples for research, work and interests, without complicated prompting.
A practical source-checking routine: identify the claim, open the original, compare dates and numbers, and notice what the summary leaves uncertain.
Partly because hard things happen, partly because negative headlines tend to win clicks, and partly because feeds rarely end. What the evidence shows, and how to keep up without losing track of what has changed.
Mainly the stories you didn’t know to ask for. What the research says about filter bubbles, what readers worry about, and three simple ways to keep a wider view.
A fair comparison: what chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini can already do for news, when they are the better choice, and the narrower job Carrot is being built for.
A three-line note and four quick questions to help you tell whether new coverage moves a story on, with an illustrative example.
Carrot is a personalised news briefing app in development for iPhone and Android. It is designed to research chosen interests, link to sources and support follow-up questions.
The alpha is designed to research the web around saved interests and include links to sources. AI can make mistakes or miss context, so check the original source when a claim matters.
The earlier alpha included a typing option for interests and questions. The interface may change as Carrot develops.
No paid plans are offered on this website. Pricing for a public launch has not been announced.
Public downloads are not available on this website. Carrot is in development for iPhone and Android.
Still growing
Carrot is in development for iPhone and Android. There is no public download on this website.
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