I noticed my information diet was making me dumber in a specific way. Single-lens news running in the background all day: same stories, same angle, same three outlets an algorithm decided I should marinate in. I was consuming more and orienting worse.
The professional version of me knows better. In compliance you never accept one source on anything that matters. You corroborate. You ask who is reporting, from where, with what incentive. Somewhere along the way I stopped applying my own discipline to my own inputs.
Griffin Brief is that discipline, automated. Sources deliberately pulled from outside the US and English-language bubble. Every story geolocated on a globe, because where the day happened is information the feed hides from you. Six analytical lenses that argue with each other before anything makes the page. Compressed to one visual brief, delivered every morning, finished in minutes.
The goal is not more news. It is sharper orientation.
There was a second reason to build it, and it mattered just as much. A daily product is an unforgiving test. It has to run every morning whether I am paying attention or not: gather, analyze, compress, deliver, no human in the loop. If the agents I build cannot keep a promise that small, I have no business making bigger ones.
So the brief is two things at once. A better morning. And a proof that runs at 06:00 every day.