For the News-Obsessed

Understand what's happening — not just what was reported.

Lefty is an autonomous research agent for news. It reads the feeds, connects events across stories, and briefs you daily on what it actually means — with full citations.

№ 01 — What is Hey Lefty

Sample Lefty news brief

The newsroom that reads for you.

The news cycle is faster than any human can keep up with — and the feeds are optimized for outrage, not understanding. Hey, Lefty is an autonomous agent that quietly works the beats you care about across thousands of sources: wires, primary documents, expert blogs, court filings, official statements. It builds a knowledge graph of the stories you're following so each morning's brief doesn't just tell you what happened — it tells you what it means in the context of everything you've been tracking.

№ 02 — How it works

Brief it once. It reads every day.

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Tell it what you're following

Drop in beats, regions, or themes in plain English. "Track the war in Ukraine." "Watch US-China tech policy." "Follow the AI regulation debate." Lefty starts reading.

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Get your brief, not your feed

Every morning: what happened overnight, what it means, and how it connects to the storylines you've been tracking — fully cited and read in five minutes.

03

Pull a thread or let it run

Ask follow-up questions, dig deeper into a story, or leave it autonomous. Lefty queues its own next questions and shows you what it's chasing.

№ 04 — Why it's trusted

A briefing is only as good as its sources.

Most AI news tools hand you confident summaries and no way to check them. Lefty links every claim to a primary document or report — so you can quote it, cite it, or push back on it, not just hope it's right.

Three separate statements from G7 leaders converge on the same red line this week. [official communiqués]
Underlying data revision changes the read on last month's jobs print. [BLS release, table B-1]

№ 05 — Who it's for

However you follow the news, Lefty does the reading.

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The news-obsessed

Stay deep, not drowned

You read everything and still feel behind. Lefty does the reading and gives you back the pattern — so you go deeper on fewer threads, not wider on more tabs.

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Policy & comms

Walk in already briefed

What moved overnight, who said what, and how it lands. A daily brief that catches the angle before the room does.

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Researchers & journalists

A living dossier on your beat

Track an issue across weeks and months. Lefty maintains a sourced, structured thread you can pull on — instead of grepping through your bookmarks.

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Anyone who quit the feed

Get the news without the algorithm

No infinite scroll, no engagement bait. Just a structured brief on the topics you chose, with links back to primary sources you can verify.

№ 06 — Use cases

What people follow.

Lefty works for any workflow where staying genuinely current on a topic matters — without living inside a news feed.

Stay informed

Follow more beats without drowning in feeds

Track a dozen storylines as closely as you'd track one. Lefty watches the wires, filings, and primary sources daily and surfaces what's actually new — so you skip the noise.

Connect the dots

See how events relate, not just what happened

A protest in one country, a policy change in another, a quiet regulatory shift. Lefty connects events across stories so patterns are obvious instead of buried in your inbox.

Go deep on a topic

Build a real understanding of an ongoing story

Pick an issue — a war, an election, a regulatory fight — and Lefty maintains a living thread that deepens daily, with every claim tied to a primary source.

Brief for your work

Walk into the room already up to speed

Policy, comms, research, journalism. Lefty compiles what's material from the last week — coverage, primary docs, expert takes — into a brief you can read before the meeting starts.

Get your first news brief in minutes.

Describe a topic, region, or beat. Lefty will brief you in minutes with deeply researched, fully cited analysis — and keep reading for you every day after.

Start your first brief →