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Search source documents or ask an evidence-grounded question.

Plans & pricing

Today is free. Memory is the product.

Read the current edition, the current reading of every dossier, the public forecast board and the public data feeds without an account. Professional adds the record behind them.

Founding accessBy invitation
Founding access: request an invitation; billing opens when the trial is ready. Creating an account starts no clock and creates no charge.

Membership

Two ways to read, one planned price.

All prices in US dollars (USD). Any applicable VAT, GST or sales tax is shown at checkout, once billing opens.

Free
$0

Today, in full, with no account. The Snapshot page and longer public editions and dossiers carry one labelled advertisement.

  • AvailableThe current edition, all signals, five times a day on Beijing time
  • AvailableThe current reading of every standing dossier, with its citations
  • AvailableThe public forecast board and the full track record
  • AvailablePublic data feeds as JSON and Markdown, and agent discovery at /llms.txt
ProfessionalPlanned price
$49 / month

Founding access by invitation; billing opens when the trial is ready.

Memory: the record behind today, for one practitioner who needs to look back, search and cite.

  • AvailablePast editions, every slot, back to the start of the archive
  • AvailableDossier revision history and the evidence record behind each claim
  • AvailableArchive search, and the Regions and Institutions views
  • AvailableEvidence-grounded Ask, 300 questions a month, and current exports
  • AvailableAPI and MCP access, 5,000 requests a month and two API keys
  • AvailableHard monthly caps, no overages, no advertising
Teams
Interview-led

No team plan is currently offered.

We will design shared workflows only after three organizations independently ask for them. Tell us what your team would need and we will reply on working days.

The workflow

Professional is a working surface, not a bigger newsletter.

01

Read

Start with today: what changed, the source on every line, and what would change the read.

02

Look back

Open past editions and dossier revisions to see how a line moved and when.

03

Ask

Put a question to the archive and get an answer with a citation on every claim.

04

Deliver

Bring the result into your own work through exports, API and MCP, without surprise overages.

The line

Today is free. Memory is the product.

Free

Today is free in full: the current edition, the current reading of every dossier, the public forecast board, and the public data feeds.

Professional

Memory is the product: past editions, dossier revisions, the evidence record, archive search, Ask, exports and API are Professional.

Questions

Simple terms, before billing opens.

When the trial is ready. Founding access is by invitation until then. Creating an account today starts no clock and creates no charge, and we will tell founding members the trial terms before anything is billed.

It is the planned Professional price, shown so you can decide whether the desk is worth it. Founding members will be told the price and the terms before billing starts.

No. Monthly allowances are hard caps. There is no automatic usage overage billing.

The request stops and returns a limit response stating that the monthly allowance is reached and that no overage was charged. Nothing is billed and nothing is queued; the allowance resets at the start of the calendar month. Only Ask and API/MCP requests are metered; reading the briefing and the archive is not.

Yes. Subscription management and cancellation will live in the account page once payment is enabled.

Individual citations prove the work. The full monitored-source registry and collection architecture remain private product infrastructure.

Founding access

Read today first. Ask for an invitation when the desk fits.