How it works

Every hour, Crsp reads the public feeds of 60+ trusted news organizations (the full list is on the publishers page). We identify ourselves honestly with our own crawler name, take only what publishers publicly provide, and never scrape around paywalls or blocks. The day’s most newsworthy stories are chosen on source trust, freshness, and topic balance, so your brief reflects what mattered, not what was loudest.

Each summary is then written under a strict grounding rule: every fact, name, and number must come from the article itself. If the article does not name someone, the summary may not either, even when the AI “knows” the answer from its training. Uncertain means vague, never invented.

The part that makes Crsp different: writing and checking are separate. After the AI drafts a summary, independent verification checks confirm the names and numbers in it actually appear in the source article, and review passes grade clarity and completeness. A draft that fails gets corrected; a draft that keeps failing gets discarded. Padding is treated as a defect too, because padding is where fabrication hides: a story that honestly supports only a short summary ships short, never inflated to hit a word count.

A final integrity check runs on every card just before publishing, and every card’s outcome is logged and monitored continuously. When something cannot be summarized safely, it simply does not appear. Better nothing than confidently wrong.

• No scraping beyond public feeds, and no reproducing full articles. Summaries are original text; the reporting belongs to the newsroom, and every card links to it.
• No engagement algorithm. Ranking optimizes for informed-in-minutes, and the feed has an end.

The gates catch fabricated names and numbers; they cannot grade a newsroom’s original reporting, and a sixty-word summary is a map, not the territory. That is why the source link is on every single card: for anything that matters to you, read the journalists who did the work. Crsp’s job is making sure you know the story exists and whether it deserves your click.