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Ten newsletters covering the same story become one paragraph. Scottie reads your Substacks, YouTube channels, podcasts, Reddit, and local news overnight, strips the duplicates, and emails you one brief every morning. Every claim linked.
14 days free. Then $15/mo at the founding rate—normally $30
Illustrative example · Scottie
Good morning, Mike.
Scottie read 12 sources overnight. 47 items,
mostly reruns. Here’s the part worth your coffee.
The rundown
- Subscription multiples are compressing, and your two sharpest reads spent the week disagreeing about what that means for products under $20. Your Thursday pitch cares.
- Monday’s model launch got quietly repriced—API costs down 40% overnight. That’s a different margin slide.
- Square Roots Fest takes over Lincoln Square this weekend, and there’s a free symphony at Pritzker Thursday night.
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02 · Your raise
The same story, two useful disagreements.
Rare event: Lenny’s Newsletter and The Diff covered the same story and landed in different places. Lenny thinks the compression rewards cheap products people open every day. Byrne is not buying it: multiples track gross margin, not sticker price.
Stratechery settled it Tuesday without meaning to: whoever owns the first five minutes of someone’s morning owns the subscriber. You could do worse than quoting that line on Thursday.
Lenny’s Newsletter · The Diff · Stratechery03 · You read this Monday—here is the new part
One changed fact, not another rerun.
TechCrunch, The Rundown, and four more feeds reran the model launch overnight. You already read it, so Scottie skipped the repeats. The one new fact: API pricing fell 40%. That is not news-cycle noise. That is your unit economics.
TechCrunch · The Rundown · four related sources04 · Worth your ears
Two points buried in six hours of listening.
Lenny’s Podcast: involuntary churn quietly eats subscription revenue, and dunning fixes recover much of it. That is a line item for Thursday’s deck.
Acquired on Costco: paid commitment changes behavior. Members show up to make the fee worth it—the useful frame behind your daily-open number.
05 · Chicago · This week
Two events worth leaving the desk for.
Square Roots Fest runs Friday through Sunday in Lincoln Square. For something quieter, Thursday’s free Grant Park Music Festival program starts at Pritzker Pavilion after the lawn opens at five.
One transit note: weekend Brown Line track work north of Belmont means extra time to Lincoln Square—or a bike.
Block Club Chicago · Chicago Reader · WBEZKey takeaways—for you
- Open Thursday with the daily-open rate.
- Re-cut the margin slide with the new API pricing.
- Pritzker lawn Thursday at five. The concert is free.
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How it works
Sixty seconds of setup. Then it’s just mornings.
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Every Substack, feed, and subreddit you follow—plus your YouTube channels through full transcripts and your city’s local news. When ten sources cover the same story, you get one paragraph, with every original link if you want to go deeper.
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Delivered by email at the time you choose—no feed to open. A rundown up top, the full story below, and takeaways built around what you’re actually working on.
Sources
Everything you already follow.
Wherever your reading already lives, Scottie meets it there—and folds it into one brief before your coffee’s cool.
Who it’s for
Built for people who can’t afford to miss things.
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Good questions
Questions, answered.
Is this just another news aggregator?
No. Aggregators hand you more links to triage—that’s the problem, not the fix. Scottie reads your sources and writes one brief, with every claim linked so you can go deeper when you want to. You read one thing, not forty.
Do you connect to my email?
Never—not to read it. Your brief arrives like any newsletter, and Scottie never asks for access to your personal account. Use your private @scottie.fyi address for newsletter subscriptions so issues feed the brief instead of cluttering your inbox.
What can Scottie follow?
Substacks, RSS feeds and blogs, subreddits, YouTube channels, your city’s local news and events, and any newsletter sent to your Scottie address. If you read it or watch it, it can feed your brief.
Will I miss something important?
The brief prioritizes—that’s the job—but nothing Scottie reads gets thrown away. Every item remains linked from the web brief, grouped by topic and ordered by relevance.
How is this worth $15 a month?
Scottie replaces the daily work of opening, comparing, and deduplicating dozens of sources. The founding rate is $15/month—50% off the planned $30 standard price.
Can I connect my YouTube account?
Not yet. Add channel links or handles, or choose from Scottie’s recommendations.
Can I inspect what was left out?
Yes. Every new brief links to everything Scottie evaluated, grouped by topic with original source links.
What happens when there is little to read?
Scottie stays concise. It does not inflate a quiet day into a long email.
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