What is LEAN?

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Low Engagement AI News

LEAN stands for Low Engagement AI News. It is a daily morning email digest that aggregates articles from professional news sources, summarizes them using AI, and delivers them in calm, neutral language — stripped of sensationalism, urgency bait, and emotional provocation.

The goal is simple: stay informed without getting pulled in.

How It Works

Each edition is built automatically by an AI pipeline:

  1. Articles are pulled from curated RSS feeds produced by professional journalists
  2. Duplicate and low-significance stories are filtered out
  3. Each remaining article is summarized and rewritten in calm, neutral language
  4. The digest is assembled and delivered by email every morning

The output follows strict editorial rules: no ALL CAPS, no exclamation marks, no sensational framing. The writing is designed to inform, not to provoke.

What You Receive

Each edition opens and closes with a short mantra — an invitation to read with a calm eye, and when finished, to close the digest and move on with your day.

Between the mantras: a fixed set of summaries. No infinite feed. No autoplay. No recommended rabbit holes. When you reach the end, there is nothing left to read.

This is intentional. LEAN is modelled on the experience of reading a print newspaper: one edition, a defined amount of information, then done.

What LEAN Is Not

LEAN is not a replacement for real journalism. The reporting is entirely human — produced by professional journalists at established outlets. The AI only reshapes the delivery: summarizing, filtering, and recalibrating the tone.

LEAN is also not neutral in a perfect sense. Bias can enter through source selection, model behavior, and summarization constraints. The reader should approach it critically, as they would any curated feed. The project philosophy page explains this in more detail.

Who It Is For

LEAN is for anyone who wants to follow the news without paying for it with their attention, anxiety, or time. It is for people who have noticed that being informed and being agitated are not the same thing — and who would rather have the first without the second.

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