How an edition is made, and how we check it

Pulse is written by an AI model. That is exactly why every claim carries its source, every reading is labelled as ours, and every forecast is scored in public.

1. Collection

For each edition we run seven separate searches: economy and finance, crypto, technology and AI, politics and policy, conflicts, disasters and climate, health and science. Each search returns recent articles from news organisations and primary sources (central banks, regulators, statistical agencies). Prices come from CoinGecko cross-checked against Binance; the macro calendar from FRED; the crypto Fear & Greed Index from Alternative.me.

2. Writing and verification

The model writes the edition from that evidence only. Before anything is published, automated gates check that:

• every key event links to a source that exists and was published recently;
• each sourced claim is supported by its source (a semantic check, not just a link check);
• no price appears that was not measured by us at publication time;
• the summary does not contradict the market data. When it does, the edition says so at the top.

An edition that fails a hard gate is not published. A category whose evidence is too thin is dropped rather than padded.

3. Facts and readings

Inside an edition each claim is tagged Fact (attributed, linked) or Reading (our interpretation). Sector calls, the market regime and the Radar are readings. Treat them as hypotheses, not as statements of fact.

4. Sources policy

• We prefer primary documents and established newsrooms; press releases are cited as the issuer's claim.
• Every source is linked as published. We do not reproduce articles; we summarise and link.
• Photographs are illustrative stock images (Unsplash) and are captioned as such. They never depict the reported event.

5. The track record

Radar scenarios name the signal that would confirm them, the one that would disprove them, and a deadline. After the deadline a price check settles what can be settled. Everything else is shown as could not check. We hide the hit rate until at least five scenarios have a real verdict, because a percentage of two outcomes is noise. See the track record.

6. About the AI

Editions are generated by xAI's Grok models with live web search. The model can be wrong, and sources can be wrong. The checks above reduce errors; they do not remove them. If a decision matters to you, read the source.

7. Corrections

Editions are kept as published, so the record stays honest. If we find a factual error we add a correction note to the edition stating what was wrong and when it was fixed. Report an error to hello@getpulsebrief.com with the edition link.

8. Feedback

Tell us what is missing, unclear or wrong: hello@getpulsebrief.com. We read everything.

9. Not financial advice

Pulse is information, not advice. It does not know your circumstances and does not recommend buying or selling any asset. Markets are risky; past readings say nothing certain about the future.

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