v1.0 is now available Open Source

Your personal briefing officer.

Self-hosted AI assistant that summarises your news, podcasts, YouTube, and books directly to Telegram. Save 90 minutes a day and stay informed without the doomscrolling.

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The Future of AI Agents by TechChannel

Key Insight: AI models are moving from passive chat interfaces to active orchestrators that can independently execute multi-step workflows.

• The agentic layer acts as a bridge between LLMs and APIs.
• Reliability jumps from 40% to 90% when using iterative prompting loops.
• Context windows are important, but memory management is critical.

One place for everything.

bref monitors your sources 24/7. When something new appears, it summarises the content, stripped of all the noise, so you can stay informed without the information overload.

News

bref compiles a concise and structured summary of the exact news you want, on your schedule.

YouTube

Receive summaries of your favourite YouTube videos when they are posted. Or summarise on the go simply by pasting the URL.

Podcasts

bref provides summaries of your favourite podcasts as they drop.

Books

Have summaries of books on your reading list sent to you on your schedule. Or, if you want to learn a new topic, simply tell bref your desired topic and it will summarise the top two books for you.

Courses

bref builds and delivers courses on any topic that you like so you can keep on top of personal development.

Notifier

Get notifications of when a podcast, YouTube video, course or favourite news source you actually want to consume is posted.

Proactive, not reactive.

bref runs on your own desktop or VPS, meaning you own the data and control the schedule. No subscriptions, no algorithmic feeds.

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Configure your sources

Set up your news categories, YouTube channels, podcast RSS feeds, and your reading list inside your straightforward SQLite configuration.

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bref monitors

Behind the scenes, bref actively tracks all of your information sources for new content.

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Summaries when you are ready

Using Google, OpenAI or Anthropic AI models, detailed and actionable summaries are produced to give you the key insights without the headache.

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Delivered to Telegram

Fully formatted and easy to digest message lands in your Telegram exactly when you need it. No new apps to install. No doomscrolling.

Take back your attention.

Setup takes less than 10 minutes. Install bref today, configure your sources, and let your personal briefing officer handle the noise.

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