What Cur8r is, how it's made, and what it does with your data.

Cur8r publishes curated intelligence briefings. Each channel watches a defined set of sources for a defined audience, scores what it finds against explicit editorial criteria, and publishes a concise briefing — written to read, and narrated to listen to.

The premise is that most feeds are optimised to hold your attention. A briefing is optimised to end. You read it, you're caught up, you leave.

A channel is one subject, one audience, one cadence. Sci-Fi Books Weekly covers new and noteworthy science fiction for readers who want the good stuff first, once a week.

Each channel has its own sources and its own scoring criteria, so what clears the bar for one wouldn't necessarily clear it for another.

Yes. Every briefing on the site is free to read and listen to, and there's nothing to buy.

No. There are no accounts, no passwords, and no sign-up. Everything published is on the open site.

Subscribe to it in your podcast app. Every channel is distributed as a podcast, and when a channel is available on a platform its Listen on links appear at the top of the channel page.

Your podcast app then delivers each new briefing automatically — which is the only "subscribe" Cur8r has.

No, and this is deliberate.

Running a mailing list would mean collecting and storing your email address, which would mean an email provider, tracking pixels to make the list worth having, and a privacy policy that describes all of it. We'd rather have the privacy policy we have — one that truthfully says we collect nothing.

Your podcast app already solves the notification problem without handing us your identity.

Yes. Every briefing is a written document first. The audio is a narration of it, not a separate product, so nothing is audio-only.

Yes — each channel's podcast feed is a standard RSS feed, and you're welcome to point any reader at it rather than a podcast app.

Partly, and we'd rather say so plainly than bury it.

Automated systems — including large language models — do the source gathering, the scoring, a first draft, and the speech synthesis. Every briefing then passes an editorial quality gate and is reviewed and approved by a person before it publishes. Nothing reaches the site unread.

The narration voice is synthetic. It is not a person reading.

Each channel has explicit, written criteria describing what its audience is trying to accomplish. Candidate items are scored against those criteria, and only what clears the bar is drafted. A human then cuts further before publication.

The scoring is deliberately about your goals, not your engagement. Nothing is ranked by how likely it is to keep you on the page.

Public ones — publications, feeds, releases, and announcements relevant to the channel's subject. Briefings link to what they discuss, so you can always go read the original. That's the point of including the links.

Tell us at cur8r@emperox.com and we'll correct it. Automated systems make mistakes and so do people; a correction isn't an embarrassment, it's the job.

Treat briefings as journalism and commentary — background for your own thinking. Nothing in a Cur8r briefing is investment, legal, financial, medical, or career advice. Verify anything you plan to act on, and follow the source links.

No. Cur8r sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and uses no advertising pixels, session recording, or fingerprinting. There's no cookie banner because there's nothing to consent to.

We don't build profiles of visitors and we don't follow you across other sites.

From visitors, none. We don't ask you for anything — there's no form on the site.

Our hosting provider records standard server logs (IP address, browser user-agent, URL, timestamp), the way every website does, and those are used to serve the site and spot abuse or outages. The privacy policy lists the complete picture in two table rows, which is all there is.

Your browser saves the choice locally under the key theme. It never leaves your device and it holds nothing but the word "light" or "dark." It's local storage, not a cookie, and clearing your site data removes it.

There is nothing of yours to train on. We hold no personal information about visitors, so none of it goes anywhere — into a model or otherwise.

Sci-Fi Books Weekly is publishing now.

Midwest Startup Scene and Managing AI Products are in production and marked Coming Soon — their pages describe what they'll cover.

When they're good enough to publish, which we'd rather not put a date on and miss. A channel goes live the day its first briefing clears the editorial gate.

The channels page is always current — a channel loses its Coming Soon badge the moment it starts publishing.

Please do. The Discord is the best place for it — that's where sources get suggested and the next briefing gets argued about. Email works too: cur8r@emperox.com.

Yes, and we'd like you to. Quote briefly with attribution and a link, share links freely, forward a briefing to a colleague.

What we ask you not to do: republish a briefing in full, strip the attribution, present the work as your own, or use the Cur8r name or logo to imply we endorse you. The terms have the exact wording.

Not without written permission. Bulk scraping — including for machine-learning training — is specifically excluded by the terms.

Given how the briefings are made, we appreciate the irony. The difference is that we license and link what we build on, and we'd want the same courtesy. If you have a use in mind, ask — the answer isn't automatically no.

Email cur8r@emperox.com and we'll respond promptly.

Cur8r is a property of Emperox LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company.

cur8r@emperox.com for anything — corrections, permissions, privacy requests, accessibility problems, or a channel idea. It's a real inbox and it's the same address for all of it.