About The Flow
The Flow reads 19 AI and machine-learning sources — arXiv categories, first-party lab and university research blogs, and a few independent writers — and turns them into one searchable feed with a machine-written summary on every story.
Who runs it
The Flow is built and maintained by an independent developer. It is one person and a small server, not a media company. Reach them through the contact page; operator details are on the provider information page.
How the summaries are made
Each story's summary and its “why it matters” line are generated by a language model from the publisher's headline and feed description, and nothing else. They are labelled as machine-generated wherever they appear, are not reviewed by a person, and can be wrong. The original is always one click away, and reading it is the point.
What it deliberately does not do
- It does not republish articles: titles, the publisher's own description, our summary and a link — never the body.
- It does not track you across the web. Analytics is self-hosted and cookieless, and there is no tracking pixel in the email.
- It does not paywall reading. A subscription buys automation and cadence, not access — see pricing.
How it is built
A nightly crawler reads the feeds; a local embedding model puts every article into a vector index, which is what makes search by meaning and saved searches that keep working possible; a small open model writes the summaries. It runs on one server and costs a few euros a month to operate.