Trusted News Without the Noise

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Less noise.

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You choose the sources you trust and the topics that matter to you. Our AI engine delivers a clean feed — no ads, no manipulation, no agenda other than yours.

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★ Mark Bregman
Growth versus Progress
Article argues that GDP metrics fail to capture true societal progress, highlighting how governments measure easy-to-defend metrics over those that matter to citizens.
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☆ Engadget
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: The stealth upgrade
The S26 Ultra features subtle upgrades, including a new privacy display, improved camera lenses, and a return to an aluminium frame.
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☆ Slashdot
How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla Improve Firefox's Security
Anthropic's AI model significantly improved Firefox's security by finding over 100 bugs, including high-severity ones, in a short period.
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☆ Herald NZ
Weather: Heavy rain watch for Fiordland and Southland as tropical low develops
MetService issues heavy rain watches for Fiordland and Southland. A developing tropical low north of NZ is being monitored for next week.
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How It Works

Three steps to a cleaner feed

Setting up Perceptive takes minutes. What you get back is hours — the ones you would have spent wading through noise.

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Define Your Interests
Tell us what genuinely matters to you — "Climate Change", "Prediction Markets", "New Zealand Politics". Be as broad or as specific as you like. You can refine at any time.
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Choose Your Sources
Select from a curated catalogue of respected publications — from local outlets like Stuff to international voices like The Guardian, The Economist, or the Harvard Business Review. Only sources you trust, ever.
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Read Your Way
Your AI-powered feed surfaces only the stories that match your interests. Read in the web app, get daily or weekly email digests, or subscribe with your favourite RSS reader — your news, delivered however you prefer.

Features

More than a feed reader. A personal newsroom.

Perceptive doesn't just collect articles — it understands what matters to you and surfaces the stories worth your time.

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Smart scoring

Every article is scored against your personal interests using AI — so the stories that matter most rise to the top.

  • Three-tier interests — tell us what you're extremely, very, or somewhat interested in. Every article gets a relevance score from 1 to 998.
  • Hot and cold rules — create rules to always surface or always suppress specific topics.
  • Geographic bonus — boost articles that mention your local area.
  • Visual scoring — colour-coded labels on every article show you why it scored the way it did.
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Any source

Not every publication has an RSS feed. We handle that.

  • Smart discovery — paste any URL and the wizard detects RSS feeds automatically.
  • AI-powered scraping — no feed? The AI analyses the page and generates a custom scraper, even for JavaScript-heavy sites.
  • Categories — organise your sources into groups and filter your reading by mood.
  • Hot feeds — mark an entire source as high-priority so you never miss a post.
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Read your way

Your news, delivered however you prefer.

  • Web reader — a clean, scored feed with search, filtering, starring, and bulk mark-as-read.
  • Email digests — daily, weekly, or monthly digests filtered by category and minimum score, delivered in your timezone.
  • Personal RSS feed — generate a private, pre-scored feed URL for use in any RSS reader app.
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Know yourself

Understand what you actually read, not just what you think you read.

  • Topic engagement reports — see which topics you click on versus which you scroll past.
  • Time-range views — review your reading patterns over 24 hours, a week, or a month.
  • Refine your interests — use the data to tune your scoring and get better results over time.

What Makes Us Different

Not social media. Something better.

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You control the algorithm

Social media platforms feed you content based on what their algorithms predict will keep you engaged — a mixture of your inferred interests and whatever they can get away with advertising to you. On Perceptive, the algorithm is yours. It reflects what you told us, nothing more. No hidden incentive, no manipulation.

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We will never sell your data

Our business model is a small subscription fee — full stop. We have no commercial reason to touch your data. You will never see advertising on Perceptive, and we will never "enshittify" this product. That's not just a promise; it's our entire economic logic.

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We support news sources

We act as an aggregator, not a content thief. We won't reproduce articles — just a brief summary and a link. When you want the full story, you click through to the source, and hopefully their subscription. Reliable journalism deserves to survive. We want to help make that happen.

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Distraction-free by design

No recommendations designed to pull you down a rabbit hole. No outrage-bait to keep you scrolling. No sponsored content blurring the line between news and marketing. Just the stories you asked for, cleanly presented, with nothing competing for your attention.

"We promise we will never enshittify Perceptive.News."

Our Commitments

Some of the sources you can trust

The Guardian Hacker News The Conversation Harvard Business Review The New York Times ABC NPR RNZ Ars Technica Science Daily ... hundreds more ... ... Add Your Own ...

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