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How the daily Brief works

The FedGrade Brief is the platform's primary output: a daily synthesized briefing with verbatim citations, shown on your /today view.

When it is generated

Briefs are generated by one scheduled job that runs once a day, starting at 11:18 UTC, for every workspace. There is no per-workspace delivery time and no timezone setting. On Pro and above the Brief is also emailed when it is generated; on Free it is shown in the app only.

Generation

Each persona's Brief is built in three stages:

  1. Retrieval. A persona-specific query pulls candidate passages from FedGrade's federal research library — SAM.gov notices, EDGAR filings, GAO decisions, OMB memos, the Federal Register, FedScoop and other connector-ingested sources — using both semantic (embedding) and keyword matching.
  2. Re-rank. A reranker (Cohere Rerank, model rerank-english-v3.0) orders the candidates, and the top ten passages go forward.
  3. Synthesis. Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 writes the Brief from those passages. Each claim is paired with a verbatim excerpt from a passage the model was shown.

A two-strike citation check then confirms every claim against its cited excerpt. If the first draft fails, the Brief is re-synthesized once. If it still cannot be supported, the Brief is delivered in an honest insufficient evidence state instead of with unsupported claims.

What's in it

  • A headline and synthesized items, each with inline citations you can expand
  • A validation badge for the whole Brief (see How citations and validation work)
  • A Report inaccuracy button below the Brief
  • Free shows the top 3 items; Pro and above show up to 10

Each Brief also has its own page at /brief/<id> — reachable from notifications, your activity feed and Open in Brief on search results — with Export PDF (every tier), Export DOCX (Pro and above) and Share (Pro and above). See Exporting and sharing the Brief.

Previewing another variant

The variant dropdown on /today re-synthesizes the Brief in a different voice on demand. That is an AI generation, so it is available on Pro and above; the Free tier includes no AI generations.

Personalization

The Brief is personalized by your active persona — see Personas explained. Government-tier workspaces with the agency pivot enabled also get the active agency applied as the default filter.

Brief history

Every Brief is kept. Free shows Briefs from the last 30 days; Pro and above show the full history. Upgrading makes the older Briefs visible again.

Last updated 2026-09-21.

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