How the daily Brief works

The Forum Brief is the platform's primary output: a daily synthesized prose document with verbatim citations, delivered to your /today view at 06:00 in your workspace timezone.

Generation

Generation runs in three stages each morning:

Retrieval. A persona-specific query pulls the top-K passages from FedGrade's federal civilian research library across SAM, EDGAR, GAO, OMB, FedScoop, the Federal Register, and connector-ingested industry sources.
Re-rank. A reranker (Cohere Rerank, model rerank-english-v3.0) collapses ~50 candidate passages down to ~12 highest-relevance picks.
Synthesis. Claude Sonnet 4.6 composes 4–8 paragraphs of grounded prose. Each claim is paired with a verbatim substring from a passage the synthesizer was shown.

A two-strike citation-validator pass then confirms every claim is recoverable from the cited substring before the Brief ships. Claims that fail validation are dropped and surfaced in the validation_failed_claims array; the rest are marked validated.

Arrival window

The Brief targets 06:00 local. Worst-case delivery SLO is 08:00 local — a breach past that is recorded on the SLO dashboard and reaches the team by email. (Automated paging is a roadmap item; we do not have a paging integration today.) You can re-trigger generation with the variant dropdown on /today at any time; ad-hoc regenerations count against Free-tier query limits.

What's in it

A typical Brief contains:

4–8 paragraphs of prose, each grounded in 2–4 sources
A confidence chip per paragraph (validated, partial, insufficient)
A "Report inaccuracy" button on every paragraph
An "Export" button for PDF (Free) or DOCX (Pro+)
A "Share link" button for read-only links (Pro+)

What's not in it

The Brief is not a feed of headlines. It does not link out to news articles without grounding the claim. It does not produce summaries when the underlying sources are empty — if the retrieval stage returns fewer than three viable passages on a topic, the topic is dropped rather than padded.

Personalization

The Brief is personalized by your active persona (see Personas explained). Government-tier workspaces with the agency-pivot active additionally constrain retrieval to the active agency.