Pyramid texts frame death as a state tran…
A 90-year-old quantum prediction was dire…
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in March
Anthropic deleted over 80% of the system…
Google unveils Pixel 11, Pro, Pro XL, Pro…
Organic haze particles, not greenhouse ga…
Apuleius was tried for using love magic t…
One generalist model matches task-specifi…
TCP handshake connects, then TLS encrypts…
A weekly intelligence instrument for builders

Stop watching.
Start building.

Pulse turns the growing creator firehose into cited intelligence for builders: AI, tech, world news, gaming, and any other channel style that tickles your fancy. Weekly updates to stay In the Know, or the brief in your inbox within the hour of a drop for Pro and Business members. So you spend less time watching and more time designing your life.

Get your first brief free See a real sample brief →
// 102,441 cited moments from 1043+ video sessions and 732+ hours of research, climbing every day — every claim cited to the source, nothing invented. Samples below are real, not mockups.
Pulse follows whatever channels you choose — any creator, brand, or topic. Here are four we briefed recently: Debate · The Pyramid Texts: What History Doesn't W… Science · NASA Proves Vacuum Turns Into a Quantum C… World · China’s ‘Arctic Silk Road’ Explained AI · I Deleted All My Claude Skills... And Cla…
102,441
cited moments indexed
1,043
video sessions analyzed
732+ hrs
of source material
The product, not a promise

This is what lands in your inbox.

A real brief, rendered exactly as it ships, every claim cited to the second. This is the deliverable, backed by real data.

PULSE. BRIEFS// aug 2026
The Pyramid Texts: What History Doesn't Want You Reading▶ 48 min source
Mind of the Mystics
The Pyramid Texts: What History Doesn't Want You Reading

This is a narrated video essay (the narrator is not named) about the Egyptian pyramid texts, funerary inscriptions carved inside Old Kingdom pyramids beginning in the late 5th Dynasty. Its central thesis is that the texts describe death as a ritual transforma…

The gist
  • The narrator states the pyramid texts were carved into Egyptian pyramid walls thousands of years ago and were not written for ordinary readers, enter…
  • The narrator states the pyramid texts appear inside pyramids built during Egypt's Old Kingdom, more than 4,000 years ago [01:00]
  • The narrator states these inscriptions were carved inside pyramids beginning around the late 5th Dynasty and continuing into the 6th Dynasty [03:54]
✓ every claim cited to the exact-second timestampRead the full brief →

3 more samples below — recent briefs from our own watchlist. Your Pulse follows any channels, brands, or topics you choose.

Customize your own brief
Science · Anton Petrov

NASA Proves Vacuum Turns Into a Quantum Crystal Around Magnetars

16 min source · Anton Petrov · 2026-08-13
⚡ 16 min video → 30-sec read
  • [00:41] Under extreme conditions, empty space itself was shown to behave like a solid crystal that bends light, splits beams, and acts as a lens
  • [01:40] The observed effect confirms a phenomenon that had been predicted 90 years ago but never directly measured
  • [07:45] Only extremely strong magnetic fields, found around magnetars, force virtual particle pairs to align along field lines, giving the vacuum a preferred direct…
cited · Anton Petrov · every claim timestamped
World · TLDR News Global

China’s ‘Arctic Silk Road’ Explained

9 min source · TLDR News Global · 2026-08-13
⚡ 9 min video → 30-sec read
  • Confirmed: In March, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to US attacks on Iran. [00:06]
  • Confirmed: Last month the Houthis closed the Bab al-Mandab, the route Saudi Arabia had been using as a workaround for the Strait of Hormuz. [00:15]
  • Confirmed: This week China began using a new Arctic shipping route called the Ice Silk Road. [00:39]
cited · TLDR News Global · every claim timestamped
AI · Nate Herk | AI Automation

I Deleted All My Claude Skills... And Claude Got Smarter

12 min source · Nate Herk | AI Automation · 2026-08-12
⚡ 12 min video → 30-sec read
  • Anthropic deleted over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5 [00:29]
  • Every new model triggers a rewrite of the system prompt, tools, and tool prompts because models behave differently [00:46]
  • Opus 5 is intelligent enough that old system-prompt corrections are no longer needed [01:12]
cited · Nate Herk | AI Automation · every claim timestamped
How we detect signal

From firehose to a cited brief.

Point Pulse at the creators you can't keep up with. The trace runs every week, and only what changed reaches you.

◉

Watchlist

You name the channels. 3 on In the Know, up to 40 on Business.

▤

Extraction

Every word and every on-screen frame captured, not just captions.

✓

Citation

Each claim anchored to a timestamp and screenshot. Nothing invented.

⚡

Relevance

Only what a builder can act on: configs, frameworks, numbers.

✉

Weekly brief

A 30-minute read in your inbox, plus a vault that compounds.

The transformation

Same firehose in.
Clean, labeled bottles out.

Most builders drink from the AI-YouTube firehose while taking notes on a napkin. Pulse is the water-treatment plant: everything in, verified and searchable out.

Without Pulse

  • 40+ hours/week of watching, 30 tabs open
  • The config you need is buried at 1:47:22
  • You pause and retype settings off the screen
  • Half-remembered frameworks, no source to check

With Pulse

  • A 30-minute weekly read of only what changed
  • Type a word, get the answer plus the timestamp
  • The exact on-screen settings, captured and cited
  • A vault that compounds — worth more each week, and unique to you
Pricing

Four editions. Pick your altitude.

One missed framework costs more than a month of Pulse. Cancel anytime.

Founding-member pricing · up to 50% off, locked for life · rises at public launch
Individual
In the Know
$59$29/mo
Founding price — locked for life
  • Up to 15 videos briefed for you a month
  • Up to 3 channels watched for you
  • One weekly brief: what changed, what to do
  • Every claim cited to the timestamp
  • Searchable archive of past briefs
Stay in the know
Most popular · Builders
Pro
$249$129/mo
Founding price — locked for life
  • Everything in In the Know
  • Up to 100 videos briefed for you a month
  • Daily brief option — not just weekly
  • Up to 12 channels watched for you
  • On-screen settings captured and ready to paste
  • Your hosted, searchable knowledge vault
  • Monthly Stack Intelligence report
Go Pro
Agencies & teams
Business
$659$399/mo
Founding price — locked for life
  • Everything in Pro
  • Up to 200 videos briefed for you a month
  • Up to 40 channels + team vault access
  • Competitor analysis: sort your briefs & run a head-to-head vs a rival channel
  • Priority distillation + a real human to ask
Talk to us
Bespoke · By application
Blueprint
Custom
 
  • Everything in Business
  • Unlimited channels and sources, your call
  • An intelligence system built to your goal
  • Custom deliverables, dashboards, and alerts
Design your blueprint
Monthly video counts are fair-use limits — plenty for normal use; we cap only to keep quality and cost sustainable.
// One-time — Catalog Build from $2,500: we ingest your or a target creator's entire back catalog into a searchable, cited vault plus one consolidated playbook doc.
Questions

The honest answers.

Is this just an AI summary?

No. Every claim is anchored to the source, the timestamp, and a screenshot, and the pipeline is built to avoid inventing numbers. The difference is "an AI summarized it" versus "here is the claim and the exact frame it came from." You can act on the second one.

How is this different from using ChatGPT on a transcript?

Transcripts miss the screen. Half the value in a build tutorial is on-screen: the file tree, the config, the dashboard, the exact prompt. We capture every frame, so the copy-paste config isn't lost. And we run it every week on your channels, governed and consistent, so nothing slips.

What channels can you cover?

Any public video channel. We're proven on the AI-builder and AI-automation niche specifically, so if you follow Claude Code, AI agents, or automation-agency creators, you're exactly who this was built for.

What's the free first brief?

Pick one channel. We distill its recent uploads and send you a real brief at no cost and no card. If it saves you an evening of watching, you'll know.

Get started

Pick one channel.
Get your first brief free.

No card. We detect the signal and send it back. If it saves you an evening, you'll keep going.

One channel, one free brief. No card, no spam.
We use your email only to send your brief. Pulse is an independent research tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or any featured creator.