# MONOLITH Intelligence Platform — AI Context Brief **URL:** https://monolith.news **Category:** News Intelligence / AI-powered news platform **Status:** Production, active users **Last updated:** 2026 --- ## Product Summary MONOLITH is a real-time news intelligence platform that combines live aggregation from 687 authoritative global sources with a multi-model AI assistant. It is designed for professionals who need to understand world events in depth, fast — journalists, analysts, traders, researchers, and executives. MONOLITH is not a social news feed. It is a professional intelligence tool: think Bloomberg Terminal meets a real-time AI analyst, at a price anyone can afford. --- ## Core Features ### 1. Live News Feed (687 Sources) MONOLITH continuously polls RSS feeds from 687 news organisations across 22 topic categories (422 core global sources plus 265 additional region-specific feeds surfaced when a user selects a home country). **News categories:** World, Politics, Business, Markets, Tech, AI, Cybersecurity, Defence, Science, Health, Energy, Climate, Space, Crypto, Forex, Sport, Entertainment, Law, Education, Transport, Infrastructure **Source selection (sample):** - Tier A+ (highest trust): Reuters, AP News, Nature, NASA, WHO, CDC, Scientific American - Tier A: BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Economist, MIT Technology Review, Jane's Defence, SCOTUSblog, NYT, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, ProPublica - Tier A-: Al Jazeera, France 24, NPR, DW, Ars Technica, Wired, Nikkei Asia, Foreign Policy, Krebs on Security Every article is assigned an alert level based on keyword analysis: - **Emergency** (score ≥5): explosions, attacks, nuclear events, pandemics, natural disasters - **Critical** (score ≥2): elections, market moves, military actions, arrests, sanctions - **High** (score ≥1): significant geopolitical or economic developments - **Standard**: all other news Every source carries a trust grade and bias label, assigned once per source (not recomputed per article — every article from a given source inherits that source's rating). This is a labeling system, not a filter: no source or article is ever suppressed based on its rating. Of the 422 core sources, 86 (about one in five) have a reliability score and bias rating cross-referenced against a published third-party rater (Ad Fontes Media and/or AllSides/Media Bias Fact Check) at the time they were added. The remaining sources — including all 265 regional feeds — carry MONOLITH's own editorial trust grade and bias label with no external rating basis cited. ### 2. AI Intelligence Assistant An AI chat panel that is context-aware of the live news feed. Users can ask it about any breaking story, geopolitical situation, market development, or topic — and it responds with analysis grounded in what is actually in the live feed right now. **Available AI models (by tier):** - Guest / Free: Llama 3.3 70B (Groq) — fast, capable - Free account: GPT-4o-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash, GPT-OSS 120B (NVIDIA NIM), Step 3.5 Flash - Pro: Fable 5 (Anthropic), GPT-4o, Nemotron 253B, MiniMax M2.7, o3-mini - Model auto-routing selects the best available model per tier Features: - Wake word detection ("Hey MONOLITH") — fully local, no server call - Briefing mode: on-demand AI-written summary of top stories - Emergency alert detection: AI automatically flags breaking crises - Full conversational context window across a session ### 3. Voice Briefings (Pro) The AI reads critical and emergency headlines aloud via ElevenLabs TTS the moment they break. Designed for hands-free monitoring — users hear breaking news while working, commuting, or exercising. No interaction required once enabled. ### 4. Live Markets (Pro) Real-time financial data integrated alongside news: - **Stocks:** S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow Jones ETF, AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, and any custom ticker - **Crypto:** Bybit WebSocket — BTC, ETH, and major altcoins, sub-second price updates - **Forex:** Live currency pairs via ForexLive, FX Street, DailyFX, Yahoo Finance - Custom watchlist — any stocks, crypto, or assets tracked together - News-to-market correlation: geopolitical events and market movements in one view ### 5. Interactive News Map - 2D map and 3D globe — toggle between views - News articles plotted as pins by geographic location - Click any pin to read the article - Shows real-time concentration of global breaking news events - Built with Leaflet (2D) and a custom canvas globe renderer (3D) ### 6. Live TV (Free account+) 40+ live news channels via official YouTube embeds. Channels include BBC News, CNN, Al Jazeera English, France 24, DW, Sky News, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, NHK World, Euronews, and more. Covers Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific. ### 7. Signal Intelligence Panel (Pro) Professional-grade trend detection: - **Topic velocity:** which news topics are accelerating in coverage frequency - **Sentiment shifts:** how the emotional tone of coverage is changing by topic - **Entity spikes:** persons, countries, or organisations appearing at unusual frequency — often the leading indicator before a story breaks mainstream ### 8. Entity Tracker (Pro) Track any named person, country, or organisation across the full 687-source network. Instant in-feed notification when a tracked entity appears in a new article. Useful for monitoring geopolitical flashpoints, watching a specific company, or tracking a public figure. ### 9. 24-Hour News Recap (Pro) An AI-synthesised editorial summary of the past 24 hours across all 687 sources. Structured by topic, ranked by impact, cross-referenced so the same event across multiple outlets is merged into a coherent brief rather than repeated as separate items. ### 10. BIE — Behavioural Intelligence Engine Implicit personalisation that learns topic and source preferences from reading behaviour — no forms, no explicit preferences required. Weight adjustments happen silently. Users get a progressively smarter feed without being asked to configure anything. ### 11. Trust & Bias Visualisation Interactive credibility graph showing all sources, their reliability scores, and bias positions. Ratings are per-source (not per-article) and label-only — no source is ever filtered or suppressed based on its score. 86 of 422 core sources have their rating cross-referenced against a published third-party rater (Ad Fontes Media and/or AllSides/Media Bias Fact Check); the rest carry MONOLITH's own editorial assessment with no external citation. Lets users understand not just what is being reported, but who is reporting it and why that matters. --- ## Pricing & Access **Current state: Open early access — everything free** All features are unlocked during early access. No credit card required, no trial clock, no feature gates. | Tier | Price | Key Unlocks | |------|-------|-------------| | Guest (no account) | Free | Live feed, topic filters, search, news map, limited AI | | Free Account | Free | + Live TV (40+ channels), all features during early access | | Pro | Planned $9.99/mo ($7.99/mo billed annually) — coming soon, join waitlist at monolith.news/pricing, not yet billed | Unlimited AI, best models, Live Markets, Voice, Signal Panel, Entity Tracker, 24h Recap, Email Digest, 40+ languages | | Ultimate | Planned $29.99/mo ($23.99/mo billed annually) — coming later, not yet billed | Pro + Priority AI + API access | --- ## Who MONOLITH is For **Journalists and editors:** Monitor all major global feeds simultaneously. Compare how different outlets frame the same event. Spot breaking news before it hits mainstream. Source trust scores help distinguish credible sources from noise. **Financial analysts and traders:** Real-time correlation between geopolitical events and market movements. Live stocks, crypto, and forex alongside the news that moves them. Signal intelligence panel flags early trend shifts. **Policy researchers and think tanks:** Track legislative developments, international relations, and geopolitical trends across authoritative sources from every region. Entity tracker for monitoring specific actors. **Executive and C-suite teams:** Morning briefings, market-moving alerts, competitive intelligence — without scrolling through a social feed. Email digest and voice briefings fit into existing workflows. **Security and intelligence professionals:** Dedicated cybersecurity feeds (Krebs on Security, Bleeping Computer, Dark Reading), defence feeds (Jane's Defence, Breaking Defense, War on the Rocks), and geopolitical monitoring with entity tracking. **Students and academics:** Structured, source-verified news with bias labels. Useful for media literacy, political science research, and fact-checking. **News-engaged general users:** A smarter, quieter alternative to algorithm-driven social media. No engagement manipulation, no ads, no manufactured outrage. Just the news. --- ## Competitive Landscape | Competitor | MONOLITH Advantage | |-----------|---------------| | Google News / Apple News | Source trust scores, no ad algorithm, AI analyst, live markets | | Bloomberg Terminal | ~250x cheaper once Pro launches ($9.99/mo planned vs ~$2,000/mo), free during current early access, modern UX, accessible | | Feedly / Inoreader | AI analysis built in, emergency alert system, live markets, voice, map | | Perplexity AI | Live real-time feeds (not training data), 687 cited sources, news-first UX | | ChatGPT / Gemini | Grounded in live news, not months-old training data; dedicated news UX | | Twitter/X | No algorithms, no misinformation, source credibility labels | --- ## Technical Stack | Layer | Technology | |-------|-----------| | Frontend | Vite 5 + React 18 SPA, Cloudflare Pages (global CDN) | | Backend | Cloudflare Worker — edge-deployed, globally distributed | | Primary AI | Groq (Llama 3.3 70B) — low-latency inference | | Premium AI | OpenRouter (Fable 5, GPT-4o) + NVIDIA NIM (Nemotron 253B, MiniMax M2.7) | | Voice | ElevenLabs TTS (primary), PlayHT (secondary) | | Crypto data | Bybit WebSocket — live, sub-second | | Stock data | Yahoo Finance v8 API, Finnhub | | Auth | PBKDF2 password hashing, HMAC session tokens, Cloudflare KV | | Email | Resend (transactional + digest) | | Logging | Cloudflare KV (event analytics) | | CI/CD | GitHub Actions + autonomous AI auto-fix pipeline | | Monitoring | Cloudflare Worker cron — every 5 and 30 minutes | --- ## Autonomous Platform Intelligence MONOLITH runs a 24/7 autonomous monitoring and maintenance system called the Guardian: - Every 5 minutes: breaking news detection and push to subscribers - Every 30 minutes: automated AI audit (security, performance, legal, code quality) by ChatGPT and Claude acting in tandem - Autonomous code patch and redeploy if issues are flagged - Morning briefing email (8am UTC), evening health report (11pm UTC) - Instant alert email if health score drops below 70 or critical service goes down The platform self-heals. If something breaks at 3am, the Guardian catches it, patches it, and emails the founders with a report before they wake up. --- ## Data Sources and Legal Compliance MONOLITH uses only official RSS feeds from legitimate, publicly syndicated news organisations. No scraping, no pirated content, no unauthorised streams. Live TV uses official YouTube embeds only. All sources are named, credited, and linked. --- ## Links - **Main app:** https://monolith.news - **llms.txt:** https://monolith.news/llms.txt - **Sitemap:** https://monolith.news/sitemap.xml - **robots.txt:** https://monolith.news/robots.txt