Briefing Service

Hourly, ranked, structured news briefings for AI agents and small displays. Pay per request with x402, or take a license key.

The same page, on the reader it was built for. Every screen below is served by the API.

7 briefings, re-picked hourly AI, Frontier Labs, Markets, US Sports, European Football, US News, World News. An LLM editor ranks ~100 sources and writes summaries, why-it-matters and key points.

JSON or rendered pages Structured JSON for agents, plus 480×800 1-bit PNG/BMP pages laid out for e-ink and other tiny displays.

MCP built in Connect any MCP client to https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp: list briefings, get one, get a page image, and (early access) render a briefing from your own feeds.

Morning Paper

Every briefing is also typeset as a multi-page PDF for reading e-paper: front page plus one page per story with the full detail, why it matters and key points, sized for reMarkable and Kindle Scribe (1404×1872). Free to download: https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai/paper.pdf (also finance, sports, soccer, us, world, labs).

Get it on your reMarkable or Kindle every morning

Paste the one-time code from my.remarkable.com and the paper of your choice lands in a "Morning Paper" folder on your tablet at 7:00 ET every day. Free for the first 10 subscribers; after that a Reader key ($9/month) covers delivery and the full API. Sign up at /paper. Kindle delivery is available at /paper too: approve the sender paper@wholemind.tech at amazon.com/sendtokindle, enter your @kindle.com address, and the paper arrives by email at 7:00 ET (today's right away). Add a personal sheet in front of the paper: date, weather, today's calendar, a checklist and ruled notes (preview). Reader key holders can replace the stock briefing with a paper ranked from their own feeds.

For teams

A daily briefing over your own sources (release notes, competitors, status pages), delivered to Slack, email, e-ink or MCP: Team Briefing, $49/month per team, with a real sample rendered from public feeds.

Works with

Any dashboard that can show an image from a URL can show a briefing. No key, updates hourly.

Dashboard	Setup
TRMNL	"News Briefing" recipe (in review). Until it is listed: Image plugin with https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai/pages/0.png?size=wide (800×480).
Tesserae (reTerminal, Inky Impression, Xteink X4)	"News Briefing" widget in the Tesserae catalog (Settings → Widgets → Browse), or the Webpage widget with the image URL. Portrait cells: …/pages/0.png, landscape: …/pages/0.png?size=wide.
HomePlate (Inkplate)	Point the image URL at https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai/pages/0.png; HomePlate's Width/Height headers pick the size.
InkyPi	Third-party plugin: inkypi plugin install news_briefing https://github.com/jshelley/inkypi-news-briefing (picks portrait or landscape from the panel; listed on InkyPi's 3rd-Party Plugins wiki). Or the Image URL plugin with the same URL.
Inkycal	Image module with the same URL.
Kindle / Kobo (calibre)	calibre "Fetch news" recipe (submitted upstream); until then, Send-to-Kindle delivery at /paper.
Any RSS reader (Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire)	Subscribe to https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai/feed.xml (Atom, one entry per ranked story, updates hourly). Swap ai for any key.
Anything else	Send Width and Height request headers (like TRMNL and HomePlate do) and the closest size is returned. Keys: ai, labs, finance, sports, soccer, us, world.

Listed on: the official MCP registry · Glama (ownership verified) · mcpservers.org · awesome-remote-mcp-servers · awesome-kindle · the Tesserae widget catalog · the InkyPi plugins wiki. Installable MCP package: github.com/jshelley/briefing-mcp.

Try it

curl https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings              # free: the list and prices
curl -i https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai        # free trial: 25 requests/day per IP, then 402 with x402 payment requirements
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <license key>" https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai

Agent-readable docs: llms.txt · openapi.json

Prices

What	x402 (per request, USDC on Base)	License
One briefing as JSON	$0.002	Flat monthly key, unlimited reads of all briefings + Morning Paper delivery. Get a key
One rendered story page (the front page is free)	$0.001
One MCP request	$0.005
Render your own feeds + persona	$0.05 per render	10 renders a day included

The briefing list and every front page are always free: point an e-ink dashboard at https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai/pages/0.png (480×800), or add ?size=wide for 800×480. Every IP gets 25 free JSON, page or MCP tool requests a day (the x-trial-remaining header counts down), so you can try the data before paying. No accounts are needed for x402: your agent gets a 402, pays, and retries.

What you get back

{
  "ranked_at": "2026-09-07T23:53:54Z",
  "ranking": {
    "lead":  { "headline": "...", "summary": "...", "detail": "...", "why": "...", "points": ["..."], "link": "...", "source": "The Verge" },
    "items": [ { "headline": "...", "summary": "...", ... } ],
    "research": [ { "headline": "...", "source": "Anthropic", ... } ],
    "kicker": "one-line footer thought"
  }
}

Connect over MCP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "briefings": { "url": "https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <license key>" } }
  }
}

Notes

Briefings summarize and link to their sources; the product is the ranking, the summaries, and the rendering. For a briefing over your own feeds, or bulk terms, email hello@wholemind.tech.