How The Nexus works

When you want everything, in order, as it lands.

Every article ingested in the last few days, newest first. Paginated. Filter by category if you want to narrow it.

When you have five minutes and want the whole day in one read.

A daily synthesis of the news across all 230+ news outlets, grouped by theme. Generated once the day’s articles are in. Archive goes back as far as we’ve been publishing.

When you want the standing picture on a subject, not just today’s headlines.

Continuously-updated reference pages on the subjects readers track — ransomware, federal fraud and corruption, cryptocurrency scams, AI policy, and a China Watch tracker. Each pulls cited reporting from across the corpus, refreshed automatically, with a short synthesis up top and the live evidence below. Free.

When you’re tracking PRC-linked activity that affects the US.

13 categories: espionage, fentanyl, tech transfer, political influence, cyber, scams, and more. The Nexus classifies and scores each article, and surfaces counter-evidence separately so you can see the other side. Includes a weekly synthesis and an interactive timeline.

When you want to watch a story develop across sources instead of chasing one headline.

Nexus groups related articles into named threads (export controls, AI chip licensing, sanctions enforcement, etc.). Each storyline shows a volume sparkline across its date range, day-grouped articles with per-day outlet pills, key entities, and the full timeline. Click any day header to anchor-link directly to that beat of the story.

When you care about who’s actively being targeted and by which groups.

Public victim postings from ransomware leak sites. Sourced from ransomware.live and stripped of attacker infrastructure (no onion URLs, no negotiation contact info). Tracks active groups, sectors hit, countries hit.

When you see a viral post and want to know what mainstream sources actually said about it.

Paste any social-media claim. Nexus reads the claim, searches our 230+ news-outlet corpus for coverage that actually addresses it (not just mentions an entity from it), and writes a descriptive summary of what each source said. Inline citations to every source. We do NOT label claims true or false, that's your call. Every check has a permanent shareable URL. Free: 5 per day. Pro: unlimited.

When you want to see what outlets quietly got wrong — and fixed.

The Nexus catches when an outlet corrects itself — an editor’s note, ‘an earlier version of this story’, a wire correction — and surfaces it with the outlet and a link to the story. Deterministic, not a guess: the outlet’s own admission of what it got wrong. No verdict, no spin.

When you’re reading a story and want to see what the record says about its claims and the people in it.

On many articles, an in-line Receipts panel shows what the public record holds on the story’s key claims and entities — court filings, enforcement actions, filings, and prior cited reporting — pulled from the same corpus as the claim checker. Cited, never a verdict. Free readers see it on top stories; Pro checks any article on demand.

When you remember a story and want to find it.

Searches titles and summaries. Free tier covers the last 30 days. Pro extends to the last 90 days. Pro+ opens the full archive back to launch. Use entity chips on any article to jump straight to a search for that entity.

When you want to see what Nexus actually pulls from, and how each outlet covers what.

Index of every source The Nexus monitors: 230+ news outlets (including local TV and major-city dailies in eight metros) plus 48 government data feeds (federal court dockets, SEC filings, GAO oversight, the Federal Register, lobbying disclosures, FEC campaign finance, the US consolidated sanctions list, and more). News outlets are ranked by article volume in the corpus; each has a profile page showing top categories covered, most-mentioned entities (with links to those entities' dossiers), and the most recent articles. Honest about coverage: sources we monitor but haven't surfaced articles for yet show a 'monitoring' label.

When you want to know the moment something on your radar moves.

Add entities (people, places, orgs), keywords, or categories. The matcher runs every 15 minutes against new articles and alerts you when it finds a hit. Free gets 1 watchlist. Pro gets 10 (25 entities each). Pro+ gets 25 (100 entities each), plus a daily morning email that synthesizes everything that hit your watchlists overnight (see Account essentials below).

When you don’t want to keep opening the app to check.

Push notifications for watchlist hits, daily briefing ready, weekly state digest, on-demand briefings, and editor-reviewed breaking news. Pro only. Per-event toggles and quiet hours. Native in the iPhone app (just enable them in your account); on the web, install The Nexus to your home screen from Safari first.

When you run a site, blog, or dashboard and want to surface live Nexus content there.

Free iframe-embeddable widgets you can drop into any page. Currently the Corrections widget (the latest corrections outlets made) is available. No API key, no rate limits, attribution back-link required. Updates every 5 minutes server-side. Copy-paste snippet on the embed page.

Signing in

No password. Enter your email and we send a magic link plus a 6-digit code. Click the link on desktop, or type the 6-digit code if you’re in the iPhone app (or a home-screen PWA) — Apple opens email links in Safari, which won’t carry your session into the app, so the code is the in-app path.

Your first watchlist

Account → Watchlists → New. Add entities (people, places, organizations), keywords, or whole categories. The matcher runs every 15 minutes against new articles and records matches. You’ll see them in your watchlist detail page and, on Pro, get a push notification.

Notifications

Paid plans (Pro or Pro+). Account → Notifications. In the iPhone app, tap Enable notifications and allow the iOS prompt; on the web, enable on each device you want (each phone, tablet, or desktop is separate). Toggle individual events — breaking news, watchlist hits, daily briefing, state digest, on-demand briefings — on or off, and set quiet hours in your timezone (breaking news still comes through). Manage or disable any device from the same screen.

State digests

Paid plans. Account → States. Pick up to 3 US states on Pro, 5 on Pro+. Every Sunday morning at 8am Pacific you'll get a summary of China-linked activity touching each of those states, plus a push if notifications are on.

On-demand briefings

Paid plans. Account → Briefings → New. Type a topic. We pull the relevant articles from the archive and generate a structured briefing in about 15 seconds. 5 per month on Pro; 20 per month on Pro+.

Daily morning synthesis

Paid plans. Auto-generated, no setup. Each morning at 7am Pacific (14:00 UTC) we send your normal watchlist digest email with a new “Your Nexus · Morning synthesis” section prepended. It’s a 2-4 paragraph executive brief that synthesizes everything that matched your watchlists overnight, with inline outlet citations. Skip the article-by-article scan when you’re short on time.

Bookmarks

All plans. Tap the bookmark icon on any article card. Access them all at Account → Bookmarks. Caps: 100 on Free, 500 on Pro, 1,000 on Pro+. Useful for saving stories you want to come back to or cite later.