18 industries · 1,079 sources in the library
The industries Briefwire reads, and every source in each
An industry and its curated source library is what Briefwire calls a beat. Each one is a hand-picked set of public podcasts, YouTube shows, blogs, newsletters and release feeds — enough to cover the field, few enough to audit. Open a beat to see every source in it by name.
AI Tooling
Model labs, inference platforms, and the release feeds that date every capability claim.
IncludesPractical AI · OpenAI News · Two Minute Papers · vLLM Releases and the rest →
Dev Tools & Infra
Cloud platforms, developer infrastructure, and the changelogs that date every shipped feature.
IncludesData Engineering Podcast · GitHub Changelog · GitHub · Terraform Releases and the rest →
B2B SaaS & GTM
SaaS operating benchmarks, pricing and go-to-market, from operators and the tools they run on.
IncludesThe Dave Gerhardt Show (Exit Five) · SaaStr · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · The GTMnow Podcast and the rest →
E-commerce / DTC
Retail and DTC economics: platform changes, channel costs, and merchant-side reality.
IncludesEcommerce Coffee Break · Shopify Platform Changelog · Learn with Shopify · Shopify Hydrogen releases and the rest →
Fintech & Payments
Payments infrastructure, banking strategy, and the regulators who reset both.
IncludesOdd Lots · Stripe Blog · All-In Podcast · Stripe Node SDK Releases and the rest →
Crypto & Stablecoins
Digital-asset markets, stablecoin issuance, and the protocol releases underneath them.
IncludesEmpire · CoinDesk · Coin Bureau · go-ethereum Releases and the rest →
Cybersecurity
Threat intelligence, breach reporting, and the advisories that drive enterprise security spend.
IncludesDarknet Diaries · Krebs on Security · John Hammond · Security Now and the rest →
Healthcare / Biotech
Drug development, health-system economics, and the regulator that gates both.
IncludesBusiness of Biotech · STAT · JAMA Network · Medplum Releases and the rest →
Climate & Energy
Energy-transition project economics, utility strategy, and climate-tech capital flows.
IncludesRedefining Energy · Canary Media · Just Have a Think · Zero: The Climate Race (Bloomberg) and the rest →
Semiconductors / Hardware / Robotics
Silicon supply chains, independent hardware measurement, and the robotics companies buying it all.
IncludesArm Newsroom · SemiAnalysis · Asianometry · Zephyr RTOS Releases and the rest →
Legal & RegTech
Legal technology adoption, law-firm buying, and the enforcement actions that create compliance demand.
IncludesLegaltech Week · Kennedy-Mighell Report · Clio · docassemble Releases and the rest →
HR & Future of Work
Hiring tools, workforce data, and the employment rules that reset employer obligations.
IncludesOffer Accepted (Ashby) · Josh Bersin · SHRM · Chad & Cheese and the rest →
Insurance & Insurtech
Carrier strategy, reinsurance pricing, and the distribution and core-system modernisation underneath.
IncludesInsurance Business Babes · Artemis.bm · AM Best · The Voice of Insurance and the rest →
Real Estate & PropTech
Commercial real-estate capital markets, mortgage technology, and construction-site digitisation.
IncludesThe Walker Webcast · Propmodo · HousingWire · Speckle Server Releases and the rest →
Logistics & Supply Chain
Freight rates, capacity, forwarder margin, and the regulators who move all three.
IncludesResilient Supply Chain (Tom Raftery) · FreightWaves · FreightCaviar · The Freight Pod and the rest →
Manufacturing & Industrial
Automation purchasing, plant capex, and the robotics platforms industrial buyers standardise on.
IncludesIndustrial AI Podcast · Manufacturing Dive · A3 / Automate · United Manufacturing Hub Releases and the rest →
Media & Creator Economy
Publisher revenue models, programmatic advertising, and the platform rule changes both depend on.
IncludesPodnews · AdExchanger · Ad Age · Prebid.js Releases and the rest →
Gaming
Studio economics, platform policy, engine migration, and the discovery data that drives publishing.
IncludesGame Economist Cast · Naavik · Unreal Engine · SDL Releases and the rest →
What you get from a beat
12 ranked lines per brief, daily or weekly: the claims, decisions and reasoning people in the industry stated in public, each linked to the second it was said where the transcript is timed, or the post it was written in.
How a source gets in
Every beat is curated by hand. Each feed is fetched and checked when it is added and again whenever the library is re-checked by hand: one whose newest item is more than six months old fails, and one quiet for more than three is flagged but can stay listed. Every source is English-language today.
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