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 or the paragraph where it was said.
How a source gets in
Every beat is curated by hand. A source is fetched and checked before it is listed, and a feed that answers but has stopped publishing is a fail, not a warning. Every source is English-language today.
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