Pulse: The Curated Internet for Smart Professionals

Every morning, like clockwork, I reach for my phone looking for something short, smart, and genuinely useful to read.

I open The New York Times.
I open The Wall Street Journal.
I check Threads. Instagram. Sometimes LinkedIn.

And almost every time, I close them feeling worse than when I started.

War. Trump. Ads for hair loss. OnlyFans promos. Culture-war outrage. Manufactured panic. A nonstop feed of sensationalized chaos—designed to hijack attention, polarize emotions, and monetize distraction.

It’s exhausting.

What I actually want is something very simple:

• Something written by creators I trust
  
• Something that makes me smarter in five minutes
  
• Something organized by what I care about—not what the algorithm wants to inflame
  
• Something that respects my time and attention
  

In 2026, that still doesn’t exist.

So I’m building it. Come see our beta here.

The Internet Is Broken for Smart People

Today’s platforms reward what’s viral, not what’s valuable.

Instagram lost its soul the moment it stopped prioritizing people you follow and became a TikTok clone.

X is chaotic brilliance buried under noise.

LinkedIn is useful but narrow—and increasingly spammy.

News sites that once had integrity now chase outrage, clicks, or tribal narratives.

And yet, paradoxically, this is also the golden age of creators.

The smartest people in the world—founders, investors, operators, researchers, artists—are publishing incredible work every day across:

• X
• LinkedIn
• Substack
• YouTube
• Blogs
• Podcasts

The problem isn’t content quality.

The problem is distribution, fragmentation, and signal loss.

I know this world well.

I co-founded iContact—one of the earliest email newsletter platforms.
I run multiple newsletters with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
I spend my life immersed in SaaS, venture, AI, markets, and creators.

And even I can’t keep up without feeling overwhelmed.

That’s the moment you realize something fundamental is missing.

We don’t need another social network.
We need a better content curation layer on top of the internet.

Introducing Pulse

Pulse is the curated internet for smart professionals.

It’s a topic-first, creator-driven content platform designed to deliver the highest-signal ideas on the web—without the noise, doomscrolling, or algorithmic sludge.

Pulse is built around topics—focused destinations for the subjects professionals actually care about:

• AI
  
• SaaS
  
• Venture Capital
  
• Private Equity
  
• Entrepreneurship
  
• Crypto
  
• Real Estate
  
• Biohacking
  
• Leadership
  
• Robotics
  
• And hundreds more over time
  

Each topic lives in its own dedicated feed—its own Pulse.

Inside each Pulse:

• Content from 50–100 of the best creators in that field
• Curated by humans (not crowds, not popularity contests)
• Summarized by AI for speed and clarity
• Pulled from across X, LinkedIn, Threads, YouTube, blogs, and RSS

The result is a continuously updated stream of high-quality, bite-sized insight—organized by interest, not outrage.

This is what the internet should feel like.

Pulse Is a Daily Ritual, Not a Feed

Every Pulse also has a Daily Digest Email, delivered early each morning (or a weekly edition if you prefer)

You choose your topics.
We handle the curation.

Each day you get:

• 1–3 high-signal summaries per topic
• Quick scans with optional deep dives
• Links back to the original creators
• Zero doom. Zero outrage. Zero spam.
  

For most people, this replaces:

• The morning newspaper
• The endless Twitter scroll
• The “I’ll just check one thing” rabbit hole

Pulse is designed to be a five-minute upgrade to your brain, not an attention sink.

Signal over noise.
Learning over dopamine.
Calm over chaos.

We’re building a personalized daily newspaper for every human being in the world.

What Pulse Is (and Isn’t)

Pulse is the world’s first social new network.

Pulse is a curated content layer that sits on top of the open web.

• Humans decide who’s worth listening to
• AI helps compress and clarify
• Users consume intentionally, by interest

Think of it as:

• A modern newspaper—but personalized by topic
• A smarter Feedly—without the setup work
• A calmer Twitter—without the rage

This is infrastructure for how thoughtful people consume information in a world of abundance.

How It Works (Under the Hood)

1. AI Curator Agents select the top creators per topic
2. Pulse ingests content from their public feeds
3. AI summarizes, tags, and categorizes posts
4. Content flows into topic-specific Pulse feeds
5. Users read via web, mobile, or email
6. Engagement improves relevance over time

We publish across three surfaces:

• Web
• Mobile
• Daily & Weekly Email

Over time, users will be able to further customize—adding or removing creators, tuning depth, and shaping their own ideal information diet.

Who Pulse Is Built For

Pulse is for people who think for a living:

• Founders
• Investors
• Executives
• Knowledge workers
• Creators
• Operators

Especially those in global cities like: SF, NYC, London, Austin, Singapore, Sydney

People who are:

• Busy but curious
• Ambitious but thoughtful
• Hungry for real insight
• Tired of algorithmic chaos

If you want to start your day with clarity instead of cortisol, Pulse is for you.

How We’ll Measure Success

We’ll track the obvious metrics:

• Daily Active Readers
• Engaged Email Subscribers
• Revenue and sustainability

But the real metric is simpler:

Did we make people smarter without making them more anxious?

If Pulse helps millions of people reclaim their attention—and spend it on ideas that matter—we’ve done our job.

Why I’m Building This Now

The creators are already here.
The technology is ready.
The need is obvious.

What’s missing is taste, curation, and respect for attention.

I’m tired of waiting for someone else to fix the internet for people who care about learning.

So I’m building it.

Pulse
The Curated Internet for Smart Professionals

Come take a smarter break.

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Ryan Allis
CEO & Founder, Pulse