About koorato — Tell an AI what to track.

A personal AI agent for daily briefs on the topics you choose. Free, founder-funded, no algorithm.

The problem

Most news and feed apps optimize for one thing: engagement. They learn what makes you click, then feed you more of it. The result is familiar — doomscroll, outrage, time captured. The product owns your attention; you don't.

AI was supposed to fix this. Instead, the AI products that work — Perplexity Pro, Brief.ai paid tier, ChatGPT Plus — are subscription-locked behind paywalls, or they replicate the same engagement-optimized model with a chat interface bolted on.

What koorato does differently

You write one sentence about what you actually want to read about — your curation prompt. AI ranks every article by how well it matches your words. There is no second algorithm second-guessing you, no engagement signal pulling your feed off-course.

Want city events? Mention your city. Want F1 news but not gossip? Say so. Want only things from a specific source category? Write it. The AI honors your text. That's the whole model.

On top of the curated feed, koorato also gives you daily AI briefson arbitrary topics you specify — not fixed categories. Type "Trump" or "ASEAN politics" or "quantum computing" as a topic, and a fresh summary card appears each morning, in your language.

Why it's free

Because the founder is paying for it personally. The math works at indie scale: local Qwen on a single DGX Spark does the heavy translation and summarization, free tier Gemini handles the latency-sensitive scoring, Cloudflare Workers serve the frontend, and the marginal cost per active user is in the cents.

The promise is free forever for the first 1,000 users, and probably well beyond. No bait-and-switch to a paid tier. No ads coming eventually. No tracking pixel quietly added next year.

If koorato ever needs to pay for itself, it will be transparent and through means that don't compromise the "you control the curation" principle. That rules out: ad networks, engagement optimization, data sale, sponsored placement in the feed. It leaves: explicit donations, optional Pro features that don't degrade the free experience, or a hard pivot.

Who it's for

People tired of feeds that optimize against them. Expats and diaspora readers who want a non-US-default lens. Multilingual readers who want news translated on demand without paying for a translator. Anyone curious about what "a personal AI agent for everyday topics" actually feels like in practice.

What it isn't

Not a Perplexity replacement (no chat / Q&A). Not a Twitter / Threads (no posting). Not a publisher (everything links back to original sources; koorato never strips bylines). Not a startup raising money (founder-funded, no investors, no growth-at-all-costs pressure).

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