Membership & Access
Every tier unlocks the full Swift Digest archive, the morning briefing, and comment threads. Member and Founding tiers add the midday and evening briefings, member-only long-form, source documents, audio, and member-only access to features in the Swift Digest app at launch.
Reader is daily reporting plus the morning briefing. Member adds the midday and evening briefings, member-only long-form, audio, and app member features. Founding Member adds the founding badge, lifetime grandfathered pricing, quarterly ask-the-desk Q&As, priority response on tips, and event invitations.
Yes. Memberships are month-to-month or annual, and you can cancel at any time. Service continues to the end of the current billing period and does not renew.
Founding rates are available through public launch of the Swift Digest app. Anyone who joins as a Founding Member during this window keeps that rate for the life of their account, regardless of future price changes.
Gift memberships are available for any tier — reach out via the contact form and we'll set it up. Gift memberships do not auto-renew unless the recipient activates a billing relationship.
Yes — full refunds within 14 days of the initial charge. After that window, partial refunds for unused portions of an annual term are issued at our discretion.
The Swift Digest App
We're targeting public launch within the next several months. Founding investors get TestFlight and Play Store internal-track access starting in closed beta, before public launch.
Native iOS (Swift) and native Android (Kotlin) at launch. Both are built natively — not webview wrappers — and reading-first by design. CarPlay and Android Auto support are planned for the audio rollout.
Members get the midday and evening briefings, audio versions of every featured story, member-only long-form, source-document attachments, comment threads, and ask-the-desk Q&As. Non-members get a trimmed morning briefing and limited public articles.
Three tiers: critical (real breaking news), important (your beats, your topics), and ambient (digest mode, batched delivery). You set the threshold per beat and per time of day. No outrage bait, no rage-engagement. Quiet hours respected by default.
Yes. Briefings download automatically in the background so you can read or listen offline — on the commute, on a flight, anywhere without coverage. Syncs back when you reconnect.
Investor Program
A small early-investor round to fund Swift Digest app development through public launch. Founding investors receive equity in Swift Digest, lifetime membership, a founding-investor badge, direct input on the public product roadmap, and right of first refusal on subsequent rounds.
We're keeping the round small to give each founding investor meaningful equity and direct access. Check sizes are flexible across a few tiers — reach out and we'll share the term sheet and a calendar link to talk.
Use the contact form and select "Invest in the Swift Digest app," or email [email protected] directly. We'll send the deck, the term sheet, and book a time to walk through it together. All shared materials are provided in confidence.
Founding investors join quarterly roadmap briefings with the team and have a clear channel for feedback on the public product roadmap. We don't trade editorial independence — but on product, design, and feature priority, founding investors have a real seat at the table.
Yes — they're separate. A Founding Member pays for membership; a Founding Investor invests in the company and receives equity, lifetime membership, and additional benefits. Many founding investors are also founding members; the two roles complement each other.
Editorial Principles
Reader memberships fund the newsroom directly. The founding investor round funds app development through launch. We do not run programmatic ads. We do not take corporate sponsorship of editorial content. We do not sell reader data.
Source confidentiality is honored when requested. We do not log unnecessary identifying information on tip submissions, we do not surrender source identities to third parties without a court order, and even then we will fight unnecessary disclosure. Tips can be sent to [email protected].
When we get something wrong, we correct it at the top of the article, in the next briefing, and in our public corrections log. Trust is earned by being honest when mistakes happen — there's no incentive to hide errors.
Conflicts are disclosed at the top of any piece where they apply. Reporters do not cover companies they hold positions in. Investors in Swift Digest are disclosed if they appear in coverage. Editorial independence is structural, not aspirational.
We use AI tools for drafting research notes, summarizing public documents, and other internal workflows — never to replace reporting. Every published piece is written, edited, and fact-checked by humans. We do not allow AI training on Swift Digest content without permission.
General
Yes — the public morning newsletter is free and includes a trimmed version of the daily morning briefing. Members receive the full briefing plus midday and evening editions in their inbox and the app.
Yes. Public articles are available via RSS at /feed/. Members get a private member RSS URL with full article content, available from the account settings page.
Occasional sharing of articles with friends or colleagues is fine. Mass redistribution, scraping, syndication, or use of Swift Digest content for AI training requires written permission. For licensing inquiries, email [email protected].
Press inquiries go to [email protected] or through the contact form (select "Press / Media inquiry"). We try to respond within one business day.