About Hark

Why we built it

Hark started with a daily habit. Our founder spent 30 to 45 minutes every morning reading newsletters, the price of staying genuinely current and sharp for the day, and then spent another 30 to 45 minutes walking the dog. The realization was simple: if the newsletters could be read aloud, both could happen at once.

So we built Hark around a five-minute habit instead of a thirty-minute chore. Rather than the daily pressure to sit and read for half an hour or more, you listen for five minutes on a walk, a commute, or over coffee. You get most of your morning back and still keep up. That small, repeatable habit is the whole point: you stay more current, you walk into any conversation ready, and you feel a little smarter every single day.

The idea: never hand an app your inbox

Every other newsletter reader asks you to connect your email, a standing grant to read your entire mailbox. We took the opposite approach. You set a single forwarding filter that you control, and only the bulk newsletters you choose ever reach us. Your personal and financial email never leaves your provider. Delete the filter and the connection is gone. That constraint shapes everything else we do.

How your briefing is made

When your newsletters arrive, we classify them, keeping the editorial ones, dropping marketing, and permanently deleting the raw mail within 14 days. We then synthesize the day's stories into a short spoken script, always with a link back to the original source, and read it in a natural voice. We summarize and point you to the source. We never reproduce a newsletter in full, and we never train models on your content.

A briefing is a convenience, not a replacement for the original reporting, and never professional financial, medical, or legal advice. The sources are always one tap away, and we say so on every episode.

How we choose the newsletters we recommend

Our newsletter guides are hand-checked. For each one we include, we confirm it's currently publishing, note whether it's free or paid, and link straight to the official signup. We don't take payment for placement, we don't reproduce anyone's content, and where a price or detail is uncertain we say so rather than guess. When something changes, we update the page and its date.

Who we are

Hark is an independent product, currently in beta. We're small on purpose: the whole design principle is to hold as little of your data as possible, for as short a time as possible. The best way to reach us about anything, including corrections, is the letters desk at scoop@hark.news. Read more about how we handle data in our Privacy Policy.