# Byline Intelligence

> Byline Intelligence is the morning brief of record for communications and public affairs teams at associations and policy-exposed organizations in the US: five items or fewer, judged against priorities you wrote down, each with the document behind it, and a record of what you knew and decided. Each brief says what changed, why it matters and what to watch next, with the evidence behind each material claim. Byline's one product is Byline Desk, a dedicated intelligence desk for one organization at a time. Byline Daily, a planned fixed-scope, source-backed weekday morning brief for individual professionals, national or regional, each edition with its scope stated in advance, is not delivered yet. An offering that combines the two is Byline's product direction.

Headline: The world makes news. You make the call.

## Byline Desk

- Each morning the program runs, Byline reads the sources the client follows, screens them against the client's stated priorities, and sends at most five items: what changed, why it matters to the organization, what to consider next, and the evidence behind material claims.
- The client and Byline write the Intelligence Constitution: priorities, audiences, entities and competitors to follow, urgent signals, and what is out of scope. It is versioned; a version is published only after a named Byline reviewer signs it.
- Each item carries one call, set by a fixed score and capped by the evidence, one of four words in rising attention: Monitor, Note, Prepare or Respond. Beside its review status, an evidence check says whether the sources support the claim, the claim is reported by one source and not independently corroborated, or the sources disagree.
- Evidence review (a named reviewer's attestation bound to the exact version), the client's own decision approval, and delivery are three separate records. A brief no person reviewed says so. Every version is sealed; corrections are new versions beside the delivered one; approvals, attestations and deliveries are appended and cannot be edited.
- AI extracts claims from source text, drafts readable language, and proposes whether an item fits the program and what action the evidence supports. Fixed rules set each item's call; source checks and those rules can lower it or set the item aside, and nothing the model proposes can raise it. AI cannot send, approve or attest a brief, or alter a record. The model provider and its terms are named on the Privacy page.
- The path: a complimentary first brief on one issue (no ongoing service starts from it), then the Constitution Sprint (about two weeks: the Intelligence Constitution written and signed, and five mornings run against it; fixed price, quoted on request, credited in full against a program), then a program (quoted per program, under a written agreement). No figures are published on the site.

## Byline Daily (planned)

- Planned editions for professionals, national or regional, each with its scope stated in advance. An item enters only if the record's own text falls within the edition's scope; a federal item in a regional edition carries the sentence that ties it to the region; a morning with nothing that qualifies would be shown as a quiet morning with a coverage note. Planned as a weekday edition. Not a feed of everything that happened.
- Each item carries what changed, why it matters, what to watch next, a source link or a named source (primary when practical), and one call: Monitor, Note, Prepare or Respond. Relevance is bounded by the edition's stated scope, not inferred from the reader.
- Status: the page takes one-brief requests through a form a person reads; nothing is sent automatically, and no next-day delivery is promised. No edition is delivered yet, and billing is not open. Pricing will be published when billing opens; nothing is charged, and no card is required.
- Daily does not include bespoke monitoring, a personal Intelligence Constitution, comprehensive tracking, legal or strategic advice, real-time emergency coverage, or any action on a reader's behalf.

## Status

- Geography: the United States. A Desk program's reach is its organization's own: federal agencies and Congress, one state's government, or both.
- Byline runs programs built from public sources, so nothing on the site reports client results.
- Byline holds no formal certification, has had no third-party penetration test, and offers no service-level agreement; the Trust page says so.
- Access to the application is by invitation only.

## Pages

In the order the site's navigation gives them, then the footer's.

- [Home](https://bylineintelligence.com/): the headline, the terms of a first brief, one example item and one example morning (a fictional association, real public documents linked to their originals), how it works, what every brief shows, and the first-brief request form.
- [Byline Desk](https://bylineintelligence.com/desk/): the offer in one block (what you get, who it is for, the first brief and how to buy), the call and its evidence, the Intelligence Constitution, how coverage is built, four checkable proofs, a quiet morning defended, what Desk includes, and the first-brief request form.
- [How it works](https://bylineintelligence.com/how-it-works/): the Intelligence Constitution you set in advance, what is read and set aside, the five parts of every item and where AI is used, review, approval and delivery as three separate records, and what Byline is not.
- [Trust](https://bylineintelligence.com/trust/): what Byline enforces, and what it does not claim: kept apart, review and approval as separate records, what a program stores, how AI is used, and what Byline does not claim.
- [About Byline](https://bylineintelligence.com/about/): what Byline does, who it is for, its national and regional scope, the people behind it, who is accountable, and what is available now.
- [Writing](https://bylineintelligence.com/writing/): three essays on communications decision intelligence.
- [Sample brief](https://bylineintelligence.com/sample-brief/): one sample brief rendered in full, an example composed from public documents linked to their originals, with a print stylesheet.
- [Contact](https://bylineintelligence.com/contact/): a form with a topic to choose; a person reads every message.
- [Partner](https://bylineintelligence.com/partner/): for the practices that advise communications and public affairs teams at associations and policy-exposed organizations: a Desk for their client run by Byline, a method procurement can read, and the planned Byline Daily for a client's team, each partnership agreed in writing.
- [Byline Daily](https://bylineintelligence.com/daily/): the edition's scope, what an edition would carry and what Daily does not include, what a reader can presently receive, the plans, the one-brief request form, and the editorial boundaries.
- [Privacy](https://bylineintelligence.com/privacy/), [Terms](https://bylineintelligence.com/terms/), [Accessibility](https://bylineintelligence.com/accessibility/).

## Key terms

- **Intelligence Constitution**: the client's priorities and monitoring scope, written down with Byline. Every brief is judged against it. The client owns it; every published version is kept and dated, and a new version needs a named Byline reviewer's signature.
- **Evidence Attestation**: a Byline reviewer's confirmation that each item in a brief is supported by the evidence cited and that the stated uncertainties and coverage limits are accurate. A brief sent without one says so.
- **Decision Approval**: the client's own approver saying an item may stand in the brief in the client's name. Items whose call is Prepare or Respond, and items whose sources disagree, need one. Byline's staff cannot give it for a client.
- **Coverage note**: how many of the sources a program follows were successfully checked for a brief, which were unavailable, and what was found but not assessed. A brief is labeled Coverage gap when a source the program relies on for a stated priority was unavailable, or no source could be checked at all; such a brief is not an all-clear.

## Privacy in brief

- The site sets no cookies and loads nothing from other companies. It keeps anonymous totals of five kinds of events: pages opened, first use of the illustrative example on a page, a call revealed where a page offers one, example documents opened, and requests sent (a first-brief request or a one-brief request). Each count is a daily total for one event on one page, with no identifier, and nothing is counted when a browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.
- A submitted form carries what the reader typed and nothing else. The first-brief request form asks for a full name, an organization, a work email and one issue or question, with an optional box to hear about a paid continuation. Netlify hosts the site and receives form submissions and standard server logs.

## Using this content

- Cite freely, with attribution to Byline Intelligence and a link to the page cited.
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## Contact

- The contact form at https://bylineintelligence.com/contact/, for questions, partnerships, press and privacy or security concerns; the first-brief request form at https://bylineintelligence.com/desk/#request, to ask for a first brief, which the home page's request buttons open. A reply to a form goes to the address given in it.