A note from the founder
For the founder who opens the news before their eyes are fully open, and closes it worried they missed the one thing that mattered.
Redil Katal · Founder, Seventy
If you run a company, you know the feeling. You open the AI news before your eyes are fully open — another model, another funding round, another thread insisting everything changed overnight — and you close it worried you missed the one thing that mattered.
I built Seventy for that moment.
Around two hundred stories about AI are published every day. Three or four will change a decision you make this quarter: who to hire, what to build, what to stop paying for, who is suddenly competing with you. The rest is noise dressed up as urgency.
So we read all of it, keep only what changes a decision, and say why in one line. Some days that is ten stories. Some days it is three. When nothing is worth your time, we say so.
You don't have to know everything. You have to know the few things that change your week.
The decisions that keep you up at night are usually the ones nobody else knows you're making.
Building something is lonely in a way people outside it rarely see. You are expected to have a view on everything — the market, the model, the money — and to have it by Monday.
You don't have to know everything. You have to know the few things that change your week. That is the whole job of this publication: to hand you those, quickly, and then get out of your way so you can go back to the work only you can do.
If Seventy ever wastes your seventy seconds, it has failed at the one thing it exists to do.
No testimonials, because we have no readers to quote yet, and a publication that invents one has already told you what it is. What follows is checkable instead.
Not a logo wall. The list shows what each source is trusted at in the ranking formula, how many of its stories have ever been published, and where its terms leave us exposed. The source with the most published stories sits on the lowest weight, and that is on the page too.
See the sources →No issue is edited after the fact and none is hidden. Days when only four stories qualified are in there looking like days when only four stories qualified.
Read the archive →Each issue prints how many stories were read and how many were kept. It is the one number that gets worse if we pad, which is exactly why it is printed.
Today's issue →Including the stories we read and rejected, which are counted beside every result. A publication that only shows you its hits is not showing you its judgement.
Search it →Published by Redil Katal, who is one person and says so. If the publication breaks one of these, the address at the bottom of every issue reaches him directly.
Nobody ever lost a company for missing a headline. People lose companies by missing a shift.
Your attention is the scarcest thing your company has. Guard it the way you guard cash.
The founders who win are rarely the ones who read the most. They are the ones who decide fastest on what matters.
The quiet weeks, when nothing seems to move, are part of it too. Keep going.
Thank you for giving it a morning. I hope it gives you a few minutes back.
Redil Katal
Founder, Seventy