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Your industry's overnight, filed before you're awake.

Funding rounds, launches, regulatory guidance, executive moves. Firstlight sweeps them at 06:00 UTC and ranks them into one lead story and a tight roundup, every line carrying its source — a five-minute read waiting before 8am.

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A pre-dawn newsroom desk under a single lamp, the morning edition spread open beside a coffee cup, with the city skyline still dark and the first gold light on the horizon. — The sweep runs at 06:00 UTC · the edition is on your screen before 8am

Firstlight works across

LinkedIn Company blogs Regulatory filings Press releases Gartner notes

What you receive

One Thursday's edition, printed exactly as it lands.

The AI-agents beat — five stories, each filed with its source, closing on dates to watch and the lead in one sentence.

FirstlightThu Aug 28, 2026 · filed 06:00 UTC

Lead story

Anthropic ships computer-use API for enterprise agents

Agents move from proposing a click-path to executing it. Every RPA vendor whose moat was the integration layer has to answer this quarter.

Source: company blog

Sector roundup

EU AI Act enforcement guidance publishedEC press corner · Aug 28

Sierra raises $350M Series C at $4.5BPress release · Aug 27

Salesforce Agentforce head departs for stealth startupLinkedIn · Aug 27

Gartner: 40% of enterprise apps embed task agents by 2027Gartner note · Aug 27

How it works

Name the beat once. Read it every morning.

01 · Set the beatYour industry, your watchlist

The sub-sectors that matter and the companies you never want to be surprised by. Set once, refined whenever the beat shifts.

02 · Work the nightThe 06:00 UTC sweep

Funding and M&A, product launches, regulatory guidance, executive moves, analyst commentary — read, ranked, and each item filed with its source.

03 · File the editionFive minutes, then you're current

Lead story argued, roundup ranked, dates to watch at the close, one-sentence version at the bottom. Before 8am, every weekday.

Inside every edition

Three things a link dump will never do.

Ranked, not dumped

One lead story argued in two paragraphs, then four that earned their place. Not forty undifferentiated links for you to triage over breakfast.

Sourced line by line

Company blog, press release, regulatory notice, analyst note — every claim carries its citation, so forwarding the edition to your team is safe by default.

It files on quiet days too

The edition arrives whether the night was loud or silent. “Nothing moved on your beat” is intelligence as well, and it reads in thirty seconds.

Who runs the desk

Built by the operator who kept hearing it second.

Twin Labs · Research desk

Writing daily sector briefings since 2025.

My investors opened every meeting with news I hadn't seen yet. So I built Firstlight to read the overnight for me, and now I open the meetings instead. Same sweep, every weekday, no exceptions.

Pricing

One free edition. Then thirty a month, before 8am.

One run is one complete morning edition — lead story, sector roundup, dates to watch.

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FAQ

The three fair objections.

I already read two newsletters. Why Firstlight?

A newsletter serves an editor's audience. Firstlight serves your beat — your sub-sectors, your competitors, your watchlist — and it files every weekday regardless of anyone else's publishing schedule.

How do I know a story in it is real?

Every item is stored with the source it came from: company blog, press release, regulatory notice, funding database, analyst note. Check any line before you forward the edition — the citation is right there.

What if a night is quiet, or a run fails?

A quiet night is stated plainly and reads in thirty seconds. Failed briefings are never counted against your allowance, and delivery time is a plan setting — most readers file it 60–90 minutes before their workday starts.

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