Work / The 0400 Report
The 0400 Report: a news site that runs itself every morning.
A site we built and maintain. A national daily brief on what could disrupt your week, researched, checked, and published before 4 a.m. Central, with nobody at a keyboard.
The job
Feeds are full of doom thumbnails and "war within hours" posts, and news sites are buried in ads with a lean you can feel. The brief: a calm, sourced read on what could actually disrupt your week, readable in a couple of minutes, that puts itself together every morning.
Eight report pages a day, and the live data behind them.
One country, six regions, the world
A national threat level, six US regions, and a World page, each with its own level. The rubric is published on the site, with what would move each level up or down written under it.
SITREP and the board
A daily situation report, plus a board of categories: power grid, fuel, weather, cyber, supply chain, and more.
Viral posts, checked
The day's most-shared claims checked against the record. Each one gets its own shareable page and a ready-to-post card image, made automatically.
Straight from the source
National Weather Service radar and alerts sorted Warning, Watch, Advisory, with a state filter. FAA airport delays. Road-condition links for every state.
Marine and beach alerts
A separate view for marine warnings by body of water and beach and shoreline alerts by state, kept out of the land counts.
Archive, corrections, Facebook
Every day's levels on file, a public corrections log, email signup, a preparedness tracker linked to each government's own page, and a Facebook Page that posts the day's cards on its own, up to seven a day.
3:07 a.m. Central, every day.
Software, including AI, does the overnight legwork: it sweeps official sources, wire services, and public forums, and drafts the report. Then a separate automated check compares every item against its links before anything publishes. Political items need a wire service or a primary source, or they don't run.
The standards, the threat rubric, and the source rules are written down and published on the site, and the software is held to them. Every item links to where it came from, and corrections go in a public log.
When the report publishes, the site rebuilds itself as plain, fast pages. No ads, no tracking cookies, light on a phone's data. The first Facebook post goes out at 4:00.
The same engine can run your daily update.
Market updates, a price board, service alerts, or a daily operations brief, published every morning without anyone touching it. A realtor's daily market brief. A shop's fuel and parts price page. A morning report for an oilfield crew.
If it changes every day and someone's copying it by hand, it can probably run itself.
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