Est. 2026 · Birmingham Edition

CityBrief

AI-Powered Local News for Your City
Launching in Birmingham

Your city lost its local paper. We built something better.

CityBrief is an autonomous AI that curates your city's news, events, openings, and stories into one clean weekly brief. No clickbait. No ads. Just what matters where you live.

How It Works
01

AI Monitors Everything

Council meetings, planning applications, restaurant openings, local events, community posts. CityBrief's AI scans hundreds of local sources daily so you don't have to.

02

Curated, Not Scraped

Raw data becomes editorial. The AI filters noise, verifies facts, and writes clear stories with the care of a local journalist who actually lives there.

03

One Brief, Every Week

Saturday morning, your inbox gets the only email about your city you'll ever need. Tight, scannable, complete. Five minutes and you know everything.


For Residents

Know what's happening without doom-scrolling local Facebook groups or wading through ad-heavy news sites.

New restaurants. Road closures. Planning decisions that affect your neighbourhood. Community events worth attending. All in one place, written for humans.

For Local Businesses

Reach engaged locals who actually read about their city. CityBrief sponsor slots put your business in front of the people who live nearest to your door.

No algorithms. No bidding wars. Just a clean mention in the newsletter 10,000 locals actually open every Saturday.

300+ UK papers lost since 2009
1.1M People in Birmingham
40K+ Local businesses
1 Dominant publisher left

Local news shouldn't die just because the business model did.

AI changes the economics entirely. One system can monitor, curate, and publish for an entire city at a fraction of the cost of a newsroom. CityBrief starts with Birmingham. Then Manchester. Then every city that deserves to know what's happening in its own backyard.