The machine
Deterministic pipeline. Agent judgment. Auditable end to end.
The hard part of an AI system isn't the model — it's keeping it trustworthy. This pipeline separates the two cleanly: a deterministic CLI does everything mechanical, and an AI agent is invited only where genuine judgment is needed — always inside a versioned contract, always verified afterward.
The pipeline
- Scan — discover new episodes from each channel (YouTube RSS / Rumble). Deterministic; runs on a schedule.
- Transcribe — fill the transcript (paid caption API, or local GPU speech-to-text for Rumble). Deterministic.
- Intake — an agent analyzes one transcript into a structured report, under a per-channel contract. Judgment, on rails.
- Compound — coins, themes, and frameworks accumulate into a wiki of durable knowledge.
- Synthesize — the weekly pass distills it all into the live per-channel and global dashboards you can read on this site.
- Publish — a deterministic gate renders only the safe synthesis pages out to this website. No human copy-paste.
Why you can trust the output
CLI owns the steps
Every mechanical action is one deterministic command — reproducible, scriptable, testable.
Contracts, not vibes
The agent's inputs and required outputs are pinned in versioned contract files, not buried in a prompt.
Verified transitions
State only advances when a run checks out Expected vs Claimed vs Actual. Mismatch = refuse.
Attributed & dated
Every claim carries a source tag and date, traceable back to a specific episode.
Audited runs
Each run leaves a record — what was expected, what changed, what was verified.
Safe by construction
The publish gate is a closed allowlist with a fail-closed check — paid material and secrets can't leak.
What it saves
A week of crypto livestreams is many hours of watching. The pipeline compresses that into a few minutes of reading, without losing the provenance: you can always trace a line in the synthesis back to the episode and date it came from. The summarization is the visible part; the discipline around it — deterministic steps, contracts, verification — is what makes it something you can actually rely on.