Recap.ai is a news consumption platform that provides both the latest news and a historical timeline of events leading up to the present day, aiming to give readers authentic and unbiased contextual news.
Based on the 2024 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, majority of the population gets their news online than offline, or from traditional media, indicating a shift in global news consumption towards digital and social media platforms.
Recap.ai's core feature is the recap, which is a chronological timeline of related events that have led up to the current state of affairs.
Recap.ai's target customers include academic institutions and research organizations, with tiered pricing based on institution size, usage, and timeline depth.
Recap.ai's development will have an alpha, beta, and production release phases with a focus on core functionality, timeline generation, and basic personalization before a full public launch of consumer app with free and premium tiers.
Threats to Recap.ai's success include ineffective timeline generation algorithm, inability to provide truly unbiased content, high development and maintenance costs of AI-driven features, difficulty in sourcing and curating diverse, high-quality content, and failure to attract and retain B2B clients.