We Replaced Our Morning News Routine With Scottie AI: Here’s How It Went

Dominic Anderson September 18, 2026

Key Takeaways

Scottie AI is a tool that summarizes news and information, delivering it to you daily as one digest with duplicate stories removed.
It integrates with any feed, Substack, YouTube channel, or newsletter you give it.
The tool is useful, but it does come at the cost of AI curation and some loss of nuance.

Information overload is very real. Besides the hundreds of things that vie for our attention every day, there’s a flood of information online that continues to bombard us. How do we manage the sources we actually want to consume without letting them overwhelm us?

Our answer was to try out Scottie AI and see what it could do for condensing and summarizing our intake without skipping out on important information. We’re here to share our findings.

The News in Brief – Our Scottie AI Review

Let’s get straight into things and see what Scottie AI is all about:

What Is Scottie AI?

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Scottie AI is, at its heart, a news and information summarizer. You tell Scottie what you’re interested in, what you’re researching, or what you want to keep on top of, and Scottie AI is, at its heart, a news and information summarizer. One summary from all your sources, designed to be consumed in much less time than checking each source individually.

The AI decides what’s important and relevant to the needs and preferences you’ve described and summarizes and delivers on that.

It works for news and newsletters, but it goes beyond that too: Substacks, RSS feeds, YouTube channels, Reddit, and local news. Anything is up for shortening and in any field: research, investment, trends.

Getting to Know You

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When trying out Scottie, you first tell it what you follow and what you’re interested in so it can build your source list. You can list the topics, feeds, and channels you follow, as well as ask for any new ones you may be interested in.

Integration

How do you get your feeds? We opted for a message to our mailbox every day to receive what Scottie read and summarized every night. That said, it doesn’t have to be limited to that. Your summary is delivered by email at the time you choose, so you can read it wherever you normally read your email.

No Repeats

What separates Scottie AI from your standard news aggregator is the lack of repetition. If multiple sources are covering the same story, Scottie combines them rather than showing every version separately. Scottie states upfront that too much information is the problem they’re looking to solve. Efficiency is everything.

Sources that aren’t included in the main brief are still listed for transparency, and every claim is linked to its source.

Security

You might be wondering if giving Scottie your email gives it access to your entire inbox. The answer is no; Scottie delivers the brief to your email address without needing access to your personal inbox. If, however, you want to include newsletters you receive in your inbox, you can forward them to your private Scottie address instead of giving Scottie access to your inbox. The choice is yours.

Cost

Scottie is pretty upfront with its cost – $15 per month, reduced from the planned standard price of $30. This is expensive in the field (Feedly Pro is $8) but is unique in its summary offering. There’s no telling when this full fee might return. If you are unsure about things, there’s also a 14-day free trial to get you started.

Whose Summary?

So far, so good, but what are the downsides? Well, for us, information comes from a variety of sources. Having one source summarize it and sort the relevant data from the irrelevant does impose a certain myopia. What’s more, this form of AI decision-making means that information and nuance are invariably lost in compression.

It’s not a magic bullet, and Scottie (and summarizers as a whole) do mean trading off depth for convenience. If you’re okay with that, then Scottie is perfectly up to the challenge.