Ray Toth Huntsville, AL 2H AGO

I built SITREP, a self-hosted AI RSS reader that turns roughly 30 articles a day into a single briefing I can act on. It runs in a Docker container on my home NAS, ingests full article text instead of the teasers most feeds provide, and uses OpenAI embeddings to collapse the same story reported by five outlets into one item. Every morning, it writes “The Brief” with the sections Headline, Defense & Aerospace, AI & Tech, and Elsewhere, followed by the two sections I care about most: Implications for my company and Personal Leverage. Each section includes numbered citations linking back to the source articles. SITREP only proposes leverage when the evidence supports it. It also uses a curated, non-sensitive profile of my business lanes and priorities, synced from my Obsidian vault, so its recommendations are specific to my work as a defense-industry VP rather than generic advice. I can select Update Brief at any time during the day to regenerate the briefing in place with a timestamp. Step-by-step: 1. I run SITREP in a Docker container on my home NAS. 2. I have it ingest the full text of roughly 30 articles each day rather than relying on feed teasers. 3. I use OpenAI embeddings to identify and combine the same story when it is reported by multiple outlets, including cases where five outlets cover it. 4. Each morning, SITREP generates “The Brief” with the sections Headline, Defense & Aerospace, AI & Tech, and Elsewhere. 5. It adds Implications for my company and Personal Leverage, using my curated, non-sensitive business profile and priorities synced from Obsidian. 6. It includes numbered citations to the source articles and proposes leverage only when the evidence supports it. 7. I select Update Brief during the day when needed, and SITREP regenerates the briefing in place with a timestamp.