A daily briefing for a startup founder
A short recurring show covering your market, your competitors and the money — set up so it does not become a funding-announcement feed.
The short answer
Describe a recurring show naming your market, your three closest competitors and the customer you sell to, and ask it to open with anything a customer or an investor might raise with you this week. Ten minutes, weekday mornings, researched fresh on each run.
How to set it up
Name the competitors explicitly
A show described as ‘the AI note-taking market’ produces a category survey. One described with three company names produces something you can act on, because it goes looking for what those companies actually did.
Ask for the conversation you will have
‘What might a customer or an investor bring up this week, and what is the honest answer’ turns a news round-up into preparation. It is the single instruction that makes this worth ten minutes a day.
Exclude funding news unless it is yours to worry about
Left unfiltered these shows become an announcement feed, because that is what is published most. ‘Only mention a raise if it changes who I am competing with’ removes almost all of it.
At a glance
- Suggested cadence
- Weekday mornings
- Suggested length
- 8–10 minutes
- Key instruction
- Name competitors and customers explicitly
- Also works
- Uploading board decks for a pre-meeting catch-up
Hear what comes out
Shows already published on Lissin, free to play in the browser.
Questions
- Can it track a specific competitor’s product changes?
- It researches what is publicly visible — announcements, coverage, public changelogs — and you can paste a specific page in to be sure it is read. What it does not do is monitor anything: nothing is polled, and nothing tells you when a page changes.
- Is this a replacement for reading the trade press?
- No, and it should not be. It is a way to know what happened on the days you did not open anything, and to notice when something is worth reading properly.
- Can I use it for board prep?
- Upload the deck and the last set of minutes and ask for the questions a sceptical board member would ask. That is a different, one-off show and one of the better uses of an upload.
What this does not do
No private data, no CRM, no access to anything not published. And a briefing about your own market will sometimes tell you things you already know better than any source does — that is unavoidable and worth tolerating for the days it does not.
Try it on something you already have
Upload a PDF, a deck or a document and describe the show you want from it. Or press play on anything in the library first — no account, no app.
Last reviewed 9 September 2026 by Lissin Editorial.