AI Local News and Neighborhood Reports
School district, neighborhood, hobbies, your sports team. The local stuff worth knowing.
Alice is your AI Personal Assistant on Sistava.
National headlines are everywhere. The news that actually changes your week — school closure, new restaurant in the neighborhood, weather event affecting practice — is harder to find. Alice surfaces it.
Topics tuned to your zip code and interests. Cadence is yours: short morning digest, weekend roll-up, or instant alerts for things that affect today.
This runs as a routine rather than as a feed you have to open. Set the cadence once and it recreates itself from then on, reading what is current each time rather than replaying a saved search. Every run is recorded with its result, so a quiet week is visibly a quiet week rather than something that silently stopped working.
She is also allowed to bring you one thing unprompted, which is a separate rhythm on a slower clock. It is deliberately infrequent, and it holds back on days you have already been briefed or have been talking to her anyway, so an unasked-for find still reads like a find rather than a notification.
What you get is short and sourced: the handful of items that change something for you, each with the page it came from. Items she cannot verify do not get promoted to fact. The judgement you keep is what counts as relevant, and telling her once that the neighbourhood association mailing list is noise is enough to keep it out.
What you get
- School closures and schedule changes caught immediately.
- Neighborhood events listed (markets, festivals, openings).
- Local emergencies and weather alerts surfaced early.
- Hobby news tailored (your sport, your show, your team).
How it works
- Tracks your interests and zip code: You name the topics and the location. Alice expands coverage as she learns what you read.
- Filters local + relevant: Cuts national noise unless it directly affects your area or topics.
- Sends a short digest: Daily, weekly, or alert-driven. Quick scan format on the channel you read.
- Attaches the source to every item: One line of what changed, one link to where it was said. Nothing gets promoted to fact because it appeared somewhere.
- Adjusts to what you actually read: Tell her once that a topic is noise and it stops appearing. The list gets shorter over time rather than longer.
FAQ
Can I follow specific people?
Yes. Local journalists, public officials, your kid's coach, school principal — all trackable.
How local does she get?
Down to your zip code and the few zip codes around you. Includes school district, transit corridor, neighborhood association.
Is it daily or weekly?
Your call. Daily digest, weekly roll-up, or only alerts for things affecting today. Mix is fine.
Is this a saved search that reruns?
No. Each occurrence wakes her to go and look again with the current state of things in front of her, which is why a digest can notice that last week's story has been resolved rather than repeating it.
Will she message me on her own?
She can, and she is deliberately restrained about it. Unprompted finds run on a slow rhythm and skip the days you have already been briefed or have been in conversation with her, so the interruption stays rare enough to be worth reading.
Where does the digest show up?
In the workspace chat, and in Slack or Telegram if you connect one. She also has her own email address, so the digest can arrive in your inbox alongside everything else you read in the morning.