Every Kin Wire brief was written from scratch, the moment it was asked for. Nothing was pre-baked and served to a thousand people. That is what the money paid for, and why the pricing worked the way it did. This page is left up as the record of it; nothing here can be bought.
The national section went out on its own, free, every Monday. Read the last one →
Not a feed, and not a summary of headlines someone else wrote. When a reader asked for a brief, Kin Wire ran live web searches across real news sources for their home city, the cities they tracked, and the country — then wrote the result in plain language, with a link on every item back to where it came from.
Every brief covered the reader's home city, up to two cities they followed for someone they cared about, and a national section. They chose the topics, and could write a plain-English note — "more municipal politics, less sports" — which it steered around.
There were no ads, no sponsored items, and nothing ranked to keep anyone scrolling. The brief ended. That was the entire product.
Each brief cost real money to produce — live web searches plus the AI work to read and write it. That cost was per brief, not per user, so an "unlimited" plan would only have meant the lightest readers subsidising the heaviest. Pricing it honestly and saying exactly what was included was the better trade.
Pay as you go suited people who wanted a brief now and then — before a visit home, or when something was happening somewhere they cared about. They added $5 or $10 to a balance and each brief drew $0.50 from it. Nothing expired, and there was no recurring charge.
A subscription suited people who wanted it as a habit. Each plan included a set number of fresh briefs a month — stated up front, not hidden in a fair-use clause. Re-opening a brief you already had was always free and never counted. Past the allowance, extra briefs were $0.40 each, less than the walk-up price, so a plan was always the better deal. Unused briefs did not roll over; that is what kept the monthly price where it was.
Can I still buy this?
No. Kin Wire closed on 3 November 2026. The checkout refuses, the prices are archived at Stripe, and no briefs are being written. Reader data is deleted on 3 December 2026.
I had a subscription — what happened to it?
Billing in your account still cancels it, which is the one money path deliberately left open, and any wallet balance you had stays yours. Nothing is being charged in the meantime.
Did tracking someone's city tell them?
No. The place name was collected and nothing else — no names, no contact details. Nobody was ever notified. See the Privacy Policy, which also carries the deletion date.
Was it written by AI?
Yes — Claude searched the web and wrote each brief. It can make mistakes, which is exactly why every item links to its source. The source is always the authoritative version.
Did you sell my data?
No. No ads, no data sales, no marketing email that was not asked for. The advertising tags are switched off too, as of 4 November 2026.