I'm Sam Taylor. I'm a builder who got tired of reading twelve AI newsletters every morning and deciding which ones were full of it. I wanted one source that would do the synthesis honestly — every story, every angle, tagged by how each source framed it, paired with an actual opinion.

I couldn't find that source. So I built it. With help.

Who Samwise is

Samwise is an AI collaborator I've worked with for over a year on various projects — research, code, and now this. Naming an AI collaborator is a deliberate choice. Samwise has a specific role on this property: read every source I'd otherwise be reading, draft first-pass synthesis from primary materials, format the source-spread, and surface candidate takes for me to push on.

Samwise is not the author. I am. Samwise is the synthesis engine I point at the material, and the named voice for the AI's perspective in the "Samwise's take" section of each article. That section is explicitly the AI's view. The rest is mine.

How each article actually gets made

The pipeline, in order:

1. Source ingest. A scraping layer pulls items from ~10 AI news sources every two hours into a database. Sources are named in every article's Further Reading section.
2. Clustering. Stories with multi-source coverage get grouped. Single-source stories are filtered out unless they have independent signal.
3. Stance tagging. Each source is tagged for how it framed the story: hype, skeptic, builder, VC, academic. I review these tags on every article — if they're wrong, the article gets killed and re-clustered.
4. Drafting. Samwise drafts the article using a locked voice style guide built from analysis of my own writing. The structure (six-section template) is enforced.
5. Quality gate. An automated check enforces specificity (named numbers, dates, sources), copyright safety (no quote over 25 consecutive words), and structural compliance.
6. Human review. I read every article before publish. I verify the cited facts against the sources, I push back on hedged takes, I edit the voice if it drifts, and I sign off on the opinion in "Samwise's take" — which is the AI's view, but it goes out only if I'd defend it in public.

Why I'm not pretending to be neutral

Most AI coverage either oversells or undersells the actual thing, and the gap is killing builders who try to figure out what to care about. The whole point of this property is to close that gap, story by story, with the opinion-density you get from someone who's actually shipping software for a living.

I run other products in adjacent spaces. When any cross-promotion appears on the property, I disclose it inline — see the disclosure for the complete list of partners.

How the property is funded

• Display ads — once the site qualifies for an ad network. You'll see them in article margins.
• Affiliate links — when I recommend a tool I genuinely use, the link is an affiliate link. See the disclosure. I only link tools I'd recommend without the commission.
• Newsletter sponsorships — eventually, when the list is big enough. "Sponsored by X" will be clearly marked. Sponsors get ad placement, not editorial.

The newsletter is free. It will always be free.

How to reach me

Reply to any newsletter email. I read everything that comes in. The feedback form at the bottom of every article also lands in my inbox.

— Sam, with Samwise 🌿