Avos is an agentic news and research platform built around personalized recurring briefings. The platform uses AI agents to research, filter, deduplicate, and synthesize information from across its source catalog into finite editions tailored to each reader’s interests, sources, markets, tone, and schedule. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Avos Founder and CEO Stef Roussos to learn more.
Stef Roussos’ Background
When asked about his background, Roussos shared:
I’m a product designer and full-stack developer. I studied at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College, and my work has increasingly focused on applied AI and building products end to end.
How Avos Started
When asked how the idea for the company came together, Roussos explained:
Avos came out of frustration with how staying informed now works. It has become a second full-time job of open tabs, repeated headlines, and noise that buries what actually matters. I realized the value isn’t in having more access to information, but in having better synthesis of it.
I became fascinated by the concept of the President’s Daily Brief, the ultimate example of high-signal, zero-noise intelligence. I wanted to see if I could use agentic AI to democratize that experience.
The goal was to build a system where intelligent agents do the heavy lifting of researching, filtering, and cross-referencing the day’s most critical developments, delivering a single, cohesive briefing that respects the reader’s time rather than competing for it.
From Prototype To Daily Product
When asked about his favorite memory working for the company so far, Roussos recalled:
The first time Avos successfully went away overnight, did the research on its own, and delivered a finished briefing in the morning was a pretty memorable moment.
It was when the idea stopped feeling like a prototype and started feeling like a product I could genuinely use every day.
Core Products And Features
When asked about the company’s core products and features, Roussos detailed:
Avos is an agentic news and research platform built around personalized recurring briefings.
Users describe the briefing they want in plain language, including topics, markets, sources, tone, and schedule. Avos then fetches hundreds of articles from across its source catalog, filters and deduplicates the coverage, and produces one finished edition, delivered in any of six languages, before the reader’s day starts.
Briefings can also carry live financial data blocks, covering stocks, crypto, forex and commodities, inline alongside the reporting. There is a free plan supported by ads, and paid plans remove the ads and add capacity and features.
The important distinction is that Avos is not another feed to check. The goal is for the software to do the first pass through the information so the reader can consume one finite edition and move on.
We’ve also introduced “Anchor Mode,” an interactive audio experience that functions like a news podcast but allows you to ask questions to dive deeper into the content.
Technology Evolution
When asked how the company’s technology has evolved since launching, Roussos explained:
Two big pieces. First, we built a large backend system, which we call Atlas, that does the heavy lifting: it searches for and ingests content from thousands of sources, processes and deduplicates it, and prepares it for each reader’s briefing specification.
That moved us from something closer to AI summarization into a proper research pipeline, and it’s instrumented closely enough that we can measure the cost of every briefing.
Second, we rebuilt the newsletter AI editor to feel much more like Lovable or v0; you describe the briefing you want in plain language and it can one-shot a complete, ready-to-send edition, which you then refine conversationally instead of configuring by hand.
That combination, a cheap and reliable pipeline plus an editor anyone can use, is a big part of why we think this category is becoming possible now.
Market Opportunity
When discussing the total addressable market Avos is pursuing, Roussos said:
We’re initially focused on professionals for whom staying informed is part of the job, particularly finance, fintech and active-market users in Europe and North America. We estimate that group at roughly 15 million people, and that is the market we are building for first.
The underlying problem is much broader than that. There are millions of knowledge workers who spend part of every day manually assembling information from news sites, newsletters, feeds, and other sources, and the same need exists inside companies that want to keep their own customers informed.
So the longer-term opportunity is not really “another newsletter.” It is a personalized research layer that sits between the open information ecosystem and the individual reader.
Competitive Differentiation
When asked what differentiates Avos from its competition, Roussos emphasized:
Most products in this space give you more inputs. Avos gives you one output.
RSS readers give you control over your sources, but you still have to read and synthesize the feed yourself. Mass newsletters remove that work, but you accept somebody else’s editorial agenda.
General AI assistants can produce a digest if you ask, but they are not built around a persistent, researched edition that shows up on a schedule in your inbox. And algorithmic feeds optimize for how long you stay, which is a goal in direct conflict with yours.
Avos combines reader-controlled sources and interests with agents that do the recurring research work, and it delivers the result as one finished edition rather than a stream. You define your information agenda; the software does the reading.
Future Goals
When discussing the company’s future goals, Roussos concluded:
The immediate goal is to prove that a personalized briefing can become a genuine daily habit: something readers open every morning because it saves them real time, not because it is novel.
From there, we want to expand the ways people receive and interact with their briefings, starting with mobile and building on what we have learned from Anchor Mode.
In parallel, we are developing Avos Embedded, so publishers, brokers and fintech companies can offer personalized briefings to their own audiences under their own brand.
More broadly, the vision is very simple: instead of one front page for millions of people, we think there can eventually be millions of front pages, each built around one person’s world.
