Fold News
Everything worth knowing. Nothing worth scrolling.
What is Fold?
A structured discovery layer for news across the world down to your own city. It consolidates overlapping reports into single, unified event cards, filtering out modern digital noise.
The Philosophy
Modern news consumption is broken by engagement-driven algorithms and infinite feeds. Fold serves as a broad discovery layer sorted by topic and regions using news intelligence.
Zero ads. Zero algorithms.
The Engine
News Intelligence
Extracts topics, regions, and full data analysis from matching coverage, grounding the intelligence by original source URLs.
Fold Air
Automated regional audio briefings synthesized directly from published stories.
Architecture
1. Ingestion
Discovery (RSS & BigQuery)
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Normalize & Dedup
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2. Processing
Cluster Assignment
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Enrich & Score
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3. NLP & LLM Analysis
Information Extraction (Topics, Regions, Scores & Summaries)
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4. Storage & Serving
Storage (D1 & R2)
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Magazine & Fold Air
Infrastructure & Stack
Supabase (PostgreSQL, Auth, Storage)
Sarvam (TTS)
Vercel
Namecheap
GDELT BigQuery
Google & Direct RSS
Cloudflare D1 (Warm Storage)
Cloudflare R2 (Cold Storage)
Cloudflare DNS
Gemma4 & Qwen 3.5 4B
Cloudflare CDN
Note: The full architecture listed above is not deployed to public. A scaled-down version is made public to protect the proprietary aggregation engine and avoid unauthorized scraping of licensed news sources.