A fully autonomous AI news system that monitors the biggest Tech & AI stories, generates editorial content, produces daily video Reels with voiceover, and publishes automatically — 5 carousels + 1 Reel per day, every day.
The system has editorial memory, evaluates its own output before posting, learns from Instagram analytics, and detects viral trends in real time. No journalists. No editors. No manual work. Built by one person, running on a VPS.
Monitors 20+ Tech & AI sources. AI filters select only the most impactful stories, cross-checking editorial memory to avoid repeating topics already covered.
RSS + RAG dedupClaude AI generates 5 editorial slides per story. Content is scored by a second AI instance before rendering. Below threshold — regenerated automatically.
Claude · LLM-as-judgeFlux AI generates a unique cinematic background image for every post. No stock photos — every image is original and matched to the story.
Flux AI · fal.aiPuppeteer renders pixel-perfect HTML/CSS templates to JPEG at Instagram resolution (1080x1350). 5 slides + 1 story per post, all in under 60 seconds.
Puppeteer + HTML/CSSA second Claude instance reviews content for factual accuracy, source credibility, and editorial quality before publishing. Three rejections triggers an alert.
Claude · AI GatekeeperPosts go live on Instagram automatically via Meta Graph API — carousel + story in one operation, 5 times daily at 8, 11, 14, 17 and 20h Sydney time.
Instagram Graph APIEvery morning at 9am Sydney time, the system finds the most trending AI/Tech story, writes a punchy 20-second script, generates a cinematic background, records a voiceover, renders the video — and sends it to Telegram for one-tap approval.
The system does not just automate — it thinks. Six intelligence layers make @thenowbrief editorially aware, self-correcting, and performance-driven.
Before selecting any story, the AI reads everything published in the last 7 days — carousels and reels combined. Topics are never repeated. Angles are always fresh.
Vector Memory · Cross-formatEvery script is scored 0–100 by a second Claude instance before rendering. Hook strength, clarity, relevance, narrative flow. Score below 60 — auto-regenerated.
Claude · Self-evaluationReal Instagram metrics — reach, saves, shares — are fetched every 6 hours and injected back into the RAG context. The AI learns what performs and shifts editorial decisions accordingly.
Instagram API · 6h cycleA dedicated agent monitors Reddit and Hacker News every 30 minutes. When a story hits viral velocity and has not been covered — the system generates and posts automatically.
Reddit · HN · Auto-postA shared lock file coordinates all posting processes. Only one post can be in-flight at a time. Duplicate posting is structurally impossible regardless of how many agents are running.
Lock file · Race condition fixA cron agent runs every 5 minutes checking for container failures, port conflicts, expired tokens, missed posting slots, and stale reels. Most issues are resolved before any human notices.
Cron · 12 health checks@thenowbrief is more than a project — it's a proof of concept for what one person can ship with modern AI tooling.
The same pipeline can power 10, 100 or 1000 accounts across sports, finance, tech, entertainment — in any language. One codebase, infinite channels.
A new account costs $7/month in infrastructure. AI API costs are fractions of a cent per post. Revenue potential from sponsorships and brand deals scales without cost.
The system learns from its own analytics. Every post that performs well shifts future content decisions. The longer it runs, the smarter it gets — without retraining.
Designed, built and deployed solo — with zero prior software engineering training. Proof of concept is live, posting daily, fully automated, self-healing.