Guides · August 29, 2026 · By Hivewire
How Hivewire works: a focused news feed
Hivewire organizes reporting around a profile you can inspect and change. You describe what you follow, review the topics Hivewire proposes, and save the ones that belong in your feed. From there, you can adjust the mix directly instead of waiting for a recommendation system to infer your interests from clicks.
Start with a plain-language profile
Open Your Hivewire and describe the responsibility, subject, or situation you need to follow. “Track the companies, regulation, energy constraints, and chip supply issues affecting our AI product plan” gives the profile builder more to work with than “technology news.” Hivewire proposes matching topics and shows them before you save anything.
The saved description remains editable. Hivewire+ members can regenerate the topic list from a revised description or keep the current topics and update the description alone. The description also supplies context for Smart Briefing.
A basic account can save up to three topics, each at the More level. Hivewire+ adds unlimited topics and the full Focus, More, Less, and Avoid controls.
Control the mix directly
Hivewire+ provides four topic levels. Focus prioritizes a topic near the top of the feed. More increases how often it appears. Less keeps a topic mainly when it is highly relevant to the rest of the profile. Avoid tells Hivewire to do its best to hide stories about that topic.
The profile editor also handles controls that topic weights cannot express. Geographic Focus prioritizes a country or region. Publisher Preferences lets Hivewire+ members prefer or avoid individual outlets. Story Freshness changes how long important stories remain near the top, with Breaking, Daily, and Relaxed settings for different reading habits.
These controls are saved as explicit preferences. Hivewire also accepts thumbs-up and thumbs-down feedback on individual events. It does not use reading history, time on page, or click behavior to infer what you want.
Read an event across its sources
When Hivewire identifies several articles as coverage of the same development, it groups them into one event. The event overview establishes the shared facts, while the Sources section lists the underlying articles and can be sorted from latest to oldest.
The grouping is intentionally narrower than a subject page. A market reaction, court challenge, or later policy response can remain a separate event because it adds a new development. Top Stories can also place related events in a storyline so you can move through the sequence without collapsing every update into one summary.
Use the overview to orient yourself, then open the source when a quote, filing, local detail, or disputed claim matters. Hivewire organizes the reporting and sends the reader back to it.
Search the event archive
Search works across Hivewire events rather than a single publication. Signed-in readers can run keyword searches and limit results to the last hour, day, week, or month. Hivewire+ adds Smart Search for questions such as “how rate decisions are affecting housing,” where relevant coverage may use different words.
Search results also surface related topics. Use those links to move from a specific query into a topic timeline, or open the News Map to inspect which subjects are receiving coverage now.
Configure the daily briefing
Hivewire+ includes a daily Smart Briefing built from the same profile. You can choose a quick headline format or a narrative version with more context, set the length from 4 to 12 stories, and decide whether to include opinion and analysis.
The briefing can arrive by email or, in the native app, by push notification. It is a triage tool for deciding which events deserve more attention. Open the linked reporting before relying on a consequential detail.
Tune the feed with evidence
A basic account can start with three topics tied to one active responsibility. Hivewire+ members can begin with three to six, then use weights to separate the subjects they cannot miss from useful background.
When an event does not belong, use thumbs down and identify the cause. The topic may be too broad, a publisher may be unhelpful, or the freshness setting may not match how often you read. Change one control and watch the next few days of coverage. Use thumbs up when Hivewire finds the kind of connection you want more often.
Hivewire+ members can bookmark events that will matter later. Search is better for recovering a broad subject; bookmarks are better for keeping the particular decision, announcement, or early report you already know you will revisit.