Orbit creates dashboards for topics that are covered across multiple sources. A dashboard can include updates, facts, timing, maps, charts, videos, trackers, and source links.
No. Orbit is useful for any topic where several sources need to be followed together: launches, elections, outages, conferences, company announcements, public events, live sports-adjacent news, markets, and more.
No. Orbit helps you read faster. The source links remain important, especially when the topic is live, contested, technical, financial, legal, medical, political, or safety-related.
No. Large language models help create the dashboard, but Orbit also uses smaller custom ML models and classifiers for source and evidence tasks. These help identify useful passages, live-update structure, noisy pages, relevant media, and source quality patterns.
Orbit looks for sources that are direct, current, readable, and useful for the requested topic. It prefers pages with concrete evidence over broad topic hubs or thin pages.
For more detail, see How Orbit Chooses Sources.
The score helps rank sources for this dashboard. It is not a truth percentage.
A higher score usually means the source is more useful for the topic. A lower score may still be accurate; it may just be less direct, older, thinner, duplicated, or less central.
When available, these labels give broad context about a source domain. They are not guarantees about a specific article and they are not endorsements.
A source may be missing because it was not found, failed to load, had little readable text, duplicated stronger coverage, was too old, or was less relevant than other pages.
It may contain direct evidence, local reporting, an official update, a live map, a tracker, a stream, or details that other sources do not have.
Open unfamiliar sources before relying on them.
Live topics change. Newer, clearer, or more direct sources can appear. Older sources can become stale. A live blog can become more useful as it adds entries.
Yes. Sources can be wrong, early reports can change, pages can be misread, and dashboards can miss context. Use the source links for anything important.
Orbit tries to keep dashboard claims tied to source material, but no automated product is perfect. Check original sources when accuracy matters.
A reference is a source link or source-backed item that helps support part of the dashboard. References can point to articles, live pages, official pages, trackers, images, videos, maps, or supporting context.
Some sources contain structured live updates. When they do, Orbit can turn those into a feed. The first page of entries is included in the dashboard response, and additional feed pages are requested from the backend when you navigate the feed. If the sources do not contain a clear timeline, the dashboard should not force one.
The sources may only support a few useful facts. A smaller dashboard is better than filling space with weak or unsupported components.
Some topics are easier to follow through a livestream, status page, map, tracker, or relevant account. These can be useful sources even when they are not traditional articles.
Open the sources. Compare at least two independent sources. Check timestamps and uncertainty. Prefer official or primary sources for direct status, and independent reporting for context.
Some parts of Orbit may require signing in, especially creating, saving, or managing dashboards. Public or shared dashboards may be viewable without the same account controls.
Orbit currently supports email/password login, password reset, account creation, and Google sign-in through Firebase Authentication. Available options can change.
Some dashboards may be published as public or featured dashboards, and some routes may be shareable by link. If a dashboard is public or shared, people with access may see its title, content, source links, source details, and embedded media.
Avoid putting private information into prompts, dashboard titles, or source URLs unless the dashboard is meant for that audience.
Orbit may collect product analytics and operational events to understand usage, diagnose failures, improve reliability, and prevent abuse.
Public pages use a cookieless analytics mode. Authenticated app analytics only uses persistent PostHog identity after analytics consent is accepted; rejecting analytics opts out of capture and clears the stored PostHog distinct ID. Session recording is disabled.
See Privacy.
Orbit may use third-party services for authentication, hosting, analytics, search, AI processing, storage, embeds, maps, videos, source fetching, and favicons. The exact services may change over time.
In flows that support source URLs, yes. This is useful when you already know the official page, live blog, tracker, or article set you want followed.
The page may block automated access, require login, rely on JavaScript, return non-HTML content, time out, redirect unexpectedly, or contain little readable text.
Sometimes, but snippets are lighter support than pages Orbit can read directly. Open the linked source before relying on a snippet-backed detail.
A good live source has real update entries, timestamps or sequence, and meaningful update text. A page is not automatically useful just because it says "live".
The source may be old, the topic may include background material, or a newer source may not have been available when the dashboard was created. Check the source timestamps.
No. Use Orbit as a reading aid. Consult primary sources and qualified professionals for high-stakes decisions.