Introducing Intake: The News Reader Feedly Should Have Been
Today we're announcing Intake — an AI-powered news reader built for power users, teams, and the workflows they actually use. It's the product we've wanted for years, and the one we got tired of waiting for someone else to build.
If you use RSS, you probably use Feedly. And if you use Feedly, you've probably noticed something: the product has been slowly hollowing out for individual users while pivoting hard toward enterprise threat intelligence. AI summaries? That's $150/year. Keyword filtering? Pay up. Your saved articles? They disappear after 30 days whether you've read them or not.
We think that's backwards. The features that make a news reader actually useful — AI summaries, keyword filtering, automation, a real API — shouldn't be locked behind enterprise contracts. They should be table stakes.
So we're building Intake with a different philosophy: every user gets the good stuff.
AI That's Actually Included — Morning Brief, article summaries, story clustering, and AI monitors are all available on the free tier. No enterprise contract required. We believe AI features are infrastructure, not premium upsells.
Your Articles, Forever — Nothing in Intake expires. When you save an article, it stays until you decide to delete it. Your reading history is yours. This sounds obvious, but try finding a two-month-old saved article in Feedly.
A Real API + SDK — Feedly's API lets you read data out, barely. Intake ships with a full read/write REST API, official JavaScript and Python SDKs, webhooks with delivery logs and replay. If you want to build a monitoring pipeline, a research tool, or a custom integration, you don't need to ask permission.
No-Code Automation Built In — Visual if/then rules that run inside Intake. When a keyword matches, add to a list, fire a Slack message, or trigger a webhook. Three Zapier zaps replaced by one automation rule you set up in 30 seconds.
Newsletter Ingestion — Every Intake account gets a dedicated @intake.bio email address. Forward your newsletters there and they show up alongside your feeds. Your newsletters leave your inbox and enter your workflow.
Migrate From Feedly in 60 Seconds — Upload your Feedly OPML export and Intake rebuilds your collections, suggests improvements, and generates your first Morning Brief before you finish your coffee.
We're not building this to compete with Feedly on their new turf — enterprise threat intelligence for Fortune 500 security teams. We're building it for the individual power users and small teams that Feedly left behind. Researchers, analysts, developers, journalists, and anyone whose workflow depends on staying on top of information.
Intake is currently in development with early access coming soon. The waitlist is open now at intake.bio, and the first 500 members get free Pro for 3 months at launch plus direct access to the team to shape the roadmap.
We're Axis Labs Software — a privacy-first, indie studio that believes tools should be built with obsessive attention to detail and zero bloat. Intake is our next product, and we're building it in the open.
Join the waitlist at intake.bio and follow us on X @AxisLabTech for updates.