Free
Try Hilo with a few briefings a month.
$0 Free
Now open to everyone
Type a question. Get a ten-minute briefing in your podcast app.
Hilo turns a question you typed into a researched, narrated briefing — about ten minutes, delivered to the podcast app you already use. Enough to decide whether the question is worth your weekend.
Free to start. No card to listen to your first briefings.
Why Hilo
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Start from a question
Ask it the way you'd ask a colleague. No format to learn, no settings to tune before you get an answer.
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Ten minutes, not an afternoon
Every briefing orients you on what's known, what's contested, and what's still open — short enough for the walk to coffee.
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Where you already listen
Briefings arrive in a private feed you add to Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or Pocket Casts. There's no new app to open.
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The reading is done for you
Sources are gathered, weighed, and narrated into a script. You listen; the legwork already happened.
How it works
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You write a question
One question, however you'd ask it. "What's the state of small language models on commodity GPUs?" works fine.
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Hilo researches and narrates
A planner sketches an outline. Researchers go answer the questions. A synthesizer turns the briefs into a script. A narrator reads it. Takes about an hour.
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The briefing arrives in your podcast app
You subscribe to a private RSS feed once. New briefings show up where you already listen. They expire on their own — no backlog to manage.
Plans
Every plan delivers briefings to your private feed. They differ in how many you get each month, and a few extras. Start free and pull the thread.
Personal
For a regular listening habit.
Monthly
Yearly billed once a year
- Fuller, more expressive narration
- Hilo draws on your earlier briefings
- Download a briefing's audio
Pro
For frequent use and finer control.
Monthly
Yearly billed once a year
- Fuller, more expressive narration
- Hilo draws on your earlier briefings
- Download a briefing's audio
- Set how long briefings stay in your feed
- Preview a voice before you choose it
- Tune how each briefing is composed
- See how a briefing was put together
Start free; paid plans open up as you need more briefings.
Briefings are researched and narrated by automated agents from the question you submit. Hilo orients; it does not advise — what's contested is kept, not smoothed over.