One person scanning culture before the rest of the industry wakes up.
Every morning at 7am, The Pattern scans 110+ sources across fashion, design, tech, brands, music, art, and lifestyle — and tells you what matters before the rest of the industry catches up. A sharp, opinionated 5-minute read and listen.
We're not the news. We're the pattern behind it.
Our engine — CultureTerminal — continuously monitors 110+ RSS feeds across eight culture domains. Each article is scored on a Culture Index across five factors: relevance, freshness, source authority, brand signal, and depth.
Every morning, AI reads the top-scoring articles and finds the pattern: the lead story, five signals worth knowing, the hidden connection across today's coverage, one emerging trend to watch, and three conversation starters for your day.
The audio edition — under 5 minutes, packed with insight — uses neural voice synthesis so you can get your culture briefing on the commute.
110+ publications across fashion, design, technology, brands, music, art, food, and lifestyle — scored and ranked daily across three tiers of authority.
Our source mix is proprietary. We don’t publish the full list because the curation IS the product. What we can tell you:
Sources are weighted by authority, freshness, and signal quality. The mix evolves.
The Culture Pulse (0-100) measures how culturally significant a given day is. It's not random — the score is derived from four factors:
The Pattern is also a daily podcast. Under 5 minutes of culture intelligence, every morning. Subscribe on your preferred platform:
Copy the RSS URL into Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or any podcast app.
The Pattern is a Cultural Capital Labs project, built by Mike Litman — strategy director, culture obsessive, builder. The entire product, from data pipeline to design system to voice synthesis, is built and run by one person.