Frequently asked questions
Everything you want to know about Meriana.
How briefings work, what you can track, how delivery schedules work, and what it costs. Can't find your answer? Email us.
The basics
What is Meriana?
Meriana is an AI news briefing service. You tell it which topics to track — a competitor, an industry, a market, a policy area, anything — and it researches the live web on your schedule and emails you a concise, structured briefing. Every briefing includes source trust ratings, sentiment, and contradiction flags so you can see where reports disagree.
How is Meriana different from Google Alerts?
Google Alerts sends you raw links whenever a keyword matches, with no analysis, no deduplication, and no quality filter. Meriana reads the coverage for you and delivers a synthesized briefing: what actually happened, which sources are reliable, where reports contradict each other, and what the overall sentiment is. You get answers, not a pile of links to open.
How is Meriana different from ChatGPT or Perplexity?
Chat assistants are pull tools — you have to remember to ask, and each session starts from scratch. Meriana is a push tool: it runs your research automatically on a schedule and delivers the results to your inbox. It's built for ongoing monitoring of topics that keep evolving, not one-off questions.
What can I track with Meriana?
Anything you can describe in a phrase: companies, competitors, industries, technologies, regulations, markets, people, sports teams, local news, scientific fields. Specific topics work best — "EU AI Act enforcement" will produce a sharper briefing than just "AI."
Briefings & delivery
How often will I receive briefings?
You choose. Briefings can arrive daily (with optional day-of-week selection), weekly on the days you pick, or monthly. Each topic can also have its own schedule that overrides your global setting, and Pro plans support up to three briefings per day.
What's inside a briefing?
Each briefing contains key developments as concise bullets with source citations and trust ratings, a sentiment read on the coverage, contradiction flags where credible sources disagree, and a short narrative roundup. You can choose a quick-scan or deep-dive depth setting.
Where does Meriana get its information?
Meriana researches the live public web at the moment your briefing is generated — news sites, trade publications, official announcements, and more. Every bullet cites its source, and each source carries a trust rating. You can also blocklist domains you don't want and add keyword filters to exclude or highlight specific angles.
Can I get breaking news alerts between briefings?
Yes. On the Pro plan you can enable breaking-news alerts per topic. Meriana checks for major developments throughout the day and emails you only when something genuinely significant happens — at most one alert per topic every 12 hours.
Can I read past briefings?
Yes. Every briefing is saved to your archive, where you can search, re-read, share a public link, or track sentiment trends over time. Your archive is also available as an RSS feed, and you can export new briefings to other tools via webhooks.
Plans & billing
Is there a free plan?
Yes. The Free plan lets you track one topic with daily briefings, plus the archive and RSS feed — free forever, no credit card required. Paid plans start at $4.99/month for 10 topics.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. There are no contracts and no cancellation fees. Cancel from your account settings whenever you like — you keep full access to paid features until the end of your billing period, then your account moves to the Free plan.
Do you offer annual billing?
Yes. Starter and Pro both offer annual plans priced at ten months for the year — effectively two months free compared to paying monthly.
Account & privacy
Do I need to install anything?
No. Meriana runs entirely in the cloud and delivers to your email inbox. There's nothing to install, and briefings arrive whether or not you ever open the app.
Is my data private?
Your tracked topics, briefings, and account details are private to your account — other users can't see them. Like most free-to-use services, we may share certain information (such as hashed identifiers and usage data) with advertising partners as described in our Privacy Policy, and you can opt out of that sale or sharing at any time from your account settings or via a Global Privacy Control signal. You can also delete your account whenever you like, and we'll delete or anonymise your personal information as set out in the Privacy Policy.