Backstory by nextcept

BackStory is an intelligent platform that transforms the way users engage with news and articles. By leveraging advanced AI, BackStory allows anyone to submit a URL and instantly receive a detailed summary, key topics, and a structured breakdown of the article’s core content.

Key Features

• Instant Article Insights: Submit any article URL and BackStory delivers a concise summary, highlights main topics, and provides a clear overview of the article’s significance.
• Automated Topic Generation: Our AI extracts multiple underlying topics from every submitted story, recursively analyzes them, and generates full educational articles = "Backstories" for deeper exploration.
• Rabbit hole style learning: Users can navigate through parent and child stories, following threads of related content and diving deeper into the context behind the headlines.
• Daily Personalized News: BackStory automatically fetches top news stories daily based on general or personalized prompts, making it easy to keep up with current events tailored to your interests.
• Seamless User Experience: Clean interface, intuitive navigation, and integrations with modern authentication and payment systems (Google login, Stripe).

Who Is It For?

BackStory is designed for curious readers, educators, researchers, and professionals who want to cut through the noise, understand the “why” behind the news, and see how stories connect beneath the surface.

The BackStory Advantage

Deeper Context: See not just what’s happening, but the underlying threads and related ideas that tie stories together.

Time Savings: Skip the clickbait and get straight to what matters most in any article.

Discovery: Find new angles, related stories, and emergent trends effortlessly, powered by recursive AI analysis.