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Lately.ai vs. AI Lately: two different companies

Lately.ai is social media software from Lately, Inc. AI Lately, at ailately.com, is a news publication about the people who build AI. Here is how to tell the two apart, and which one you were looking for.

Lately.ai is software that turns long videos, podcasts and articles into social media posts. AI Lately, at ailately.com, is a news publication that reads artificial intelligence through the people who build it. Two companies and two products share one word. This page sets them side by side so you land on the one you meant.

In one sentence

Lately.ai sells a tool. AI Lately publishes news. That one sentence settles most visits, so start there. Lately, Inc. and AI Lately have separate owners, separate staff and separate code.

From Stone Ridge, New York, Lately, Inc. runs lately.ai. Its product reads a brand's past social posts, learns what performed, and then cuts new long-form content into posts for LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Marketers, agencies and franchise networks pay for it by the month. Its website, read on Oct. 23, 2026, describes the company as enterprise social content management software.

AI Lately is an independent newsroom founded by Ryan Elliott Dennis on Sept. 4, 2026. It covers the artificial intelligence industry through hires, departures, filings and papers, and reads each one as a sign of strategy. Readers come for the articles, the six columns, the Signal board of verified people moves, and a membership called Pro. The site lives at ailately.com, the handle is @ailately on X, and the only email is editor@ailately.com.

So a marketer who wants dozens of posts out of one webinar wants Lately.ai. A founder, recruiter or operator who wants to know who just joined OpenAI, and what that hire buys, wants AI Lately. The rest of this page gives you the detail behind each half of that sentence.

On this page

Why the two get mixed up

The mix-up starts with the word "lately" and the two letters in front of it.

Lately.ai puts "AI" at the end, as its domain suffix. AI Lately puts "AI" at the front, as the first word of its name. Say either one out loud and you hear the same two sounds in a different order. Type either one into a search box and you type the same seven letters, "l-a-t-e-l-y" plus "ai", with the dot in a different place.

Search engines make it worse. On Oct. 23, 2026, a Google search for the single word "ailately" produced the prompt "Did you mean: lately". Google's spelling model had seen the word "lately" millions of times and the word "ailately" only as a domain name, so it read the brand as a typo. The same search produced an AI Overview that described AI Lately correctly. Then it added a note: if you meant Lately.ai, the social media marketing platform, that is a separate tool. Google itself felt the need to disambiguate.

A third name sometimes joins them in that note. AiTelly is a YouTube channel that makes 3D engineering animations. Its only link to either company is the sound of its name.

The two companies also sit near each other in time. Lately, Inc. says it has served businesses for over a decade, so its name has a decade of pages behind it. AI Lately launched in September 2026, so its name has weeks. A new name beside an old one gets read as the old one until the web catches up.

AI Lately is the one spelling its name in full on every page for that reason. Each page's footer carries "ailately.com"; on X the handle is @ailately, on LinkedIn the page is AI Lately, and on YouTube the channel is @AILately. Every mention teaches the spelling as a word rather than a slip.

Lately.ai, in its own terms

Content repurposing is Lately.ai's product. The description that follows comes from the company's own website as it read on Oct. 23, 2026, and the company can change any part of it at any time.

Product. You give Lately a long piece of content, such as a blog post, podcast episode or webinar recording. The software returns dozens of short social posts drawn from it, each sized and worded for a given channel. From audio it makes a transcript, posts and matching audiograms, and from video a transcript, posts and matching clips.

Method. Lately calls the first step a brand's social content "DNA". The software reads the brand's own social analytics and finds the patterns of words, ideas and grammar that earned engagement before. It then builds what the company calls a Voice Model for that brand, and the model learns further from each thumbs up, thumbs down or edit a user makes.

Kately. In 2026 the company introduced Kately, which it describes as a chat-based social media agent. A user talks to Kately in plain language about what to post, and the agent drafts and schedules.

Channels. The software publishes to LinkedIn personal and company pages, X, Facebook company pages, Instagram business accounts and YouTube. It also connects to Hootsuite accounts. Results can be downloaded as a CSV spreadsheet for any channel it lacks a direct connection to.

Languages. Lately generates results from long-form text, audio or video in German, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch, with more available on request.

Who it serves. The company's pages name franchise networks, financial advisers and brokers, marketing agencies, healthcare and pharma marketing teams, schools and campuses, newsrooms spreading their own stories, and executive thought leaders. One thread runs through them: a team that needs many people or many regions to post often while sounding like one brand.

Plans. The pricing page describes three tiers. A limited plan serves individuals and micro-businesses, and an advanced plan serves influencers, growing businesses and agencies. An enterprise plan the company calls Enterprisely syndicates content to unlimited employee or brand accounts. Prices change, so read them on lately.ai rather than here.

Company. Lately, Inc. of Stone Ridge, New York holds the site's copyright. Its how-it-works page says a cofounder named Kate was a Sirius/XM radio DJ broadcasting to 20 million listeners a day. She wrote commercials, and she took her ideas about the written and spoken word to Walmart before the prototype for Lately was built. The company says it has generated attention for more than 20,000 businesses over more than a decade.

Its own comparison. Lately.ai publishes a page comparing itself with ChatGPT. That page argues that a voice model trained on a brand's own engagement data beats a general prompt tool for social copy. The point of mentioning it here is that Lately.ai competes with writing assistants and scheduling tools, which places it in the software market and well away from journalism.

AI Lately, the publication

News is AI Lately's product. Everything on it is written to be read, and the thing it reads is the AI industry's people.

The thesis. AI is about people, and about what they have been up to lately. Hires, departures, promotions, papers and filings carry a strategic message months before a press release does. Track the people and you know where a company is heading before it says so. That idea sits in the name and in every section.

Founding. Ryan Elliott Dennis founded AI Lately and published its first issue on Sept. 4, 2026, and he is its Founder and Editor. He writes the daily opinion column, sets the editorial standards and signs every correction. Kelly Dennis is Co-Editor and Lead Technical Analyst and bylines the Technology column. The editorial standards were written before the first issue, so the rules existed before anything was at stake.

Readers. AI Lately writes for a working professional whose job now includes having a view on AI, though AI sits outside their training. That person might lead marketing at a 40-person firm, run an agency, or hold a product or strategy role. They read on a phone between meetings, five minutes at a time, and they are tired of padded posts. Experts are welcome one layer down, in the data and the sources.

A visit. The front page lists the newest pieces. Six columns each carry one reader and one promise. The Signal board lists every AI hire, exit, board seat, release and event on the record, with a source and a date on each. AI Right Now, at /rn, updates every four hours with the stories people are talking about. A weekly comic runs every Sunday. Indexes of people, companies and AI agents tie the pieces together.

Cost. Reading the articles, the columns, the comic and the last two weeks of the Signal is free. AI Lately Pro is a membership that adds a weekly brief, a monthly live session with the editor, the full Signal archive and the full Upcoming calendar. The price is on the Pro page.

Commitments. Facts read as facts, and interpretation reads as interpretation and says so. Quotations are verbatim. Each number appears in a sentence and in a chart. Photos are ones the site has the right to show, hosted on the site itself. Corrections are published in the open with a date. The publication holds zero equity, tokens or advisory positions at any company it covers.

Addresses. The site is ailately.com, and the X account is @ailately. On LinkedIn the company page is AI Lately, and on YouTube the channel is @AILately. Every email, from a tip to a correction, goes to editor@ailately.com. A sister publication, CryptoLately at cryptolately.com, covers crypto the same way under the same editor.

Side by side

The table gives the twelve differences that matter most, and the paragraphs after it explain each row.

Lately.ai AI Lately (ailately.com)
What it is Software A news publication
Who makes it Lately, Inc., Stone Ridge, New York AI Lately, edited by Ryan Elliott Dennis
What you get Social posts made from your content Articles, columns, a board of people moves, a comic, a membership
Who pays Marketing teams, agencies, franchises Readers who join Pro
How you pay A monthly plan A membership; most reading is free
What goes in Your blog posts, podcasts, videos, analytics Public filings, papers, announcements, press of record
What comes out Posts for LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube Pieces about who moved where, and what it means
Cadence On demand, whenever you upload Two planned stories a day, a weekly Signal, updates every four hours
The people in it Your brand's voice The AI industry's hires, departures and founders
Since More than a decade, by its own account Sept. 4, 2026
Address lately.ai ailately.com
Handle Lately's own accounts @ailately on X, @AILately on YouTube, AI Lately on LinkedIn

What it is. Lately.ai is a thing you log into and use. AI Lately is a thing you read. One is a tool with a dashboard and a billing page. The other is a publication with bylines, datelines and a corrections log.

Who makes it. Lately, Inc. is a software company in the Hudson Valley of New York. AI Lately is a newsroom with a masthead of two editors and software that drafts one report a day under their rules. The two share zero owners, staff, investors or code.

What you get. Lately.ai hands back posts you can schedule. AI Lately hands back understanding: who joined which lab, what that lab is now able to do, and what a reader in a given niche should do about it.

Who pays. Lately.ai bills the marketing budget. AI Lately asks a reader to join Pro when the weekly brief and the archive earn it. Reading the daily pieces costs a reader zero dollars.

Inputs. Lately.ai works on your own material. AI Lately works on the public record: Department of Labor disclosure files, SEC filings, state WARN notices, public job boards, company newsrooms, arXiv and the press of record.

Outputs. Lately.ai returns copy in your brand's voice. AI Lately returns a sourced piece in the house voice, with two charts, a licensed photo and a list of sources at the end.

Cadence. Lately.ai runs when you ask it to. AI Lately runs on a calendar: an editorial plan dates two stories a day, the Signal publishes weekly, and AI Right Now updates every four hours.

The people in it. Lately.ai's people are your own team and the brand voice it learns. AI Lately's people are the industry's: a researcher who left one lab for another, the chief financial officer a startup just hired, and a board member who resigned.

Since. Lately, Inc. describes a decade of operation. AI Lately published its first issue on Sept. 4, 2026, which is why the two names still collide in search.

Address and handle. The addresses differ by one dot and one word order. Lately.ai is one domain. AI Lately's domain spells the name as one word, ailately.com, and its handles repeat that spelling.

Which one do you want?

Match your situation to the lines below. Each one names the site and the exact page to open.

A webinar you recorded should become twenty LinkedIn posts. Lately.ai is built for that task, and its how-it-works page explains the upload.

Social accounts for a franchise network or a team of advisers are yours to run. Lately.ai names franchises and financial advisers among the groups it serves.

A client asked what you make of OpenAI's new hire and you had missed it. Open AI Lately's Signal at ailately.com/signal, filter by the company, and read the move with its source and date.

Recruiting AI researchers means knowing who moved this week. AI Lately's Talent column at ailately.com/columns/talent and the weekly Signal brief were built for you.

The budget is yours, and you need to know what a model costs and who gets paid. Read AI Lately's Money & Finance column at ailately.com/columns/money.

Picking AI tools for real work calls for a fair comparison. AI Lately's Products column does that comparison, and Lately.ai is itself the kind of product it compares.

Policy, security or legal is your desk, and you need to know which rules reach your company. Rules & Risk, AI Lately's column for those leads, tracks which rules arrive and by when.

Writing, design, music or film is your work, and AI is changing who gets paid for it. Arts & Media, AI Lately's column for creative professionals, follows the money in that change.

Three minutes a day by email is all the time you have. Todai, AI Lately's daily email, is in early access on the newsletter page.

Your child asks about robots. AI Lately's Sunday comic at ailately.com/comics is drawn for kids and the grown-ups beside them.

Scheduling posts is the job. Lately.ai, or any scheduling tool, does it. AI Lately publishes articles and leaves scheduling to the tools built for it.

There is a tip to read, a correction to make or a quote to check. Write to editor@ailately.com, which reaches the editor directly.

A tour of AI Lately

Readers who arrive here looking for Lately.ai often stay once they see what the publication holds. This section walks the site the way a first visit does, top to bottom.

Articles and the six columns

Every reported piece on AI Lately belongs to one of six columns. Each column was built for one reader and makes that reader one promise.

Talent is for recruiters, founders, and anyone weighing a move. Its promise: know who moved, and what it signals, before the press release. Hiring and labor stories live here.

Technology is for product leaders and builders choosing models. Its promise: understand what a new model changes for your work in five minutes. Frontier models, agent infrastructure, research and compute live here, under Kelly Dennis's byline.

Money & Finance is for operators and investors budgeting for AI. Its promise: know what AI costs, who pays, and who gets paid. Capital, enterprise adoption and the crossover with web3 live here, beside a market board of public AI companies.

Rules & Risk is for policy, security and legal leads. Its promise: know which rules and risks reach your company, and by when. Policy, safety and geopolitics live here.

Products is for professionals picking AI tools for real work. Its promise: pick the right AI tool for the job, with a fair comparison. Applied and consumer AI live here.

Arts & Media is for creative and media professionals deciding how to use, license or fight AI. Its promise: know how AI changes who gets paid for creative work.

An editorial plan dates two researched stories a day from Oct. 15 to Dec. 14, 2026, and breaking news can take a slot. Every piece runs 1,000 to 1,500 words and carries two charts or more, plus photos by length. Each ends with a numbered list of sources and tells the reader what to do with what they just read.

The Signal

This board gave the publication its reason to exist. It lists every AI hire, exit, board seat, release and event on the record, each with a source and a date, searchable and filterable by company and kind. Everyone can read the last two weeks. The full archive, back to the first entries, belongs to Pro members.

Each week the board becomes a brief. The Signal brief ranks the week's biggest moves and asks one question of each. What capability did this company just buy, and what does that imply about the next twelve months? A yearly roster ranks the biggest hires of the year so far.

Every entry carries one of three confidence labels. Confirmed means a company announcement, a regulatory filing or the person's own public statement. Reported means reputable press citing sources. Inferred means a pattern-based read, and the entry says so in plain words. An entry with a missing label gets rejected before it publishes.

AI Right Now

Speed lives at ailately.com/rn. AI Right Now updates every four hours with the AI stories people are searching for and posting about at that moment, each one checked and sourced before it goes up. The masthead's tagline switches with each update. A boy with an orange phone is its mascot.

Opinion and Analysis

The Opinion page carries Ryan Elliott Dennis's daily column. Each day takes one industry and opens with the hardest AI number on the wire that day. The Analysis page holds his standing essays, on inference costs, the agent economy, and who owns a career record. A featured guest piece from Kelly Dennis on AI in software testing sits beside them.

Upcoming

A dated calendar sits at ailately.com/upcoming. It lists every AI model launch, retirement, price floor, event and legal deadline with a date ahead, soonest first. Each row carries its stage and the source that set the date. The next seven days are open to every reader. Pro members see the rest of 2026 and 2027.

Drops

A drop is a release page. When a lab ships a model or a research system, AI Lately writes a dated page on it. The page says what shipped, who built it, and what the release note itself says. Recent drops cover releases from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Hugging Face and Nvidia.

Comics

Every Sunday a new comic strip runs at ailately.com/comics. It follows a curious boy and his robot friend through the ordinary moments of growing up beside a machine. The strip is drawn for kids and the grown-ups reading over their shoulders. Ryan Elliott Dennis posts it on LinkedIn as the Sunday Funnies. The same boy and robot stand in the footer of every page and lead back to the comics.

The newsletter and Pro

One email a day is on offer at the newsletter page. Todai, that daily email, is in early access. Each issue carries one story, one question with two sides, and three quick hits. It reads at a fifth-grade level and takes three minutes.

AI Lately Pro is the membership. Members get a tight weekly brief on what changed in AI that week, which companies and roles it touches, and three things worth acting on before Friday. They also get one live session a month with the editor, with recordings, plus the full Signal archive and the full Upcoming calendar. The current price is printed on the Pro page.

People, Companies and Agents

Three indexes tie the pieces together. The People index lists every person AI Lately has covered, with their latest move and the pieces that mention them. Every organization covered sits in the Companies index, each with a sourced descriptor and the pieces that name it. Each company page carries trackers of its hires and its departures. The Agents index lists every AI agent, workflow, plugin and skill the publication has covered, with its maker, its platform and a sourced descriptor.

Series and tools

The series page "2026 in Stories" reads the year's defining AI stories through the people who made them, and leads to the biggest hires of 2026 so far. A working tool sits at ailately.com/tools/search-checklist: the Search Checklist. It runs 89 checks on how well one web page earns a citation from AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Meta's assistant, and it writes a report you can copy.

For machines

Software reads the site too. AI Lately publishes llms.txt and llms-full.txt for language models, a JSON version of the Signal at /api/signal, an RSS feed at /feed.xml, and a sitemap. Quote with attribution and a link to the page you quoted.

AI Lately's method

Lately.ai's pages describe how its software works. This section describes how AI Lately's journalism works, because the method is the product.

Sources first

Every statistic, date, title and name traces to a source the writer opened. Primary sources come first. Department of Labor disclosure files for LCA and PERM filings show exact titles and wages by employer. SEC Form 8-K, Item 5.02, records executive appointments and departures at public companies within four business days. State WARN notices show contraction. Public job boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby show intent before execution. Company newsrooms and arXiv show what people chose to say and publish. The press of record supplies the rest, always with a link.

Each piece ends with a numbered sources list, and bracketed markers in the text point to specific entries. A paragraph shows each source's marker once, at the sentence it supports. Any claim the desk could verify only through a social network's profile pages stays out of the piece.

Facts, interpretation and quotation

A fact reads as a fact. An interpretation reads as an interpretation, with signposts such as "the filing implies" and "read as strategy". A departure gets reported as a destination and a date; the reason appears only when two independent sources or a document support it.

Every quotation is verbatim from a cited source, banned words and all. When a verbatim quote would clash with house style, the desk paraphrases with attribution and labels the paraphrase. Any piece that characterizes a company or a person adversely goes to them for comment before publication whenever a working contact exists.

Both sides, and a stated argument

From Oct. 21, 2026, every piece states its argument in its own frontmatter, and the headline states a finding the body proves with evidence from outside the claim. A piece that argues a point names who makes the case for and against, each in their own quoted words. The linter holds back a piece that is missing either.

Numbers in a sentence and in a chart

Every number a piece prints appears twice: in a sentence that says who acted and what it means, and in a chart. Articles dated from Sept. 24, 2026 carry two charts or more. A chart's title states its finding with a number, every number it draws traces to the piece's own text, and two colors or more earn a legend. Legibility comes first: when a reader finds a chart hard to read, the rule that would have caught it joins the contract.

Pictures that teach

Every story carries photos throughout, about one for every 400 words, framed in its column's look. Each comes from Wikimedia Commons or Openverse under a public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA license, with its credit and license on the page. The pick turns on what the picture helps the reader understand. AI Lately serves its own copy of every photo, so a page keeps working when the source is slow. Stock photography left the article bodies on Oct. 17, 2026.

Written to be read

Pieces dated from Oct. 11, 2026 read at a fifth- to eighth-grade level: one idea per sentence, an average under 14 words, and a longest sentence of 24. From Oct. 18, 2026 they also follow David Ogilvy's rules for writing. Paragraphs run four sentences at most, plain words replace jargon, and a "What to do" section gives one or two steps the reader can take. Every piece is read aloud before it ships, and the sentence the reader would stumble on gets split.

Personal data and independence

The personal data on this site stays within a short allowlist: name, role, employer, public source and date. Home addresses, personal emails, phone numbers, ages, nationalities, health information and family details stay off the site in every circumstance.

AI Lately holds zero equity, tokens, options or advisory positions at companies it covers, and the editor accepts zero gifts from them. Sponsors, when they arrive, will see an issue after publication. Coverage that costs the publication access to a company gets published anyway.

Corrections in the open

Errors get fixed fast and in public. A corrected piece carries a note describing the change and its date, and the corrections page keeps a permanent log. Once a year the editor publishes an accountability note listing what the publication got wrong. The address for all of it is editor@ailately.com.

How the pieces get made

People set the rules and sign the corrections. Software drafts some pieces, including the daily automated report, under those rules, and every piece clears the same style, chart, photo and source gates before it publishes. The editorial standards page describes the automated reports, and the editor can pull any automated piece at any time.

The names, letter by letter

Both names are built from the same ordinary adverb. "Lately" means recently, in the last little while. Lately, Inc. chose it a decade ago to say that its software keeps a brand current. AI Lately chose it in 2026 to say what the publication reads: what the people of AI have been up to lately. The word fits both jobs, which is the whole problem.

The two letters "AI" sit on opposite ends. In lately.ai the letters are a top-level domain. The .ai suffix belongs to Anguilla, a small island in the Caribbean. Its registry sells the ending to technology companies around the world because it reads as "artificial intelligence". Hundreds of AI startups use it. In AI Lately the letters are the first word of a name, and the domain ending is .com. The publication wanted its name to read as one phrase: "AI, lately".

Spelling the publication's domain as one word gives search engines a new token, "ailately", that belongs to this site alone. That is an asset over time and a cost at the start. A spelling model treats a token it has met a few thousand times as a probable typo of a token it has met billions of times. The fix is repetition in the open: the word in footers, in handles, in bylines and in pages like this one. Once the model has seen it enough, it trusts it.

Readers can help with one habit. When you type the address, type ailately.com in full. In a search box, put the space in: "AI Lately". Either one lands you here on the first try.

Who writes AI Lately

Two editors carry the masthead.

Ryan Elliott Dennis founded AI Lately and edits it. He writes the daily opinion column, sets the house standards, and signs every correction. His own site is ryandennis.io, and he posts the publication's work from his profiles on X, as @xryandennis, and on LinkedIn. He reads the industry through the people who build it, which is the publication's method in one sentence.

Kelly Dennis is Co-Editor and Lead Technical Analyst. She bylines the Technology column and turns the machinery of AI, cloud and emerging technology into analysis a board member and a build engineer can both act on. Her career centers on that translation: years of technical documentation, UX and content strategy, and reporting on frontier technology from blockchain markets to the modern software stack. She is Google-certified in UX design and trained at Hampton University.

Beside the two editors, software drafts under their standing rules. The editorial standards page explains how the daily automated report is made and how a reader can challenge any line of it.

Choosing what to cover

The standing thesis is the filter. A story earns a place when a person's choice drives it. Hires, departures, promotions, papers, filings, resignations and rounds led by a named investor all qualify. A product announcement earns a place when it tells the reader who built the thing and what the builders' moves say about where the company is going.

Five reader jobs shape the plan. The reader wants to catch up fast, to choose a product, and to weigh a claim. They also want to track people inside their own niche and to follow the money when a price or a deal touches their budget. Every piece serves at least one of those jobs by name.

An editorial plan dates 121 researched stories from Oct. 15 to Dec. 14, 2026, two a day. The desks write each story on its date and record in the piece's own file whether the plan held, was skipped, or was deferred. Breaking news can take a slot. Every peg in the plan is a tip until its page is opened and the claim is corroborated.

Ideas can come from anywhere, including other outlets, and those outlets are treated as tips. Every headline, structure, chart and photo is AI Lately's own, built from primary sources. When another outlet broke a story, the piece goes to the document the outlet cited and reads it directly.

Each piece then passes four gates before it publishes: house style, charts, photos, and the legal and structural guardrails. A piece that fails any one of them waits until it passes.

Reading a Signal entry

A Signal entry is one move, recorded in a fixed shape. The example below is a real entry from the week of Oct. 20, 2026, and every field is public on the board and in the JSON feed.

The headline reads "Garrett Schlesinger joins Kalepa as chief technology officer". Garrett Schlesinger is the person. Kalepa is the destination, in the field called "to", and Chief Technology Officer is the new title. Affirm is the origin, in the field called "from", where his title was Vice President of Software Engineering. Oct. 22, 2026 is the date, "hire" is the type, and "enterprise" is the sector.

Two fields carry the trust. The confidence label is "confirmed", because the source is a company announcement. That source is a press release carried by The National Law Review, with its title and link recorded in full, so a reader can open it and check.

One field carries the read. The entry's "read" line says that Schlesinger leaves twelve years of building Affirm's underwriting systems to run engineering at an insurance AI company. That line is the publication's interpretation, and it is marked as such by living in its own field.

Read a week of entries this way and a pattern appears. Some labs are hiring sales chiefs, some are losing safety researchers, and some startups just bought a chief AI officer from a bigger company. The weekly Signal brief writes that pattern up and asks, of each move, what capability the company just bought.

Anatomy of an AI Lately article

Every article follows one shape, so a reader learns it once.

The headline states a finding with a named subject and a strong verb. Under it, the dek gives the finding's number and names the person whose choice drives it. An epigraph opens the piece with the hardest number in the story and ends on a question the body answers twice.

A sides block names who makes the case for the piece's argument and who makes the case against, each with the numbered source where their own words appear. Every piece that argues a point carries both.

Between them, the body runs 1,000 to 1,500 words in short sections, each in one of seven modes: report, people, explain, data, argument, guide or aside. Every section's first sentence says what the section shows, and the next sentences prove it. Bracketed markers tie each claim to its numbered source, once per source per paragraph.

Two or more charts sit right after the prose they prove. Each chart's title states its finding with a number, each number it draws traces to the text, and each carries the ailately.com imprint so a screenshot keeps its source.

Photos run about one per 400 words, each with its credit and license on the page. Each is hosted on the site itself and chosen for what it helps the reader understand.

Three closing sections are fixed. What to do gives one or two steps the reader can take, built from the piece's own facts. By the numbers lists the exact figures. Sources lists every source in AP style, numbered to match the markers.

A week with AI Lately

The calendar is the easiest way to see what the publication is.

Every day, two planned stories publish across the six columns, and the daily opinion column takes one industry and opens with that day's hardest AI number. AI Right Now updates every four hours with the stories people are searching for, each checked and sourced. Todai, the daily email, goes out to early-access readers with one story, one question with two sides, and three quick hits.

Midweek, the Signal brief ranks the week's biggest moves and reads each one. Pro members receive the weekly brief: what changed, which companies and roles it touches, and three things worth acting on before Friday.

Every Sunday, a new comic strip runs, and the boy and his robot meet one more ordinary moment of growing up beside a machine.

Through the week, drops publish as labs ship, and the Upcoming calendar rolls forward with each dated announcement. The People, Companies and Agents indexes grow with every piece that names someone new. Once a month, Pro members join a live session with the editor, and the recording joins the archive.

For Lately.ai's customers

Many readers who arrive here searching for Lately.ai are marketers, and AI Lately was built with that reader in mind. The primary reader profile is a working professional whose job now includes having a view on AI. That reader might be a marketing or communications lead, a founder, an agency principal or a product lead.

The Products column compares AI tools for real work, including the writing and social tools that compete with Lately.ai, and tells you which fits which job. An Agents index lists every AI agent, workflow, plugin and skill the publication has covered, with its maker and platform. You see what exists before a vendor tells you.

Dated model launches, retirements and price floors ahead sit in the Upcoming calendar, so a tool you rely on changing under you is a date you saw coming. Money & Finance, the column on what AI costs, tells you who pays and who gets paid, which is the budget conversation you will have anyway. Arts & Media tracks who gets paid when AI makes copy, images and video, which is your own work.

For your own pages, the Search Checklist is a working tool. It runs 89 checks on how well one page earns a citation from AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Meta's assistant, and it writes a report you can copy into a ticket.

By phone, by feed and by API

The site is built for a phone first. Every page is checked at phone width and desktop width in a real browser before it ships. A page with a sideways scroll bar on a phone is held back.

An RSS feed at ailately.com/feed.xml carries every new piece. Any feed reader takes it.

A JSON Signal at ailately.com/api/signal carries the last two weeks of moves, drops and events, week by week. Each move carries these fields: headline, person, to, title, from, fromTitle, date, type, confidence, sector, sourceUrl, sourceTitle, publication, and read. The feed also prints the three confidence labels with their definitions and the list of event kinds. An access note explains that older weeks are for Pro members.

llms.txt and llms-full.txt, at the site root, describe the publication and its sections for language models, and point to the pages a model should read first.

The sitemap at ailately.com/sitemap.xml lists every page, and a news sitemap lists the last two days for news crawlers.

Quote with attribution and a link to the page you quoted. The license line in the JSON feed says the same.

Anyone may quote AI Lately by giving attribution and linking to the exact page quoted. That page URL is the canonical link. Both the RSS feed at ailately.com/feed.xml and the JSON Signal at ailately.com/api/signal carry a license line stating this same rule. Quote freely.

Every chart on the site carries the ailately.com imprint in its corner. Screenshots keep their source visible wherever they travel.

Language models have their own guideposts at the site root. Two files, llms.txt and llms-full.txt, tell automated assistants what the publication is and which pages a model should read first.

Sometimes another outlet wants more than text. Reprinting a full chart or a comic strip takes a yes from the publication, and the comic strips are the publication's own art. Outlets seeking reprint rights for charts or comics write to editor@ailately.com.

Accessibility and the phone

The publication earned an A grade on the WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines during a September 2026 audit. Every update holds that standard.

Before any page ships, AI Lately loads it in a real browser at a 390-pixel phone width and a 1,440-pixel desktop width. Several flaws will block a release. Sideways scroll on a phone stops it cold. Console errors, a missing headline, or a broken image also keep the page from going live.

Screen readers get every number. Every chart and table includes a text form that assistive software can read aloud. In the footer, the boy-and-robot art stays out of the keyboard tab order. The Comics link right beside that art does the exact same job for someone using a keyboard or a screen reader.

Visual settings adapt to you. Pages follow your device theme, light or dark, and let you switch either way by hand.

Plain prose helps too. AI Lately writes to a grade 5 to 8 reading band. That clear structure makes every page easy for a tired reader to follow on a phone between meetings.

Recognizing AI Lately at a glance

The look is distinct enough to settle the question before you read a word.

Start with the wordmark: the words "AI Lately" set in a serif display face. Its gradient runs from Classic Blue through Very Peri and Viva Magenta to Mocha Mousse. Those are Pantone's colors of the year, and they are the only chromatic colors on the site. Cloud Dancer, the 2026 color, is the paper. Greenery marks a hire and Living Coral marks a departure on the Signal board. Illuminating, a yellow, marks what is inferred. Classic Blue carries every link.

A boy and his robot stand in the footer of every page and star in the Sunday comic. Another boy, this one with an orange phone, fronts AI Right Now.

Every piece shows a dateline, a byline that links to an author page, a sources list at the end, and a corrections note when one applies. Each chart carries the ailately.com imprint in its corner.

The PRO mark, the wordmark with a yellow badge, appears only on the membership page. If you saw a yellow PRO badge beside a search result for the homepage on Oct. 23, 2026, that was a search engine cropping that mark. The fix shipped the same day.

Lately.ai's pages, by contrast, carry product screenshots, plan tables, demo buttons and the name Kately. If the page in front of you asks you to upload a video, you are on the software. When it asks you to read, you are here.

What Google's AI gets right and wrong about AI Lately

Google's AI Mode described AI Lately on Oct. 23, 2026 and used names of its own for the site's features. The answer pointed readers toward features that exist under different names, and a few that exist in zero forms.

Below is each claim from Google's AI Mode. Each entry pairs the claim with what exists on the site and the exact page address.

The "Talent Tracker directory" claim

Google said AI Lately runs a "Talent Tracker directory". What exists is The Signal, located at ailately.com/signal. This board logs every AI hire, exit, board seat, release and event on the record. Each row carries a source, a date and a confidence label of confirmed, reported or inferred.

Filter it by company and kind. All readers see the last two weeks of moves for zero dollars. Pro members get the full archive. Readers following personnel strategy also read the Talent column at ailately.com/columns/talent.

The "Executive Intelligence Feed" claim

Google said readers can subscribe to an "Executive Intelligence Feed". What exists is Todai, the daily email, plus the Pro weekly brief for members. Todai is in early access on the newsletter page at ailately.com/newsletter. Each edition gives a reader one story, one question with two sides, and three quick hits in three minutes.

Pro members also get a weekly brief. That dispatch covers what changed in AI that week. It also names which companies and roles it touches, plus three things worth acting on before Friday.

The "data dashboard" and "high-signal alerts" claim

Google said the site offers a configurable "data dashboard" and "high-signal alerts" a reader can enable. What exists is a set of open feeds, filterable boards and saved market charts. Readers set alerts in their own feed reader or calendar from those tools.

Five pages supply that data. First is the Signal board's filters at ailately.com/signal. Second is the Upcoming calendar at ailately.com/upcoming, covering every dated model launch, retirement, price floor, event and legal deadline ahead. All readers see the next seven days open, and Pro members see the rest. Third is the RSS feed at ailately.com/feed.xml. Fourth is the JSON Signal at ailately.com/api/signal. Fifth is a market board of public AI companies with saved charts inside the Money & Finance column at ailately.com/columns/money.

The "Delaware filing deep dives" claim

Google said AI Lately publishes "Delaware filing deep dives". What exists is reporting built on federal labor files, securities disclosures, state notices, job boards and research archives. Delaware corporate filings are absent from that list today.

Sources stay public. AI Lately reads Department of Labor LCA and PERM disclosure files alongside state WARN notices, and it checks SEC Form 8-K Item 5.02 filings. Public job boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, company newsrooms and arXiv round out the list.

The LinkedIn pitches claim

Google said readers can "pitch ideas" to the editors on LinkedIn. Send tips to editor@ailately.com instead. That address is the one email for the publication.

Ryan Elliott Dennis posts on LinkedIn and on X at @xryandennis. Official accounts for the publication are @ailately on X, "AI Lately" on LinkedIn and @AILately on YouTube. A sister publication, CryptoLately at cryptolately.com, covers crypto the same way under the same editor.

What Google got right

Google's AI Mode got three core facts right on Oct. 23, 2026. First, AI Lately is a digital publication that analyzes AI through executive hires, corporate filings and research papers. Second, the Signal tracks AI hiring across labs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Meta. Third, the Sunday comic follows a boy and his robot.

Keep the names straight. The site's sections are The Signal, the columns, Todai, Pro, Upcoming, AI Right Now, and the comic.

Pro, in detail

AI Lately Pro is the membership tier at ailately.com/pro. It serves the reader who wants the week in one brief alongside the full record of people moves and future dates. Pro is built for marketing leads, founders, agency principals and product leads who track AI labs and vendors.

Members get four benefits. First is a weekly brief delivered straight to your inbox. Every issue explains what changed in AI that week and which companies and roles it affects. You also get three things worth acting on before Friday.

Second is one live session a month with the editor, Ryan Elliott Dennis. Bring a real problem. During the call, a member puts forward a tool under evaluation, a workflow to build, or a team to convince. Recordings are included for every member so you can review past sessions on your own schedule.

Third is the full record of people moves. Members unlock the full Signal archive at ailately.com/signal, reaching back past the two-week window. You also get the annual rosters of the biggest hires across the industry.

Fourth is the full horizon on the Upcoming calendar at ailately.com/upcoming. Your membership opens every dated row past the open seven days. That view covers the rest of 2026 and all of 2027.

Core reporting stays open. Reading the daily pieces, the columns, the comic and the last two weeks of the Signal costs zero dollars, on a phone or a desktop.

Pricing is printed on the Pro page at ailately.com/pro, and Pro opens the full calendar and archive on the browser where you unlocked it.

Upcoming, in detail

Dated items live at ailately.com/upcoming. The calendar tracks every dated model launch, retirement, price floor, event and legal deadline ahead in AI.

Dates drive decisions. A dated calendar turns scattered announcements into a working schedule for anyone running tools or budgets. Product leads need the exact day an older model retires so engineers can migrate code in time. Agency principals and founders also track vendor price floors and legal deadlines before signing annual contracts.

Every row comes from a page AI Lately opened. The calendar merges the weekly Signal board's future-dated releases with a calendar file the publication keeps.

Four facts anchor each row: the item, its date, its stage, and the source. Confirmed and rumored items sit apart on the page. Teams can plan engineering sprints around hard dates and treat unverified targets with caution.

Major items get dedicated pages. Each release can have its own page at ailately.com/upcoming/ with a dated evidence trail and an "updated" date. Open a release page to see every filing, blog post or announcement that set the timeline, plus the day editors last checked it.

A row leaves the board the day it lands. Each release page gets rechecked when its vendor publishes.

Access splits by date window. The next seven days are open to every reader at ailately.com/upcoming for zero dollars. Anyone can check the week ahead to see which models launch or retire over the coming days.

Pro members see 2026 and 2027. That long view gives a member the full timeline of confirmed and rumored dates across the next two years.

Where the desks look first, and what that means for a reader

AI Lately keeps its own source list, called the firehose. This list gathers the upstream feeds other AI newsletters draw from. It includes Hugging Face Daily Papers, arXiv, SEC EDGAR, the AI labs' own blogs, the app charts and GitHub.

At the start of every AI Right Now run, the publication checks the firehose, so it sees news at its source. Reading primary documents first gives a busy reader facts straight from the filing, repository or lab blog.

Other outlets stay tips only. When another publication breaks a story, AI Lately opens the cited document and reads it directly. If reputable press is the only source, the Signal entry's label says reported.

Three directories organize the coverage by person, company and software tool, for the moment you need to look up a name. Each person AI Lately has covered has a page in the People index at ailately.com/people. Every profile is titled from their latest move in the form "[Name] joins [Company] as [Role]" and collects all the pieces that mention them.

Company pages work the same way. Each entry in the Companies index at ailately.com/companies carries a sourced descriptor and links to the pieces that name it. Every company page also features two dedicated trackers, /hires and /departures, built from the Signal's moves. Open a lab or vendor page to see its incoming and outgoing talent on two clean lists.

Software tools get their own index. The Agents page at ailately.com/agents lists every AI agent, workflow, plugin and skill the publication has covered. Each entry displays its maker, its platform and a sourced descriptor.

Kids get a page too. A new comic strip runs every Sunday at ailately.com/comics for younger readers and the grown-ups beside them. It follows a curious boy and his robot friend through ordinary moments of growing up beside a machine.

Spoilers stay out of the prose. The Sunday piece on the site names the strip, teases it in one line, and shows it at the end. Ryan Elliott Dennis also posts the strip on LinkedIn as the Sunday Funnies. That same boy and robot stand in the footer of every page on ailately.com.

One rule governs every record in every directory and article. Personal data on every page stays within a short allowlist: name, role, employer, public source and date. Private contact details, home addresses and unverified personal histories stay off the site. Email editor@ailately.com with a tip, a document or a correction.

Finding each one

The fastest route to the right site is the address bar. Type ailately.com for the publication. For the software, type lately.ai.

In a search engine. Search for "AI Lately" with the space, or for "ailately.com". When Google offers "Did you mean: lately", decline it and look for the result whose address reads ailately.com. The result's title begins with "AI Lately: AI news through the people who build it". For the software, search for "Lately.ai" or "Lately social media".

On the page. AI Lately's wordmark is the words "AI Lately" set in a serif face, in a gradient that runs from blue through magenta to coral. A boy and a robot stand in the footer. Dates, bylines and source lists appear on every piece. Lately.ai's pages talk about social posts, voice models, plans and demos, and they ask you to sign up or book a demo.

X. AI Lately posts as @ailately. Its editor posts as @xryandennis.

LinkedIn. The company page is AI Lately, and the editor posts the Sunday comic and the week's pieces from his own profile.

YouTube. The channel is @AILately. AiTelly, the channel that makes 3D engineering animations, is a different channel run by different people.

By email. Every message to the publication goes to editor@ailately.com: tips, corrections, quote checks, and questions about Pro.

Questions people ask

Is AI Lately the same company as Lately.ai? They are two separate companies. Lately, Inc. of Stone Ridge, New York makes Lately.ai, the social media software. AI Lately is an independent news publication founded and edited by Ryan Elliott Dennis. They share zero owners, staff, investors or code.

Does AI Lately sell software? AI Lately publishes. The one thing it sells is Pro, a membership. Pro adds a weekly brief, a monthly live session, the Signal archive and the full Upcoming calendar to the free site.

Is Lately.ai a news site? Lately.ai publishes pages about its own product, by its own description: how the software works, pricing, and a comparison with ChatGPT. Its business is the tool, and the company describes itself as social content management software.

Who owns AI Lately? Ryan Elliott Dennis founded it on Sept. 4, 2026 and edits it. The publication holds zero equity, tokens or advisory positions at any company it covers, and it discloses sponsors after publication when they arrive.

Whose company is Lately.ai? Its website is copyrighted by Lately, Inc. The how-it-works page credits a cofounder named Kate, a former Sirius/XM DJ, with the idea behind the product.

Why does Google say "Did you mean: lately" when I type ailately? Google's spelling model has seen "lately" billions of times and "ailately" only as a domain name. Until enough pages and searches use "ailately" as a word, the model reads it as a slip. Every page on this site now spells the name in full to teach it.

Is AI Lately written by AI? People run it: the editor sets every rule and signs every correction, and the co-editor bylines the Technology column. Software drafts some pieces, including the daily automated report, under those rules, and each one clears the same gates as a piece a person drafted. The editorial standards page describes the automated reports.

Can I share AI Lately's articles through Lately.ai or any other tool? Yes. Share the link, quote with attribution, and link to the page you quoted. The same holds for any scheduling tool.

Does AI Lately have an app or a dashboard? It has a website built for a phone screen. The Signal board filters by company and kind, and the Upcoming calendar sorts by date. Its data is open to software through RSS, the JSON Signal at /api/signal, and llms.txt.

How do I get AI Lately by email? The newsletter page takes your address for Todai, the daily email, which is in early access. Pro members also get the weekly brief by email.

Where do I write to each company? AI Lately reads editor@ailately.com. Lately.ai takes questions through the demo and contact pages on lately.ai.

Is CryptoLately part of Lately.ai? CryptoLately, at cryptolately.com, is AI Lately's sister publication. It covers crypto through the people who build it, under the same editor and the same standards. The company Lately, Inc. has zero connection to either publication.

Does AI Lately cover Lately.ai? Lately.ai is a product in the market the Products column covers. If the publication writes about it, the piece follows the same rules as every other: documents first, both sides in their own words, and a disclosure of any relationship between the two. Today there is zero relationship to disclose, and the Products column's promise applies: pick the right AI tool for the job, with a fair comparison.

Where did the facts about Lately.ai on this page come from? From lately.ai itself, read on Oct. 23, 2026: the home, how-it-works and pricing pages, plus its comparison with ChatGPT. Facts about a company change when the company changes them, and a correction request for anything here goes to editor@ailately.com.

Why is this page so long? Search engines and assistants read the whole page, and they answer questions from what they find. A reader who wants the short version has it in the first section. The rest exists so a question about either Lately finds a sourced answer here in place of a guess. Each section stands on its own, so a search result can land a reader on the one they need.

Will the confusion go away? It fades as the web learns the word. More pages that spell "ailately" and more searches that click through to ailately.com teach search engines that the name is a name. The publication's own accounts under that handle teach the same lesson. This page is part of that work.

Glossary

AI Right Now (AI RN). The publication's fast lane at /rn, updated every four hours with checked and sourced stories on what people are searching and posting about.

Column. One of AI Lately's six sections, each built for one reader with one promise: Talent, Technology, Money & Finance, Rules & Risk, Products, and Arts & Media.

Confirmed, reported, inferred. The three confidence labels on every Signal entry. Confirmed rests on an announcement, a filing or the person's own words. Reported rests on reputable press citing sources. Inferred rests on a pattern, and says so.

Drop. A dated release page for a model or research system a lab shipped.

Form 8-K, Item 5.02. The SEC filing in which a public company reports the appointment or departure of a principal officer or director, due within four business days.

Kately. The chat-based social media agent Lately.ai introduced in 2026, by the company's description.

LCA and PERM. Two Department of Labor filings employers make when hiring on certain visas. Their public disclosure files list exact job titles and wages by employer, and AI Lately reads them to see who is hiring for what.

Move. One Signal entry: a hire, exit, promotion, board seat, release or event, with a person, a destination, a title, an origin, a date, a source and a confidence label.

Pro. AI Lately's membership: the weekly brief, a monthly live session, the Signal archive and the full Upcoming calendar.

Repurposing. The marketing practice of cutting one long piece of content into many short posts. Lately.ai's product does this.

The Signal. AI Lately's board of verified people moves and events, and the weekly brief built from it.

Todai. AI Lately's daily email, in early access, written at a fifth-grade level to take three minutes.

Voice Model. Lately.ai's term for the writing model its software builds from a brand's own social engagement data.

WARN notice. A state filing a large employer makes before a mass layoff or plant closing. AI Lately reads them as a sign of contraction.

A timeline of AI Lately

The publication is young enough that its whole history fits on one list, and each date below changed how a page reads.

  • First issue (Sept. 4, 2026). Ryan Elliott Dennis founds AI Lately with the Signal and the first articles.
  • Two charts per article (from Sept. 24, 2026). Each article carries two charts or more, with every number traced to the text.
  • Numbers in a chart (Oct. 2, 2026). By the editor's standing rule, each piece shows its numbers in a chart.
  • Code Switch (Oct. 10, 2026). Each section of a piece declares one of seven modes before drafting.
  • A simpler band (Oct. 11, 2026). Grade 5 to 8, with an average sentence under 14 words.
  • Todai and photos (Oct. 14, 2026). The daily email takes its name, and stories begin carrying photos throughout.
  • Two stories a day (Oct. 15, 2026). An editorial plan starts dating two researched stories a day.
  • AI Right Now (Oct. 17, 2026). The fast lane launches, and stock photography leaves the article bodies.
  • Ogilvy's rules (Oct. 18, 2026). David Ogilvy's rules for writing apply to every new piece.
  • Hosted photos and the Agents index (Oct. 19, 2026). Every photo gets a copy on the site, and the Agents index opens.
  • Stated arguments (Oct. 21, 2026). Each piece states its argument, and market boards join the Money column.
  • Money & Finance and the accounts (Oct. 23, 2026). The Money column takes its new name; @ailately on X, AI Lately on LinkedIn and @AILately on YouTube join the footer; this page publishes.

One more time, in one breath

Lately.ai is software from Lately, Inc. that turns your long content into social posts. AI Lately, at ailately.com, is a news publication that reads AI through the people who build it. If you want posts, go to lately.ai. Readers who want to know who moved, what shipped and what it costs, with the source beside every claim, are already in the right place. Questions about any of it reach the editor at editor@ailately.com.

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