About Glean

Glean is a weekly curated AI digest for people who build with LLMs, agents, and AI coding tools. Every Friday morning, it collects the most important AI developments of the week into one page — so you can stay current without scrolling through dozens of sources.

The name comes from "to glean" — gathering the best bits from scattered sources.

Four sections, one page

Each digest is organized into four editorial sections. News covers releases, launches, funding rounds, model drops, and major announcements — what shipped and happened this week. Practical Picks surfaces tools worth trying, tutorials, workflows, and practitioner patterns you can put to use right away. Trends is the editorial desk — opinion pieces, long-form essays, deep dives, and the industry direction pieces that help you see where things are heading. And Hidden Gems is the curator's ear — overlooked tools, underrated posts, surprising finds, and niche-but-brilliant pieces most digests would miss.

How it works

Glean uses a hybrid AI + human curation model. An automated system scans dozens of sources every week, generates summaries, and assembles a draft digest. Then the curator reviews, edits, reorders, and adds anything the automation missed. The result is a digest that combines the breadth of automated collection with the judgment of someone who builds with these tools daily.

Every link gets a reading time estimate, topic and tag classification, and a concise summary — so you can decide what's worth your time without clicking through everything. Only high-credibility sources make the cut.

Who curates it

Glean is curated by Bala (Balázs Barta) — a design technologist who works at the intersection of interface design and frontend development. By day he builds design systems and ships product at US-based startups. The rest of the time he's deep in AI tooling, agents, and developer workflows — and got tired of feeling behind on what's moving every week.

Glean started as a personal habit: scanning dozens of sources every Friday to stay current. Turning it into a site felt like the obvious next step — if this curation is useful for one practitioner, it's probably useful for more. If you have feedback, a link suggestion, or just want to say hi, reach out at contact@hellobala.co.