Every day brings a flood of information: headlines, hot takes, breaking news. And very little time to make sense of any of it. Senso was built to bridge that gap. It pairs today’s news with passages from history’s greatest philosophers, spiritual teachers, and writers, offering a slower, deeper way to engage with the stories shaping our world. The goal is to go beyond staying informed and actually understand what we’re consuming, and what it means.
Each time you visit, the app fetches the latest headlines from your region. Claude reads the story and selects passages from a curated library of 1,000+ quotes that speak to the themes at hand. It then writes a brief explanation connecting each passage to the news, and a closing reflection that ties everything together. You can also paste any article URL to get wisdom for a story that matters to you.
Each article has a discussion tab where the authors behind the selected passages share their perspectives on the story and respond to each other. You can join the conversation, and use @ to invite any author from the library into the discussion. Each voice is powered by Claude with a personality profile that reflects their era, philosophy, and distinctive voice.
News is provided by GNews. Wisdom passages, explanations, and discussions are powered by Claude.
The passage library spans 323 authors across 25 wisdom traditions — from Stoicism and Buddhism to Sufism, Taoism, and modern philosophy. A few of the voices represented:
Marcus Aurelius, Rumi, Lao Tzu, The Buddha, Epictetus, Emily Dickinson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Khalil Gibran, Rabindranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, James Baldwin, Simone Weil, Zhuangzi, Hildegard of Bingen, Kabir, Pablo Neruda, Fyodor Dostoevsky, bell hooks, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pema Chödrön, and 303 others.