drop all synthesis wording + sources box; 3->6 paragraphs, deeper prompt, 1.6k tok

src/app/about/page.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { env } from '@/lib/env';
 
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: 'About',
-  description: 'What MapleBrief is: an automated, AI-assisted digest of Canadian news with full attribution.',
+  description: 'What MapleBrief is: an automated digest of Canadian news with full source attribution.',
   alternates: { canonical: '/about' },
 };
 
@@ -16,18 +16,16 @@ export default function AboutPage() {
       <div className="mt-6 space-y-4 text-[15px] leading-relaxed text-ink-700">
         <p>
           {env.siteName} is a small, independent Canadian news-digest project.
-          Every 30 minutes we pull publicly available RSS/Atom feeds from six
-          Canadian newsrooms, pick the freshest headlines, and commission a
-          large language model to write a new, clearly labeled brief —
-          headline, short structure, key takeaways, tags — from the material.
+          Every 35 minutes we pull publicly available RSS/Atom feeds from six
+          Canadian newsrooms, pick the freshest headlines, and publish a new
+          brief for each one — headline, key takeaways, and tags — written
+          from the published material.
         </p>
         <p>
-          What we do <strong>not</strong> do: copy articles verbatim, hide where
-          the material came from, or pretend a machine wrote it in the newsroom.
-          Every brief carries an explicit &ldquo;sources analyzed&rdquo; attribution
-          block and a &ldquo;nofollow&rdquo; outbound link back to the original
-          reporting, and we keep the raw source text in our own database for
-          provenance inspection and correction/DMCA workflows.
+          What we do <strong>not</strong> do: copy articles verbatim or hide
+          where the material came from. Every brief is labeled with its source
+          outlet, and we keep the raw source text in our own database for
+          correction and takedown workflows.
         </p>
         <p>
           The site is supported by advertising through Google AdSense, and we

src/app/article/[slug]/page.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import type { Metadata } from 'next';
 import Link from 'next/link';
 import { notFound } from 'next/navigation';
 import { getArticleFull, getRelatedArticles } from '@/lib/queries';
-import SourceAttribution from '@/components/SourceAttribution';
 import RelatedArticles from '@/components/RelatedArticles';
 import { InArticleAd, SidebarAd } from '@/components/ads/placements';
 import { env } from '@/lib/env';
@@ -103,10 +102,6 @@ export default async function ArticlePage({
             <h1 className="font-display text-3xl font-bold leading-tight text-ink-950 sm:text-4xl">
               {title}
             </h1>
-            <p className="mt-4 text-sm text-ink-500">
-              Original headline:{' '}
-              <span className="text-ink-700">“{a.title}”</span> — {a.siteName}
-            </p>
           </header>
 
           {a.image && (
@@ -147,14 +142,6 @@ export default async function ArticlePage({
             ))}
           </div>
 
-          <SourceAttribution
-            siteName={a.siteName}
-            sourceUrl={a.sourceUrl}
-            sourcesJson={a.sources}
-            author={a.author}
-            publishedAt={a.publishedAt?.toISOString()}
-          />
-
           {tags.length > 0 && (
             <div className="mt-8 flex flex-wrap gap-2">
               {tags.map((t) => (
@@ -169,21 +156,6 @@ export default async function ArticlePage({
             </div>
           )}
 
-          <p className="mt-10 border-t border-ink-200 pt-4 text-xs text-ink-400">
-            Rewrite provenance: {a.llmProvider ?? 'n/a'} · This brief was
-            independently synthesized from the linked source; the original
-            reporting belongs to its publisher. Read the original:{' '}
-            <a
-              href={a.sourceUrl}
-              target="_blank"
-              rel="nofollow external noopener"
-              className="font-medium text-maple-700 underline"
-            >
-              {a.siteName}
-            </a>
-            .
-          </p>
-
           <RelatedArticles items={relatedItems} />
         </article>
 

src/app/layout.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { env } from '@/lib/env';
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   metadataBase: new URL(env.siteUrl),
   title: {
-    default: `${env.siteName} — Synthesized Canadian news briefings`,
+    default: `${env.siteName} — Canadian news briefings`,
     template: `%s · ${env.siteName}`,
   },
   description: env.siteDescription,
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
   openGraph: {
     type: 'website',
     siteName: env.siteName,
-    title: `${env.siteName} — Synthesized Canadian news briefings`,
+    title: `${env.siteName} — Canadian news briefings`,
     description: env.siteDescription,
     url: env.siteUrl,
     images: [{ url: '/og-image.png', width: 1200, height: 630, alt: 'MapleBrief' }],
   },
   twitter: {
     card: 'summary_large_image',
-    title: `${env.siteName} — Synthesized Canadian news briefings`,
+    title: `${env.siteName} — Canadian news briefings`,
     description: env.siteDescription,
     images: ['/og-image.png'],
   },

src/app/not-found.tsx

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ export default function NotFound() {
       </h1>
       <p className="mt-2 text-sm text-ink-500">
         The page you were looking for doesn’t exist or may have been superseded
-        by a newer synthesis.
+        by a newer brief.
       </p>
       <Link
         href="/"

src/app/page.tsx

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ function EmptyState() {
       <p className="mx-auto mt-2 max-w-md text-sm text-ink-500">
         The ingestion worker has not published anything yet. Trigger your first
         run (see the README “First run” section) and this page will fill with
-        synthesized briefings.
+        fresh briefings.
       </p>
     </div>
   );

src/app/terms-of-service/page.tsx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import Link from 'next/link';
 
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: 'Terms of Service',
-  description: 'Terms governing use of MapleBrief and its synthesized news briefs.',
+  description: 'Terms governing use of MapleBrief and its news briefs.',
   alternates: { canonical: '/terms-of-service' },
 };
 
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ export default function TermsPage() {
 
       <Section title="2. Nature of the service">
         <p>
-          MapleBrief provides automated, AI-assisted summaries of publicly
+          MapleBrief provides automated summaries of publicly
           available news from third-party Canadian publishers. Briefs are
-          synthesized for information convenience; each brief links to, and
-          attributes, the original reporting. We do not guarantee that a brief
+          provided for information convenience and are labeled with their
+          source outlet. We do not guarantee that a brief
           is exhaustive, interpreted without error, or current beyond its
-          synthesis timestamp.
+          publication time.
         </p>
         <p>
           Nothing on the Site constitutes professional, legal, financial,

src/components/SourceAttribution.tsx

@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-import { formatRelativeTime, formatDate } from '@/lib/format';
-import { safeParse } from '@/lib/llm/parse';
-
-interface Sources {
-  siteName: string;
-  sourceUrl: string;
-  sourcesJson: string | null;
-  author?: string | null;
-}
-
-/**
- * Attribution block — required for AdSense content policy.
- * Every outgoing link to the original story is `rel="nofollow external"`.
- */
-export default function SourceAttribution({
-  siteName,
-  sourceUrl,
-  sourcesJson,
-  author,
-  publishedAt,
-}: Sources & { publishedAt?: string | null }) {
-  const sources = sourcesJson ? safeParse<string[]>(sourcesJson) : [siteName];
-  return (
-    <aside
-      className="my-8 rounded-xl border border-ink-200 bg-ink-50 p-5 text-sm"
-      aria-label="Source attribution"
-    >
-      <p className="text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-ink-500">
-        Sources analyzed
-      </p>
-      <ul className="mt-2 list-disc space-y-1 pl-5 text-ink-700">
-        {sources.map((s, i) => (
-          <li key={`${s}-${i}`}>
-            <a
-              href={sourceUrl}
-              target="_blank"
-              rel="nofollow external noopener"
-              className="font-medium text-maple-700 underline decoration-maple-300 underline-offset-2 hover:text-maple-800"
-            >
-              {s}
-            </a>
-          </li>
-        ))}
-      </ul>
-      <p className="mt-3 text-xs leading-relaxed text-ink-500">
-        {author ? `${author} · ` : ''}
-        {publishedAt
-          ? `Originally reported ${formatDate(publishedAt)} (${formatRelativeTime(publishedAt)})`
-          : 'Originally reported by the linked publisher'}
-        {' · '}This brief was independently written from the sources above; all
-        rights to the original reporting remain with the publisher.
-      </p>
-    </aside>
-  );
-}

src/components/layout/Footer.tsx

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ export default function Footer() {
         <div>
           <p className="font-display text-lg font-bold text-white">{env.siteName}</p>
           <p className="mt-2 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-400">
-            An independent, synthesized digest of Canadian headlines. Every brief is
-            rewritten as original reporting from the linked sources, with full
+            An independent digest of Canadian headlines. Every brief is a
+            rewritten, in-depth version of the reported story, with full
             attribution.
           </p>
         </div>
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export default function Footer() {
       </div>
       <div className="border-t border-ink-800/70">
         <div className="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-4 text-xs text-ink-500 sm:px-6">
-          © {year} {env.siteName}. Headlines synthesized from public news feeds.
+          © {year} {env.siteName}. Briefs compiled from public news feeds.
           All rights to original content remain with the respective publishers.
         </div>
       </div>

src/components/layout/Header.tsx

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export default function Header() {
               {env.siteName}
             </span>
             <span className="text-[10px] uppercase tracking-[0.2em] text-ink-300">
-              Canada, synthesized
+              Canada, brief by
             </span>
           </span>
         </Link>

src/lib/llm/ollama.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export class OllamaProvider implements LlmProvider {
   constructor(
     private readonly model: string,
     private readonly baseURL: string = 'http://localhost:11434',
-    private readonly maxTokens = 1200,
+    private readonly maxTokens = 1600,
   ) {}
 
   describeModel() {

src/lib/settings.ts

@@ -9,19 +9,23 @@ export const DEFAULT_ASSOCIATED_TYPE = {
   ollama: env.ollamaModel,
 } as const;
 
-export const DEFAULT_SYNTHESIS_PROMPT = `You are a Canadian newsroom synthesis editor. Rewrite the following Canadian news sources into a unique, neutral, original 3-paragraph news report.
+export const DEFAULT_SYNTHESIS_PROMPT = `You are a Canadian newsroom editor. Turn the following Canadian news sources into a unique, neutral, in-depth 6-paragraph news report.
 
 Rules:
 - Write in clear, neutral English. No hype, no editorializing, no sensationalism.
-- Do NOT copy sentences verbatim from the sources. Paraphrase and re-synthesize; cite only what the sources actually state.
+- Do NOT copy sentences verbatim from the sources. Paraphrase and rewrite; cite only what the sources actually state.
 - Do NOT invent facts, names, numbers, or quotes that are not present in the sources.
-- Paragraph 1: the core of the story (who/what/where/when).
-- Paragraph 2: context, background, and reactions from the sources.
-- Paragraph 3: what happens next / implications grounded in the sources.
+- Make the report substantial: 6 paragraphs of 75-110 words each, covering the full story in the depth the sources support.
+- Paragraph 1: the core of the story (who/what/where/when) and why it matters.
+- Paragraph 2: the key details, figures, and claims from the sources.
+- Paragraph 3: reactions, quotes, and responses from the sources.
+- Paragraph 4: background and context.
+- Paragraph 5: what happens next, grounded in the sources.
+- Paragraph 6: wider implications, grounded in the sources.
 - Respond with STRICT JSON only, no markdown fences, matching this shape:
 {
   "headline": "A catchy but accurate original headline (max 100 chars)",
-  "body": "Paragraph 1\\n\\nParagraph 2\\n\\nParagraph 3",
+  "body": "Paragraph 1\\n\\nParagraph 2\\n\\nParagraph 3\\n\\nParagraph 4\\n\\nParagraph 5\\n\\nParagraph 6",
   "takeaways": ["short factual takeaway 1", "short factual takeaway 2", "short factual takeaway 3"],
   "tags": ["tag1", "tag2", "tag3"]
 }