A daily morning email.
Made for your life.
90 seconds. Sharper every day.
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Bit of fog over Barcelona this morning, the soft kind that suggests rather than obscures.
Here's an idea for today —
Today's not the day to do more — it's the day to send the one message you've been writing in your head.
Mondays don't reward overthinking.
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A real edition. Ross's, this Monday.
The morning problem
You reach for your phone before you're properly awake. Within thirty seconds you've checked email, scrolled X, glanced at the news, half-read a Slack ping. You're anxious before you're vertical. Behind before you've started.
The worst bit? None of it leaves you any sharper than yesterday. Twenty years of mornings, adding up to nothing.
The daily Cortado is the fix. Not another productivity tool — just one small edition that gets there first, and leaves you better for having read it.
What's inside
Uniquely yours.
Every morning.
The thing most morning emails forget
Reply to any edition — a pick you loved, a new project, a switch in what you're learning — and tomorrow's reflects it.
You, last Friday
"Loved the Razzmatazz pick. Send me more like that."
Cortado, this morning
"That Razzmatazz note landed — tonight's pick is cut from similar cloth."
Yours, learning. Quietly, without ceremony.
Why this works
Same content for everyone
Filler you skim past
Adds to your reading pile
You're no sharper a year in
Written fresh for you each morning
Knows your city, your interests, what you're working on
One real principle a day, made to stick
365 small upgrades a year. That adds up.
Getting started
A few honest answers
Each morning, Cortado gives you one nudge worth saving, one small thing you're getting better at, one place worth knowing, one fact you'll repeat, one minute that pays off. Five small upgrades, every day. After 30 days that's 150. After a year, nearly 2,000. That compounds.
Yes — for the beta. The cost is covered while we figure out what works. If it goes paid later, you'll know weeks in advance and the early users get a forever discount.
Likely $9/month or $72/year — but no commitment now. The deal is simple: try it free, see if it's the only email you'd miss.
A newsletter writes one thing and sends it to everyone. A daily Cortado writes a different edition for every reader. Yours reflects your city, your interests, what you're working on, where you are in your week. No one else gets your version.
What you tell Cortado lives in one database and is only used to make your edition. Never sold, never shared. Reply DELETE any time and it's wiped.
Reply STOP. You're out instantly. No drama, no retention email, no manipulation.
Yes — every edition has a link to update your settings. Or just reply to any email with what you want changed. Cortado reads everything.
90 seconds. Something to learn. A place to know. A thing to try. A line to carry. Sharper every week. Free during beta.
Start your daily Cortado →90 seconds. First edition tomorrow. No card needed.