For universities and libraries
Your university pays for premium journalism. Most students never activate it.
Aperture turns the WSJ, NYT, FT, and HBR subscriptions your institution already pays for into something students actually use, personalized to their major, career interests, and how they consume information.
Request a DemoBuilt at CU Boulder · Live pilot with Leeds School of Business students
The problem
The subscriptions you pay for sit unused.
<20%
of students activate the premium news subscriptions their institution provides.
76%
of students we interviewed cite lack of customization as their #1 barrier.
68%
cite paywalls, even when their institution has already paid for access.
"The news I get is too generic. Nothing is personalized directly to me." Student interview, Leeds School of Business
Students fall back to social media for news they'd trust more from the journalism you already pay for. Your investment doesn't reach them because the delivery doesn't match how they consume information.
The solution
Aperture makes what you already own consumable.
Sits on top of your existing subscriptions
No new vendor contracts. No change to publisher relationships. Aperture personalizes the access your library already provides.
Personalized to each student
Summaries are customized by major, area of emphasis, and career interests. A finance student and a marketing student don't get the same digest.
Delivered how students actually read
Daily email newsletter plus a native iOS app. Concise AI-assisted summaries that link back to the original article, driving traffic to publishers, not replacing them.
Measurable utilization for the first time
Open rates, click-through, and engagement per student segment. You finally see what the institution's subscription budget is actually producing.
My News
The easier way to actually read the newsletters a student already gets
Every Aperture user gets a dedicated forwarding address for the newsletters they already subscribe to (CU Libraries, Morning Brew, class listservs, research digests). Aperture parses each one into a simple, digestible feed. Students swipe left to dismiss anything that doesn't matter and swipe right to save the events, deadlines, and articles worth coming back to. Saved items land in the Saved tab.
Live in the iOS app today.
Proof
What we've learned from 90+ student interviews and a live pilot.
90%+
positive sentiment from pilot newsletter readers at CU Boulder Leeds.
90+
customer interviews completed across students, faculty, and researchers.
Mon–Fri
daily delivery live to students, segmented by business emphasis.
iOS
native app shipped and running in production.
"A quick AI summary so I don't have to read through all the filler language." Adam, student interview
The product
A shipped iOS app students are using today.
Pilot program
Who this is built for.
Team
Built by a small team at CU Boulder.
Emily Eigenbrode
Marketing & Editorial
Marketing + Strategy/Entrepreneurship at Leeds with a Media Studies minor. Currently at CU Independent; former Editor-in-Chief. Leads customer research and editorial strategy.
Cody Jacobs
Technology
ECE with a CS minor at CU Boulder. Built the iOS app and production backend. Leads software, infrastructure, and systems coordination.
Kate Gassman
Finance & Partnerships
Finance + Entrepreneurship + Biology at CU Boulder. Former FTI Corporate Finance Consultant with credit union client experience.
Jordan Zoeckler
Product & Strategy
Strategy + Entrepreneurship + Management at Leeds. Founder of Plumm activewear. Drives customer discovery and product-market fit.