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MEMBERSHIP — €9 / MONTH OR €84 / YEAR Issue No. 184 · Updated weekly

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The paid reading tier behind our Friday Insiders Brief, the full long-read archive going back to 2021, and the editors-only margin notes — €9 a month or €84 a year, cancel any time.

By the Gawlo Editorial Board 6 min read Updated this week
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TIER COMPARISON

What changes when you join.

Free readers already get the daily Gawlo Brief and the open archive of 2,847 analytical pieces from 2024 alone. Insiders adds the weekly ritual, the editors-only threads, and the kind of context that never makes it into the public feed. No upsells, no locked previews — what you see below is exactly what each tier delivers.

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  • The Gawlo Brief, delivered weekday mornings to 187,000 readers worldwide.
  • Full access to our open archive — 8 to 12 original long-reads and field reports every week.
  • Public Methodology ledger, including the timestamped corrections ledger (correction rate 0.4%).
  • RSS feeds for every section, plus the Friday reading-list digest.
  • Comment threads beneath every open article — moderated, but open.
  • Reading-list bookmarks across devices, with no tracking and no advertising.
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  • Everything in Free — the daily Brief, the open archive, the public methodology.
  • The Friday Insiders Brief — a 1,400-word editors-only dispatch that never goes public, written each week by a rotating member of our 38-person editorial board.
  • Margin notes on every long-read: the sourcing, the dead-ends, the conversations that shaped the argument.
  • The full back-catalogue — every piece we've published since founding in 2021, searchable and exportable.
  • Members-only Slack threads with our 140 contributing analysts across 31 countries, organized by beat.
  • Quarterly editor's call — a 60-minute audio Q&A with Marta Quintas and Daniel Hofstetter, open to questions in advance.
  • Two free gifts per year — printed field reports mailed to members, at cost.
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INSIDERS, IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Why the room shows up.

Three readers, in their own words — a founder, an analyst, and a working journalist — on what changes when the Brief moves from inbox to membership.

“I run a 14-person research team. The Friday Insiders Brief has, on three separate occasions this year, put a name on a thread we were already chasing. It is the cheapest €9 I spend on the operating budget — and the only subscription that has changed an opinion I held.”
Adaeze Okonkwo Head of Research, Northwind Capital — Lagos
“I have been a Reuters correspondent in three postings. Gawlo is the only publication I read cover-to-cover, and the only one I pay for. The margin notes — the parts editors normally throw away — are where the actual reporting lives.”
Lukas Brandt Independent analyst, formerly Bloomberg — Berlin
“We were cited in a Gawlo long-read on a Tuesday. By Friday, three of our researchers had subscribed — not for the story, which we'd already read, but for the room that grows around it.”
Mariana Velasco Founder, Sutra Research — Mexico City
THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE ROOM

Quietly audited.

Every figure below is published in our methodology ledger and re-verified each quarter. We do not round up, and we do not borrow other outlets' numbers.

Daily Brief subscribers
187,000
Grown from zero in 26 months. Zero paid acquisition.
Paying Insiders members
9,400
As of December 2024. €9 / month or €84 / year.
Reads per week, per reader
4.1×
Q4 2024 internal survey, n = 4,820. Average reader age 33.
Founded
2021
Lisbon, by Marta Quintas and Daniel Hofstetter. Independent since day one.
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