People at Location Station

I’m building Location Station because local news deserves a business model that actually rewards attention and trust. Think “personal AI radio for your city.” You press play, get a short spoken briefing you can talk to, and every quoted minute—including follow-ups in conversation—rolls up to the original publishers for payout with citations. If we get this right, residents feel informed, and newsrooms get paid for impact, not clickbait. What’s great here is the mix of mission and hard engineering. We’re stitching together messy local inputs (sites, newsletters, calendars, public data), running retrieval and tagging tuned to geography, composing scripts with a provenance chain, voicing them naturally, then delivering as low-latency streams with ffmpeg multitrack mixdown—all while keeping costs per minute predictable. It’s a fun puzzle: truthful, conversational audio at scale with an auditable payout ledger. Culturally, we’re a builder’s shop: bias to ship, taste for quality, radical candor without drama, and obsession with user experience (hands-free, fast resume, “go deeper” prompts). We dogfood daily and measure completions, skips, and conversational usefulness. Remote-friendly with Bay Area gravity; short written updates beat long meetings. If you like small teams that move quickly and document as they go, you’ll fit right in. Why now? Voice + LLMs are finally good and cheap enough to make a trustworthy daily habit—and local journalism needs new economics. Prototypes are running; the first demo market is scoped; publisher outreach is underway. As a co-founder, you won’t be “joining a project,” you’ll be designing the product, the architecture, and the company. Ownership is real: sensible equity, four-year vest with a one-year cliff, and a short paid trial sprint so we both de-risk fit.

David Levine

Founder