FOR RESEARCHERS

Turn YouTube into a searchable research library

Rundown extracts every upload from the channels you follow into structured knowledge that matches its content. A lecture becomes concepts, prerequisites and references. A debate becomes positions and cruxes. All searchable, all yours, so you can find the idea you half-remember instead of the video you forgot.

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THE PROBLEM

YouTube has the knowledge. Finding it again is the problem.

You follow expert channels across your field. Conference talks, lecture series, industry analysis, deep dives by people who genuinely know their domain. But YouTube isn't built for knowledge retrieval. You watched a brilliant explanation of something six months ago and now you can't find it. Was it the MIT lecture, or the 3Blue1Brown video? What was the timestamp?

Your browser history is useless. YouTube search finds videos, not ideas. And watching every new upload from 30+ channels just to stay current isn't sustainable when you have actual work to do.

HOW RUNDOWN SOLVES IT

A research assistant that watches every lecture for you

Automated literature monitoring

Add the channels that matter to your research. When they post, Rundown generates a structured summary with key arguments, timestamps, and a recommendation on whether it's worth your full attention. A morning digest replaces hours of manual checking.

Search by idea, not by video title

Every summary becomes a permanent, searchable entry. Months later, search "transformer architecture explained" or "supply chain disruption analysis" and find every video where it was discussed, with the exact timestamps. Your knowledge base grows automatically.

See connections across sources

When multiple experts cover the same development from different angles, your digest makes the pattern visible. Three channels discussing the same paper in one week? You'll see all three summaries side by side.

A LITERATURE-REVIEW MOMENT

That lecture you half-remember, found in 15 seconds

You're writing a literature review and you remember a YouTube lecture where a professor explained a specific methodology really well. It was sometime in the past three months, but you can't remember the exact video.

You open your Rundown library, search the methodology name, and find four videos that discussed it. One has a key point at the 23-minute mark that's exactly the explanation you need. You click the timestamp and jump straight to it.

The whole search took 15 seconds. You go back to writing.

YOUR MORNING DIGEST

What this morning could look like

A typical digest for a researcher following machine learning and computational science.

Your Rundown · Wednesday

3 new summaries

Andrej Karpathy · YouTube · 8h ago

Let's build GPT from scratch

Key point @ 14:22 · "Attention is the only mechanism that lets the model look at all positions at once."

Worth watching if: you need a ground-up transformer explanation.

Two Minute Papers · YouTube · 16h ago

This new model changes everything about protein folding

Worth watching if: you're tracking computational biology developments.

Lex Fridman · YouTube · 20h ago

Interview on consciousness and AI

Worth watching if: you're researching philosophy-of-mind intersections with AI.

YOUR LIBRARY, MONTHS LATER

Searching across everything you've followed

transformer attention mechanism 4 results

Let's build GPT from scratch

Andrej Karpathy · 3 months ago · key point @ 14:22

But what is a Neural Network?

3Blue1Brown · 5 months ago · key point @ 9:08

MIT 6.S191: Sequence Models

MIT OpenCourseWare · 7 months ago · key point @ 31:05

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Common questions from researchers

How does Rundown work as a research tool?

Rundown monitors educational and research YouTube channels you subscribe to. Every new upload gets an AI-generated summary with key arguments, timestamps, and a viewing recommendation. All summaries are archived in a searchable knowledge base that grows over time.

Can I search across months of content?

Yes. Every summary is permanently stored and fully searchable. Search by topic, keyword, or creator name to find specific ideas across your entire library, regardless of when the video was posted.

Does Rundown work for academic content?

Rundown works with any YouTube channel, including university lecture series, conference talks, research explainers, and expert commentary channels. The AI summarisation handles technical content and produces structured key points with timestamps.

Can I cite a Rundown summary in my work?

Rundown summaries are designed as a research aid, not a primary source. Each summary preserves the original video URL and timestamps so you can verify and cite the source video directly. Use the summary to navigate to the relevant moment, then cite the original creator's work.