A quality score is not a fact-check.
This page is about Acta AI, the autoblogger at withacta.com. Acta.ai, the meeting assistant, is a different company. Acta markets hard against slop, and its centrepiece is a visible "Acta Score" that rates every article across six dimensions. Its own ten-stage pipeline lists Web Research, an AI Review for structure and voice, and the score itself, and no stage that checks a claim against a source. It grades the finished article and suggests revisions. Mastheads checks it: every claim is checked against its sources, the result is on the article, and a fabricated citation or an article with no supported claim at all is refused outright rather than published with a low number attached. A score is an opinion about an article; a check is a record of what held up.
Acta and I agree on the enemy. Where we differ is what to do about it: a score tells you how an article reads, a check tells you whether it is true.
Acta grades the finished article and suggests revisions. Its published pipeline has a Web Research stage and an AI Review stage for structure and voice, and no stage that checks a claim against a source. There's no AI-disclosure or compliance layer and no named-byline system, and its plans run one, three or ten connected sites.
The tape.
Fact-checked against cited sources
Waits for your review before publishing
Real named byline / editor of record
Auto-publishes to your CMS
Runs autonomously on a schedule
Native languages
EU AI Act disclosure · GDPR rights · DMCA agent
You own it + one-click export
Positioning
- A check that refuses outright to deliver a fabricated citation or an article with no supported claim at all, not a score you're free to override.
- Named bylines, an editor of record and any language, where Acta names neither bylines nor languages.
- EU AI Act disclosure, a registered DMCA agent, self-serve GDPR export and account deletion, and a full authenticity trace, none of which Acta offers.
- Every article shows what was checked and what fell short, so a weak piece is named, not just scored.
What you get that Acta AI doesn't.
Sourced, or it doesn't ship
Every article is written from cited sources and cross-checked against them before delivery. A judge vets each source for the specific story - right event, right dates, real substance - and a topic that can't be properly sourced is dropped, not padded. No source, no article.
A real editor of record
Nothing publishes anonymously. Each article carries a real named byline and a human editor of record, accountable for editorial standards, source policy, and disputes - the person whose name is on the door.
Review by default; auto-publish you can defend
Every claim is checked against its sources and the result is written on the article, and nothing ships silently. Auto-publish is opt-in and runs the very same checks - trustworthy when it's unattended, not merely unchecked.
Compliance built in, not bolted on
EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure on anything published unattended, self-serve GDPR export and account deletion with access and correction on request, a registered DMCA agent, and cover images we draw rather than take off the open web, so there is no stock-image rights question to clear - standard on every plan.
A newsroom in any language
Any language, for any country - written in its own grammar and idiom rather than translated, held to the same quality bar, all under one subscription. Where we curate a local newsroom register, it takes that too.
Your content, never locked in
A read-only pull API, and one-click export to WordPress WXR, Ghost, and Markdown with every image. You own the articles outright - no royalty, no attribution back to us.
Acta and Mastheads agree on the enemy, slop, and disagree on the cure. Acta grades quality and shows you a score with revision hints. Mastheads checks it: every claim is checked against its sources, the result is written on the article, and a fabricated citation or an article with no supported claim at all is refused outright. Measuring slop is marketing. Naming it on the article, and refusing the worst of it outright, is the product.
Under the hood: it discovers stories in your niche, writes them in your voice, fact-checks against sources, illustrates, and publishes to your CMS, on your schedule.
How it worksCommon questions
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