An Acta AI alternative built to publish.
This page is about Acta AI, the autoblogger at withacta.com. Acta.ai, the meeting assistant, is a different company.
Mastheads is built to run the publishing operation: finding what is worth covering, researching it, writing from real sources, checking the claims and publishing 40 to 300 articles a month in your publication's voice.
Acta is a solo-founder autoblogger built around two things: an Editorial Review pass that checks claims against sources before a scheduled post goes out, and an Acta Score that grades the finished draft across six dimensions and suggests the next edit. Mastheads starts with the newsroom.
Acta and I agree on the enemy. Where we differ is what happens to a claim that does not hold up: on Mastheads, it stays on the article for the reader to see.
Acta starts from the draft and the score. Mastheads starts from the publishing operation.
Acta's own pages describe an Editorial Review stage that checks claims against sources, attempts corrections, and holds unresolved findings "for attention" before a scheduled publish can go out, alongside an Acta Score that grades readability, SEO structure, originality, E-E-A-T, depth and AI citability. Neither page says an unresolved finding is shown on the published article itself, or reaches the reader.
Mastheads writes the result of that check onto the finished article: what was checked, and anything that could not be settled. A topic that cannot be properly sourced is dropped rather than padded, and a fabricated citation is refused outright rather than published with a note attached.
Acta's blog carries a corporate byline, "Acta AI", on every post, with no editor of record named anywhere on the site. Mastheads publishes under a real named byline and a human editor of record, per publication.
Mastheads vs Acta AI.
Publishing automation, sourcing, fact-checking, languages and ownership, side by side.
Articles a month
Checks claims against sources before publish
Unresolved findings shown on the published article
Waits for a check 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
Compared against publicly available Acta AI product and pricing information. Last checked September 2026. Features and limits can change. Sources: Acta AI home, Acta AI pricing, Acta AI features, Acta AI glossary, Acta AI blog, Acta AI about, Acta AI privacy policy, Acta AI terms of service. All product names and brands are the property of their respective owners.
Built like a newsroom, not just a content tool.
Sourced by default
By default, every article begins with real sources. Those sources are checked for the story, date and substance before writing begins. If a topic cannot be properly sourced, it is dropped rather than padded.
With Research on, no source means 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 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.
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.
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