A Koala AI alternative built to publish.
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.
Koala is built around fast drafts: a keyword, or its content-calendar autopilot, starts a formatted article, Deep Research mode gathers sources and citations before it is written, and one click sends it to your CMS. Mastheads starts with the newsroom.
A fast draft is worth having. What I wanted after it was the part that makes an article defensible: what was checked, and whose name is on it.
Mastheads starts with the publishing operation.
Koala writes fast. Its Deep Research mode gathers sources and citations before the draft, its Content Calendar Autopilot keeps topics moving on its own, and one click publishes to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost. Its own pages describe all of that, plus a Content Editor that scores a draft against the SERP and internal-linking automation to keep a site's pages connected.
Mastheads is built around what happens after deciding to publish: researching the story, writing from the sources it found, checking the claims, recording anything it could not settle, putting a real editor behind the piece and publishing on the schedule you set. Koala's pages do not say which claims were checked against its cited sources, name an editor accountable for a piece, or describe a review step before an article goes out - drafts go out as "drafts to review, or auto-publish per brand", the choice sitting with the account, not built into the pipeline.
Koala writes fast drafts. Mastheads runs the publishing operation.
Mastheads vs Koala AI.
Publishing automation, sourcing, fact-checking, languages and ownership, side by side.
Articles a month
Languages
Runs autonomously on a schedule
Research before writing
Citations on the finished article
Claims checked against sources before publish
Unresolved verification shown on the article
Review before publishing
Human editor of record
Named byline
AI disclosure when nobody reviewed it
Direct CMS publishing
GDPR data rights
EU AI Act disclosure for unattended publishing
Registered DMCA agent
Output ownership
Portable export
Positioning
Compared against publicly available Koala AI product and pricing information. Last checked September 2026. Features and limits can change. Sources: Pricing, Homepage, Features, Multilingual support, Autopilot mode, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy. 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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Put your name on it.
10 articles. Seven days. No card. See what Mastheads publishes for your site.