You set the topics. It never starts from a blank page.
Set what your publication covers, and the newsroom works it without stopping - surfacing the stories worth writing in your niche, your places, and your moment, and showing you the leads it's chasing, live.
Local first, national fills the rest.
I never wanted a machine choosing what my sites cover. I wanted one that worked the topics I chose and never sat waiting for a brief. That is what this does.
Trending now, in your sections
A live feed inside the dashboard shows the leads the newsroom's scan is finding in your sections - each with a readable summary and the real sources behind it, outlet and headline, linked. It rides the autonomous newsroom.
Act on any lead with one tap: write one now - hand it a headline, or your own brief and links, and a finished article lands in review. No fabricated trend stats - if the feed shows it, the sources exist.
Local first, when you want it
Give a domain a coverage area - up to five towns, municipalities, or regions - and every discovery cycle looks there first, with national topics filling the remaining capacity.
Each place you add becomes its own search against every topic you cover, so the newsroom looks for your town's version of a story before the national one, and the country's top stories fill the rest.
Sources you rule out
Name the outlets you never want cited - up to forty domains - and they are never fetched and never cited. Not down-ranked and not merely deprioritised: a hard filter applied before a single page is read, so a paywalled outlet or a competitor never reaches your article.
It learns which outlets you trust
Every time you publish an article, the newsroom records which outlets it cited, per publication and per topic, and reads those outlets first the next time it searches. A publication that has published from its country's own papers learns them without anyone typing a list.
It also reads the latest research report's next-up topics as story candidates, and a monthly re-crawl of your site keeps that memory fresh.