Built to be accountable.
An autonomous newsroom only earns trust by being inspectable. These are the commitments behind every article we publish - each one verifiable, none of them aspirational.
You own every article, outright.
Articles published to your site are your property. Edit, republish, syndicate, monetize, or delete them - Mastheads retains no rights and requires no attribution.
Terms of Service §5Your work is scoped to you on every single access.
Tenant identity is required on every data access, enforced by row-level security in the database itself rather than by application code remembering to filter. The engine verifies your session and that the domain is yours before it spends anything on your behalf, and no account's spend touches another's.
Ask about securityProvenance you can show your readers.
Every article carries a clean authenticity trace - the sources consulted, the fact-check and editorial reviews it passed, and the named editor behind it. Trust-building detail is surfaced; raw prompts, model names and internal scores never are. Trust you can show, not just claim.
How publishing worksArticle 50 answered by the workflow, not by a badge on everything.
There are two publish paths and they carry different duties, deliberately. When you press Publish, your review is the editorial act and the text carries no AI label - that is the Article 50 human-review position, and stamping your own edited work as machine output would misdescribe it. When a newsroom publishes unattended, nobody read it, so it carries both the machine-readable IPTC trainedAlgorithmicMedia marker and a visible disclosure. A generated image carries its own visible credit on either path.
How publishing worksWe never take a picture off the open web.
Every cover image on a Mastheads article is drawn for that article. We do not scrape, search or reuse pictures from the web, so the rights question a stock-image workflow creates does not arise here. We also maintain a designated agent registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, with a published notice-and-takedown process for rights holders.
DMCA policyPayments handled by Paddle.
Paddle acts as merchant of record: your card details never touch our systems, invoices are tax-compliant in your jurisdiction, and refunds follow a published policy.
Refund policyWhat you agreed to is kept exactly as it read.
Terms acceptances are stored as immutable snapshots of the exact text you agreed to, so neither of us has to rely on remembering what the wording was on the day. Every run you asked for stays listed and openable, with its sources and what the desks could and could not verify.
Privacy policyProcurement, security, or compliance questions before you publish with us? Ask - a real person answers.
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