Product spec
You’re the only editor, and the staff is paid in tokens.
Who it’s for
- A solo newsletter writer who now reads for 90 minutes to write for 60.
- A devrel or comms person who has to know what moved by 9am.
- A two-person team sharing a Slack channel (the gateway supports group chats).
You bring the judgment and the voice. If you don’t know your bar yet, run it for a week and let the spike button teach you.
A day on the desk
- 07:00Fourteen searches, eleven extracts. Two stories clear the bar and land in Telegram at 07:04.
- 07:20You approve one and reply “edit: cut the second section, the claim 3 hedge stays” on the other. Hermes sends the revision.
- 08:05You paste the approved pieces into your CMS yourself.
- 12:30“Nothing cleared the bar (12 searches, 8 extracts, 2 x_search).”
- 17:30One draft, with a claim that has one source. You spike it and later work the reason into your bar.
- totalAbout 40 minutes of your time, all editing and deciding.
What it won’t do
- It won’t publish. There are no CMS credentials
and no
browser_typeinto an admin panel, because an auto-publishing news agent’s mistakes are public and permanent. - It won’t invent quotes. Any quote without a source URL fails the fact-check.
- It writes drafts of 300 to 600 words. Multi-day investigations are plan № 3.
- Cross-posting is a separate job. Keep it out of this pipeline’s permissions.
Cadence costs money
Three runs a day spend metered calls whether or not news happened. Start with two. Hourly runs roughly quadruple the monitoring bill. The numbers are on the traps page.