Xerum for newsrooms and research organisations
Every claim traceable to where somebody wrote it
A newsroom's standard is that an assertion can be walked back to a source. That is exactly what provenance is — and it is the one thing a general-purpose assistant cannot give you, because its answer ends at its own training data.
Sound familiar?
An assistant that cannot show its working
A model summarises your desk's own reporting and produces something confident and unattributable. For a newsroom that is not a productivity gain; it is a liability with a byline.
The verification is redone every time
Something was checked, sourced and stood up six months ago. The checking is in an editor's inbox, so the next person to need it checks it again — or worse, does not.
Nothing separates approved from drafted
A shared drive holds the sourced version and four working versions with no visible difference between them. The distinction lives in somebody's head, and that is not a process.
What changes
Provenance, not a bibliography
Every answer carries the revision it was read at, the resource it came from and the origin URL — so checking a claim is a click, not an email to whoever wrote it.
Editorial approval is the model
Members propose, owners decide. Nothing joins the record until an editor approves it, and a rejected proposal disappears rather than lingering as a draft.
What we knew, and when
Reading at an older revision answers what the desk had established at the time a piece ran — the question that matters when a story is challenged afterwards.
No model-written facts
Nothing enters the context because a model inferred it. Everything came from a source with an origin, or from a person whose proposal an editor approved.
What this industry buys
Citation + curation
The two things a newsroom already demands of a human, applied to the store your agents read from.
- Every answer ends at the URL a person wrote it at
- An editor approves what joins the record
- Approved and unapproved are structurally different, not a naming convention
- History is append-only — a correction is a new revision, visibly
A research desk your agents can actually cite
Built today, not on a roadmap. Every property above is already how the store works.