The autopilot you can put your name on.
Journalist AI (now rebranded Arvow) is the tool most often mistaken for Mastheads: brief it once, and it writes and auto-publishes to WordPress or Ghost on a schedule. The resemblance ends at the word "publish." It optimizes for uniqueness and search volume, not for whether a claim is true, no fact-check against sources, no record of what was checked, no editor of record. Mastheads runs the same autopilot with the editorial standard Journalist AI leaves out.
Journalist AI and Mastheads look alike from a distance: both publish on a schedule without you. I built the part that decides whether what publishes can carry your name.
Journalist AI / Arvow publishes on autopilot, and that is the whole of it. Its pitch is content that "sounds like you" rather than AI, which is detection-avoidance, not source-checking, and there's no check that shows you what held up and no named editor behind it. Broad and hands-off, with the trust layer missing entirely.
The tape.
Fact-checked against cited sources
Waits for your review before publishing
Real named byline / editor of record
Auto-publishes to your CMS
Runs autonomously on a schedule
Native languages
EU AI Act disclosure · GDPR rights · DMCA agent
You own it + one-click export
Positioning
- The same hands-off scheduled publishing, but every article is fact-checked against its sources and arrives saying what it checked.
- A real named byline and editor of record on every piece, instead of anonymous autoblog output.
- Source discipline over detection-avoidance: the goal is being trustworthy, not being undetectable.
- EU AI Act disclosure and a registered DMCA agent are built in, GDPR export and account deletion are self-serve, and export is clean.
What you get that Journalist AI doesn't.
Sourced, or it doesn't ship
Every article is written from cited sources and cross-checked against them before delivery. A judge vets each source for the specific story - right event, right dates, real substance - and a topic that can't be properly sourced is dropped, not padded. No source, 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.
Both tools publish to your CMS on a schedule without you touching it. Only one checks each article against its sources, shows you what it found before you publish, and ships it under a real byline. Journalist AI automates publishing; Mastheads automates a newsroom, and the editorial standard is the whole difference between an article you can sign and one you cannot.
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.
How it worksCommon questions
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Put your name on it.
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Comparison reflects publicly available information about Journalist AI as of 2026-09-04; features and pricing change, so check their site for current details. All product names and brands are the property of their respective owners.