More than a one-click draft.
Koala is a fast one-click writer: paste a keyword, get a formatted draft, push it to WordPress or Ghost. But a draft is the finish line for Koala and the starting line for the real work. It doesn't fact-check against sources, doesn't hold anything for review, and puts no name on the page, so everything that makes an article trustworthy is still sitting on your desk. Mastheads hands you the finished, checked article, not the raw draft.
Koala is a competent draft tool, and a draft is where it stops. There's no source-based fact-check that can hold a weak piece, no review gate, and no editor of record, and its bulk output is widely noted to read robotically without a human editing pass. Fast to a first draft; nowhere near a finished, defensible article.
The tape.
- Each article arrives fact-checked and finished under a real byline, not a raw draft you still have to verify and format.
- Mastheads finds the topics and runs on a schedule, instead of waiting for you to paste a keyword.
- Quality gates can hold a piece back and per-article variation keeps output from reading mass-produced.
- Compliance, an authenticity trace, and a clean portable export come standard.
What you get that Koala 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
Independent quality gates can hold any article for one-click human review, and nothing ships silently. Auto-publish is opt-in and runs the very same gates - trustworthy when it's unattended, not merely unchecked.
Compliance built in, not bolted on
EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure, GDPR export and erasure, a registered DMCA agent, and a pre-publish copyright gate that stops a rights-risky image before it goes live - standard on every plan.
A newsroom in five languages
English, German, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch - each written in its own grammar and idiom rather than translated, held to the same quality bar, all under one subscription.
Your content, never locked in
Physical per-publication data isolation, a read-only 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.
Koala hands you a fast first draft and quietly hands back the sourcing, the checking, and the judgement. Mastheads keeps all three: source-checking, quality gates that can hold a piece, per-article variation so nothing reads mass-produced, and a real writer on the byline. The gap between them is the entire job of an editor, and it's the part that decides whether a page earns trust.
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.
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