Trust & compliance

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.

your content

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.

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your data

Your data is isolated at the database layer — not a shared table.

Every publication's content lives in its own isolated schema — no shared multi-tenant table where a query bug could expose another customer's content. Tenant identity is required on every single data access, and a request with no tenant context fails closed.

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authenticity

Provenance 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 works
eu ai act

AI Act–ready publishing, ahead of the deadline.

Every article carries machine-readable AI-provenance marking (IPTC trainedAlgorithmicMedia), and you choose per workflow: a visible AI disclosure on auto-published pieces, or documented human editorial review that satisfies the Article 50 exception — live now, before the 2 August 2026 deadline.

How publishing works
copyright

Copyright risk caught before publish, not after a complaint.

AI-generated and your own uploaded images flow freely; a scraped or web-sourced image can never go live — even on a fully autonomous edition — until you explicitly acknowledge the rights risk, and that acknowledgement is recorded in an append-only, tamper-evident ledger. We also maintain a designated agent registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, with a published notice-and-takedown process for rights holders.

DMCA policy
billing

Payments 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 policy
records

Tamper-proof records, for both of us.

Terms acceptances are stored as immutable snapshots of the exact text agreed to, and every account action is written to an append-only log that nobody — including us — can edit or delete. Your publishing history is provable, not just remembered.

Privacy policy
Questions

Procurement, security, or compliance questions before you publish with us? Ask — a real person answers.

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