How we work

Where stories start

Every story starts from public material: company announcements, product documentation, research papers and news reports. The story links the sources it relies on, at the bottom of the page. We attribute claims ("the company says") and we write in our own words, not the source's.

What the AI does

An AI system drafts each story from the linked sources. It is a Claude model from Anthropic, currently claude-opus-5-5. Every story page says it is AI-assisted, and the byline names Kortex Daily, not a person, because no single reporter wrote it.

The rules it follows are written down and apply to every story: plain words, short sentences, no hype, no invented numbers and no quote a source did not publish.

What the checker does

Before anything goes live, a second pass reads the draft next to its sources and tests each claim. A story that passes is published. A story that needs a small fix is corrected first. The notes from every check are stored with the story.

What we hold back

A story that fails the check is held. A held story is not on the site, not in the email and not in the feeds. We would rather skip a story than print something the sources do not support.

What it means for you

One line on every story is written for you, not for the industry. What it means for you says what the news changes in your work, and says so when the answer is "nothing yet, if you are on the free plan". The checker holds it to the same rule as the rest of the story: it may not claim anything the sources do not say.

Photos and pictures

Story images use real photos when one truly fits: a portrait of a public figure the story names, or a photo of the place, product or kind of hardware it is about. We take them only from openly licensed collections (Wikimedia Commons and Openverse), only under licenses that allow reuse (public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA), and we credit the photographer and license on the image and under it. We crop and tone them; we never add or remove people, put people together who were not together, or use one person or company to stand in for another. We never use AI-generated pictures of real people. When no honest photo fits, the story gets one of our own illustrations instead.

Corrections

Found a mistake? Email kortexnotebooklm@gmail.com with the page address and what is wrong. We fix confirmed errors and update the story's date.

Sponsors and From Kortex

An ad never changes a story. Sponsors cannot request, rewrite, hold or rank coverage, and we run a story the same whether or not an ad sits near it. Paid blocks say "Sponsored". Promotions for our own Kortex extension say "From Kortex" and fill only the slots nobody bought. See the sponsor page.

Audio

Kortex Daily Audio uses a synthetic voice reading a script written from our published stories. The transcript is on every episode page.

Numbers we publish

Audience numbers appear only after we have measured them. We do not print testimonials or lists of companies that read us unless they are real and have agreed.