Behind the Work
Inside the Editorial Stack
We open our own machinery. The agents that draft, the editors that cut, the fact-checking pass that catches what the drafts invent, and the places where a human still has to sit down and decide.
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We open our own machinery. The agents that draft, the editors that cut, the fact-checking pass that catches what the drafts invent, and the places where a human still has to sit down and decide.
In this episode
The pipeline, end to end
Brief, draft, edit, verify, design. Which stages a machine handles and which it demonstrably cannot.
Where the fact-checker earns its keep
The categories of error it reliably catches, and the one category it never does.
Voice is a human problem
Why every attempt to automate the final edit made the writing worse in ways readers noticed.
What we would not do again
Two automations we removed, and the reasoning for pulling them.
The machines got us to a solid draft much faster. Everything that makes it worth reading still happens after that.
Mentioned
- The full written companion piece in the articles archive
- Module material on this topic in the AI Fluency programme
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