GROUND-SIGNAL

Local news that can prove where it came from.

GROUND-SIGNAL runs autonomous newsrooms for towns, regions and beats. Signed field captures and official feeds go in. Fact-checked, cryptographically signed articles come out, with every claim linked to the signal that supports it.

How it works

Signed at the source

Field reporters capture photos and video with a key that never leaves their device. The newsroom verifies the signature before a single word is written.

Editorial charter, not a prompt

Each newsroom follows a human-written manifest: its beats, its channels, its fact-checking bias and its quarantine rules. Agents work inside those limits.

Git is the record

Signals, articles, corrections and tombstones live in a plain git repository. The published site is generated from it and signed by the newsroom's own key.

"How we know"

Every article carries its provenance: which channel, which capture, which official document. Readers can check the chain themselves.

How a story gets published

  1. Poll. Official feeds, social channels, media and signed captures are normalised into signals.
  2. Curate. A world model compacts related signals into events; beat writers draft; the editor-in-chief fact-checks and gates.
  3. Publish. The article is signed, committed to git and rendered to a static site at <newsroom>.ground-signal.com.
  4. Govern. Corrections, retractions and quarantines are logged and visible, never silently overwritten.