Newsroom
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- 400,000 credits a month
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Last night, in two newsrooms
The same story broke in both at 23:41. Scroll through the night and watch what each one did with it.
- 22:00. The desk goes home.
22:00Your newsroom
Everyone logs off. Twenty tabs of feeds stay open on a laptop that is about to go to sleep.
22:00With Phanor
The night shift starts. Skopos, the scout, keeps reading your feeds, Google News, Google Trends and Hacker News.
- 23:41. A story breaks in your niche.
23:41Your newsroom
Nobody sees it. The one person who would have caught it is asleep, and the tabs are closed.
23:42With Phanor
Spotted on three feeds. Krites, the assignment editor, scores it and commissions it before midnight.
- 23:58. Someone has to check it.
23:58Your newsroom
The writer who covered this beat quit. The job ad is still up, and nobody else knows the sources.
23:58With Phanor
Histor, the reporter, opens seven sources and checks every figure against a page it actually read. A snippet is not a source.
- 00:20. It needs writing.
00:20Your newsroom
No draft, no cover, no one on it.
00:20With Phanor
Grapheus writes it in your house voice, the way your EDITORIAL.md says. Zographos draws the cover. Then it waits for your yes.
- 02:10. The small hours.
02:10Your newsroom
The 2 a.m. scroll. You see the headline on your phone, half asleep, and promise yourself you will deal with it in the morning.
02:10With Phanor
The draft waits. Nothing goes live without you. Meanwhile the Gardener goes through what is already live and flags the pages that are slipping.
- 03:00. Three in the morning.
03:00Your newsroom
Asleep. As you should be.
03:00With Phanor
The Night editor reads the day’s rejections and learns from them, so tomorrow’s drafts stop repeating them. Mnemon files the day into memory.
- 07:45. Morning.
07:45Your newsroom
Your editor finds the story in a group chat. Eight hours late. Now someone has to research it, write it and find a picture.
07:45With Phanor
One tap. The draft has been in your Telegram since 00:20, sourced, checked and with its cover. You read it over coffee and tap Approve.
- 09:00. Your readers are up.
09:00Your newsroom
Still writing. Then the copy-paste into the CMS, the meta description nobody remembers, the figure nobody had time to check.
09:00With Phanor
Live since 07:46. Keryx filed it with its sources, its cover and its meta description. The early version is the one being read.
Your part: everything, from 07:45.
Your part: one tap.
Same story, same night. Only one newsroom was awake for it.
How many stories broke last night while you slept?
An illustrative night. The agents and their jobs are real; the times are an example.
Your agents do the labour.You focus on the revenue.
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Today's shift
Working on 1 storyWaiting on youLive on yoursite.com- Skopos1 minUp nextWaiting on youSpotted it on 3 local feeds
- Krites1 minUp nextWaiting on youScored it 8.6 and commissioned it
- Histor9 minUp nextWaiting on youRead 7 sources, checked 12 facts
- Grapheus6 minUp nextWaiting on youWrote 860 words in your house voice
- Zographos3 minUp nextWaiting on youMade the cover
- Keryx1 minUp nextWaiting on youPublished it to your site
Previewyoursite.com/city
City
Metro will run all night on weekends from June
By City Desk · 4 min read
Trains will run through the night on Fridays and Saturdays from June 6, after a summer trial carried 410,000 late riders.
The city says it costs less than the night buses it replaces. The first all-night train leaves Central at 1:10 a.m.
ApprovePublishedReject
First hour on your site1,240 readers
One story, from a feed to your site.6 agents, 21 min of work.Your part: nothing yet.1 click.
- 4.6×the clicks from Google search, by month six
- 4 minof your time per story, down from four hours
- 1editor for ten stories a day, not a team of eight
- +195%monthly readers, six months in
Illustrative figures from a sample newsroom, shown in full below.
More readers, for a fraction of the work.
A sample newsroom publishing ten stories a day, before Phanor and six months after.
Ten stories a day, each one built for search. Google sends more readers every month.The agents find it, research it, write it and ready it. You spend four minutes reading and say yes.Ten stories a day took a team of eight. With Phanor it takes one editor: you.More stories, published while the news is still fresh. Monthly readers almost triple.| Month | Last year | With Phanor |
|---|---|---|
| Apr | 8k | 11k |
| May | 9k | 18k |
| Jun | 8k | 24k |
| Jul | 9k | 30k |
| Aug | 10k | 35k |
| Sep | 9k | 41k |
Illustrative figures from a sample newsroom publishing ten stories a day. Your results will vary.
Every desk staffed.Every hour covered.
One job each, done the way a good newsroom does it. The story moves from desk to desk, and nothing goes live until you say yes.
On every story
Each piece passes through these desks in order, from a feed to your site.
Skopos
Scout
Sweeps the feeds and trend sources for stories worth a look.
Krites
Assignment editor
Weighs each batch of candidates and commissions the survivors.
Histor
Reporter
Researches a commissioned story: sources fetched, facts checked.
Grapheus
Writer
Writes the article from the research brief. No tools, just craft.
Zographos
Art director
Reads the finished article and decides what its cover should be a picture of.
Keryx
Publisher
Carries approved work to the live site. Only moves after you say yes.
Day and night
The rest keep the paper getting better, and learn from every story you turn down.
Heuretes
Ideas editor
Invents evergreen story ideas from what readers keep asking.
Metron
Market analyst
Measures every asset on the watchlist and writes up the chart with the most to say.
Gardener
SEO gardener
Tends what is already live and files suggestions for what wilts.
Night editor
Reads the day's rejections at 3am and edits the soul accordingly.
Mnemon
Archivist
Decides nightly what to keep, pin, or let fade from memory.
You
Editor-in-chief
Set the voice. Say yes or no to every piece, from the dashboard or Telegram.
It writes like you.Nothing happens without you.
The style is yours, the sources are shown and the bill is itemised. Every story waits for your yes before a reader sees it.
Voice
Your voice, in files you own.
Four plain files say how your newsroom writes, what it covers, which house rules it keeps and how its covers look. Change a line and the next draft follows it.
newsroom / soulPlain text, yours to edit
- # How we write
- Ordinary words, in the sentences a good paper uses.
- ## Every story
- Lead with the fact, not the adjective.
- Say "said". Never "slammed", never "blasted".
- Explain a term the first time, inside commas.
- End on a fact, not a flourish.
Grapheus writes to it. A draft that breaks it goes back.
Approval
Nothing goes live without your yes.
Every finished draft waits for you, in the dashboard or in a Telegram chat. Approve it, turn it down or ask for changes from your desk or your phone. Until you say yes, readers see nothing.
Phanor
phanor.local/review
Review
1 waiting0 waitingCity, 860 words, 7 sources
Metro will run all night on weekends from June
ApproveRejectApproved in TelegramLive, approved in Telegram
In the works
- Bus lane vote moves to MayGrapheus is writing
- Libraries open on Sundays againHistor is researching
9:41
Phanor
botpublishing…
Metro will run all night on weekends from June
City, 860 words, 7 sources
Trains will run through the night on Fridays and Saturdays from June 6.9:41
ApproveRejectAsk for changesYes, publishCancelApproved by you at 9:42
It is live on your site.yoursite.com/city/
Message
Proof
Every claim keeps its source, every credit its receipt.
A snippet is not a source: figures are checked against the pages the reporter actually opened, and the sources travel with the piece. Every charge says which agent did what.
metro-all-night.mdSources travel with the piece
Trains will run through the night on Fridays and Saturdays from June 6[1], after a summer trial carried 410,000 late riders[2]. The city says the service costs less than the night buses it replaces[3].
Sources
- [1]Transit authority press releaseOpeningOpened
- [2]Summer trial report, page 4OpeningFigure matches
- [3]Council budget papersOpeningOpened
- [?]Search snippet: “about 400,000 riders”CheckingNot a source
This story, itemised
Skopos12
found it
Krites30
judged it
Histor1,240
research, 7 sources
Grapheus640
writing, 860 words
Zographos110
cover
Total2,032 credits
Example story. Figures and credits are illustrative.
Works with what you run.
- Publishes to
- Payload CMS
- Finds stories in
- RSS feeds
- Google News
- Google Trends
- Hacker News
- Measures with
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics 4
- Asks you in
- Telegram
- Your dashboard
- Runs on
- Our hosting
- A machine of your own
What your workflow really costs
Put in your own numbers. The receipt adds up a month of stories made by hand, beside the same month on Phanor.
Each mark is an hour of work by hand in a month. Orange is what stays with you on Phanor: reading drafts and saying yes.
A month, itemised
Stories6 a day × 30180
By hand
Work2 × 1.5 h each540 h
Labourat $35 an hour$18,900
With Phanor
Newsroom planlist price$599
Your review4 min a story*12 h
Review timeat $35 an hour$420
Total$1,019
Less every month with Phanor
$17,881
and 528 h of work back
Newsroom's credits cover this month on the default writer. *Our estimate of the time to read a draft and tap yes.
By hand, $18,900 a month. With Phanor, $1,019.
Your numbers and our list price. Review time is an estimate.
See every planOne price for the whole desk.
Choose by how much you publish. Every model call, web search and cover is paid from the plan's credits, so there are no API keys to bring.
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$1,499/month
Or $16,190 a year, saving $1,798
- 1,000,000 credits a month
- 4,000 pictures a month
- A machine of your own
- Priority support
Every plan has all the agents, unlimited authors and unlimited articles. Credits can also be bought outright, without a subscription.
Before you hand over the desk.
Straight answers on control, voice, sources and cost.
What is Phanor, exactly?
A team of AI agents that runs a newsroom. One watches your feeds and searches for stories, one decides which are worth doing, one researches, one writes in your house voice, one makes the cover and one files the piece to your site. You run the desk from a dashboard or from Telegram, and you can ask it what it did today.
Will it publish anything without me?
No. Every piece waits for your yes. You read it, then approve or reject it from the dashboard or from Telegram, and nothing goes live on your site until you do.
Will it sound like us?
It writes in a house voice kept in plain files you own: EDITORIAL.md for how it writes, NICHE.md for what it covers and leaves alone, PREFERENCES.md for your house rules and VISUAL.md for how covers look. Correct it once and the lesson goes into your preferences, so you never say it twice.
Where do the facts come from?
From the sources themselves. The reporter reads them and pulls out the facts, figures and quotes, and every article keeps its sources so any claim can be traced. A search snippet never counts as a source: figures are checked against the pages that were actually opened.
Which CMS does it publish to?
Payload CMS today. Phanor files each piece to your Payload site with its headline, body, cover and SEO description, and it reads Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4 to see how each one does.
What is a credit, and what does it cost?
Credits pay for the work. Every model call, web search and picture spends some, and each charge leaves a receipt saying which agent did what. Newsroom includes 400,000 a month and Network 1,000,000, with no API keys to bring. Need more? Buy them outright at 600 for a dollar, from $25, with or without a plan. Bought credits never expire. See the plans.
Can my newsroom have a machine of its own?
Yes, on the Network plan. Your newsroom gets a whole machine to itself, run by us, instead of a place on shared hosting. On Newsroom it runs on shared hosting that we look after.
Who owns what it writes?
You do. Every piece is published to your own CMS under bylines you set up, with as many authors as you like. If you ever stop, everything you published stays on your site.
Give your newsroom a night shift.
It finds, checks and writes while you sleep. By morning, the drafts are waiting for your yes.