A BlackLeaf wire · Project Apollo
The wire, walked through.A wholesale feed of verified public-record digests — the facts inside the report, ready to run, with the hash to cite.
Apollo is the AP model applied to public finance: not the raw documents, but the digest of the report inside each — extracted facts, recomputed figures, provenance — packaged for a newsroom to run or build on without redoing the checking. Below is the wire itself, dispatch by dispatch, then how it's built.
- Reports on the wire
- 704
- Fact-verified
- 542
- Enriched
- 162
Walk the dispatches
Eight real reports as a subscribing newsroom receives them. Step through with the controls — or the ← → arrow keys.
CISA's 'Unique Talent' Incentive Reached Nearly Half Its Staff
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General
A pay bonus built to retain CISA's rarest cyber talent reached nearly half the agency. A DHS inspector general found $138.2 million paid since FY2020 — including $1.41 million in back pay to 348 people that no record explains.
Confirmed facts — blind-verified against the source
Verified dispatches carry the confirmed facts; enriched dispatches carry a plain-English “why it matters” and a suggested angle. Every one carries its seal. Use ← → to step.
A digest is a join, not a generation.
The build reads the sealed-document pool and the article verification records — both already on disk — and emits one digest per report, aggregating each story's sealed sources. Zero new cost for the whole corpus; the checking was already done upstream.
One report, its facts, its seal.
Each digest ties a report to the confirmed facts drawn from it — every load-bearing number blind-verified against the source — plus its Admiralty grade, a SHA-256 of the sealed original, and a Wayback mirror. That machine-checkable record is the product.
{ "tier": "verified", "verifiedFactCount": 21,
"report": { "title": "CISA's 'Unique Talent' Incentive…",
"publisher": "DHS Office of Inspector General" },
"claims": [{ "text": "CISA paid $138,174,600 …",
"locator": "Table 2, p.10", "verdict": "confirmed" }],
"provenance": { "grading": {"reliability":"A","credibility":1},
"sha256": "373ac94547f313b1…", "archiveUrl": "…" } }Feeds a newsroom can already poll.
A read-only JSON feed (full claims payload, filterable by tier) and an RSS feedof the newest digests. No auth for the pilot — a shared token and static generation, per the wire's own MVP doctrine.
A per-beat email, sent by hand.
Each pilot gets a wire brief of the reports sealed since their last send that match their beat — jurisdiction, label, keyword. Watermarked so nothing repeats; the editor sends it, because the send is the touch.
Machine help, only where the record is thin.
The reports with no article yet showed only a machine-written descriptor. A cheap model pass wrote each a newsroom “why it matters” and a suggested angle — grounded strictly in the report's own metadata, with no invented figures and no named individuals.
Pilot it free
We're opening the wire to newsrooms as a free pilot quarter — full access, no strings, in exchange for honest feedback. Fair warning so it's not a surprise: the analysis is AI-authored under disclosed bylines and human-edited; every number traces to a sealed source document, which is the point.
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