THE OPPORTUNITY
We built a 109-person synthetic newsroom that covers 68 cities daily. It runs on GitHub Actions. The entire infrastructure cost is under $200/month.
WHAT WE BUILT — HONESTLY
Correspondents who remember past episodes, react to real headlines in their own voice, cover their own city, and funnel to a live show with real hosts. They're not writing blog posts — they're building local identity and audience in 68 markets simultaneously.
THE REFRAME
"We're an AI content company."
Every VC has seen "we use AI to generate content at scale." That pitch is dead. What they haven't seen is a distribution topology — 109 local voices with memory, personality, and daily output, all funneling to a live show where real humans anchor the conversation. That's not a content tool. That's infrastructure.
THE MOVES NOBODY'S MAKING
Pick 5 cities. Have correspondents cover actual city council meetings, local ballot measures, school board decisions. Nobody covers this anymore — local news is dead. You fill that vacuum. The SEO value is insane because there's zero competition for "Phoenix city council vote March 2026." This isn't partisan — it's civic journalism at AI scale.
Zero competition. Infinite authority.
Brands or causes pay for a correspondent to organically cover their topic for a week. Kaitlyn from Winnipeg doesn't say "buy this product." She covers a story about it from her local angle, in her voice, and it shows up in local search results. The CTA still goes to your show. Native local advertising that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Priced per city, per week.
Midterms. 68 AI correspondents filing real-time reaction takes from their cities as results come in. All feeding into one live feed on the universe, with real hosts anchoring the conversation. That's a CNN election night map — except it's two people and a Character Engine.
Screenshot that. Put it in the pitch deck.
THE CAPITAL STORY
Stop saying "we're an AI content company." Say this:
"We built a 109-person synthetic newsroom that covers 68 cities daily — and it runs on GitHub Actions. The entire infrastructure cost is under $200/month. We're not competing with AI content tools. We're competing with Sinclair, iHeartMedia, and local news. Except we don't need 68 offices, 68 anchor desks, or 68 payrolls. We need one live show, one engine, and one morning."
They need
We need
We just need to pick the next target.
The infrastructure already exists. The correspondents are filing. The show is live every morning.