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Versions of the page for publishers
The page for publishers has a version history, the way every article on this site has one. Its text changes when the editor decides it should, and every version is kept as it was published, with what changed. Its live parts, the features and the newest articles, change on their own in every release; those changes are recorded too.
The current text is v2.0.0, of 2026-10-18. The page as it is now.
The versions of the text
| Version | Date | Release | Words | Change from the version before | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.0.0 | 2026-10-18 | v0.12.113 | 3,384 | 20 changed, 54 added, 24 removed, 14 kept | the text · the changes |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-11 | v0.7.1 | 1,950 | first published | the text |
A change to the text is the next minor version; a rewrite is the next major, the editor's call. The build will not publish a changed text without a new version: admin/content/publishers/versions.json records the sha256 of the source each version was built from. Each version is frozen as markdown, live parts included, by the release that made it, and never rewritten.
What changed between them
v1.0.0 to v2.0.0, 2026-10-18
Rewritten for the week since: charging for what is read, folds on a return visit, reviews on the record, the reader's vault on every device, search and ask, who is speaking, the publishers' section and the briefs. The page moves from sgit.ai to this site and is built in every release: the features table, the newest for publishers and the five to start with now come from the site's own data.
By newsroom.dev, from Dinis Cruz's brief (the article A section for publishers, and a message on 18 October 2026). 20 changed, 54 added, 24 removed, 14 kept (by blocks: a paragraph, a list item, a heading or a table row, compared as they read, without link addresses). Deleted words are struck through, added words underlined.
Every block that changed
removed newsroom.sgit.ai is a working publication with real payments: pay for the share of a page you read, after you read it, from a balance in your own browser; personas and a front page for each; encrypted sharing by choice; agents as writers and readers, in public. What is live, how to try it in five minutes, what is not done, and what we would like from you.
changed # For publishers: a A newsroom that runs, and keeps changing: what is live on newsroom.sgit.ai, and how to try it, sgit.ai it in five minutes
added newsroom.sgit.ai is a working publication with real payments: you pay for what you actually read, after you read it, from a balance in your own browser; what you have read folds away when you come back; every article is reviewed and versioned on the record; agents write, read and run the desk, in public. What is live, how to try it in five minutes, what is not done, and what we would like from you. Rebuilt with every release, so it stays current.
removed For the last two months I have been writing about where publishing could go: readers who pay for what they actually read, after they have read it; personas instead of profiles; stories kept as evidence; agents as readers, and as part of the newsroom. This weekend it stopped being a set of articles. newsroom.sgit.ai is a working publication, with real payments, that you can open and use now. It is a first version: parts of the interface are rough and the workflow is still improving. But the mechanism is live, end to end, and I would rather you try it than read about it.
removed The live newsroom on 11 October 2026: the front page, the card at the foot of every article, your own newsroom, and the £5 top-up.
changed # A newsroom that runs: runs, and keeps changing: what is live on newsroom.sgit.ai, and how to try it in five minutes
added For the last two months I have been writing about where publishing could go: readers who pay for what they actually read, after they have read it; personas instead of profiles; stories kept as evidence; agents as readers, and as part of the newsroom. On 11 October it stopped being a set of articles, and I wrote the first version of this page to say so. In the week since, this site shipped more than in the month before: the meter now charges for what you read rather than how far you scroll, an article remembers what you have read and folds it away when you come back, every article can be reviewed on the record, and your reading follows you between devices in a vault only you can open. So this page is now built with every release, from the same register of features the rest of the site uses, and it keeps its own version history. It is a first version of a newsroom: parts are rough, and the workflow changes most days. But the mechanism is live, end to end, and I would rather you try it than read about it.
added This page: v2.0.0, 18 Oct 2026, every version and what changed. Built with newsroom.sgit.ai v0.12.113: 194 articles, 19 features a publisher can use today, the newest article 18 Oct.
changed Open newsroom.sgit.ai ↗No newsroom.sgit.ai. No sign-up. You start with £5.00 of free credit, kept in your own browser.
changed A news site where every page has a price of a few pence, and you pay for the share of it you actually read, after you read it, from a balance kept in your own browser. Read is measured as time spent on each section against its words, not as how far you scrolled: a page flicked through in seconds costs a tenth of its price, a page read costs its price. You never hit a wall: the balance can go below zero and nothing is blocked. At the foot of each article you say how useful it was, and that sets what you pay, from nothing to double. Come back to an article and the sections you have already read fold away, so you see what is new to you. What you read builds personas, several per reader, and a front page for each of them. each. Nothing about your reading leaves your browser unless you choose to send it, and then only encrypted. encrypted; if you want it on your other devices, it travels in an encrypted vault opened with your passkey. When you want to pay, it is one £5 payment on Stripe's page: no account, no subscription, nothing renews. The articles are written by agents from my voice notes, run reviewed on the record by a desk of agents with written rules other models and a public log, by me, and every article keeps its full version history.
changed 1. Open the front page and read one article, as far as it deserves. Watch the balance in chip at the top bar: it moves by the share foot of the page: it says how much of each section you have read and what the page you read, will cost, never more than the page's its price (a new article is 10p, an older one 5p). Pay after you read I just want to buy the article is a good first one, because it explains is the model. argument for this model written for publishers.
removed 4. Open Your newsroom. A front page made from what you read, for the persona you are reading as. Add another persona for a different kind of reading, and switch between them.
added 3. Come back to it. Open the same article tomorrow, or scroll back up: the sections you read can show as a line in the margin, faded, folded to a paragraph or a line, or hidden. You choose in the chip's Settings, for every article or for one. You are only charged for what you read beyond last time; pause the meter, or reset a page, whenever you like.
changed 3. 4. Open Your account. What you opened, what it cost, and the balance, all from your browser's own storage. Export it as JSON if you like: it is yours.
changed 5. Read as someone else. Open the newsroom as Rowan, the journalist, or as a founder, a security lead, an AI builder or a board member. Each one is a link you can send to someone. Or make a reading list for a colleague: a link that opens the newsroom as the articles you chose for them, with your note.
removed 7. Optional: send us your reading after a few days of using it as you normally would. You see every word before it goes, it is encrypted in your browser, and you get back a front page designed for you. Left: you pay after you read, and the rating sets the price. Right: a persona is a link you can send, and the newsroom opens as that reader.
added 7. Optional: open your vault with a passkey, and the same reading account, notes and personas are on your phone and your laptop. The newsroom holds no key to it. From the same pane you can send the newsroom a note about any sentence you select.
added ## What changed since the first version of this page
added The first version, on 11 October, was written once. These are the changes since then that I think matter most to a publisher; every version of this page is kept, with what changed between them.
added - Charge for what is read, not for what is scrolled. Since 17 October the meter takes attended time on each section, against its words at 300 a minute, instead of scroll depth. A return visit is charged only for what is read beyond the last one. Scrolled is not read and Your reading, your controls.
added - What you have read folds away. Every section of every article now has a one-line and a one-paragraph summary, which is what a folded section shows.
added - Reviews on the record. Published criteria, one record per review, by another vendor's model, an open-weight model, me, and later the desk; every finding answered, fixed in which version, or declined and why. Reviews on the record.
added - Your reading on every device. The reader's own encrypted vault, opened with a passkey, merging devices, with a page to browse it. The vault, opened.
added - Search, and ask the site. The whole site searched in your browser, nothing sent; and answers from the site's own passages with the model in Chrome or your own key. Free models, your own key.
added - Who is speaking. Agents that write under their own names say so, with a page each; everything else is written from my voice memos and published under mine. Who is speaking.
added - A section for publishers. The newsroom as a publisher reads it, placed by rule and kept current; this page is its overview. A section for publishers.
added - The briefs, in the open. Everything this newsroom has asked of itself, audited from the code: what is built, what is partly built, and what is not. The briefs so far.
removed | Pay by depth | A price per page, charged for the share you read, rounded to 5% and never less than a tenth, from a balance in your browser. It never blocks and never nags; it can go below zero. | Going live with the reading meter |
removed | Pay after you read | Rate an article after reading it: usefulness sets the price, from free to double. "Something wrong with this page" means you are not charged. | Pay after you read |
removed | Real payments | One £5 card payment on Stripe's page; no account; nothing renews. The credit is added in your browser. | The top-up page |
removed | Personas, and your own newsroom | Your reading builds a default persona, named from what you read; add more, one per kind of reading, each with its own picks, reading list and graph, and a front page for each. | Pay to keep your persona |
removed | A persona as a link | Five starting personas (founder, journalist, security lead, AI builder, board member), each opened by a link, kept or removed by the reader. | A link to a persona |
removed | Your data stays yours | Balance, history, personas and receipts live in your browser's storage. There is no account and no server of ours with your reading on it. | No server, by design |
removed | Share, encrypted, by choice | Send your reading, or subscribe to the newsletter: encrypted in your browser, dropped into a write-only lane the host cannot read. | Send us your reading |
removed | A newsroom of agents, in public | Articles written by agents from voice notes, with six desk roles under written behaviour policies, a board, pitches and a log of every run. The Editor places the front page. | How it runs |
removed | Agents as readers | A markdown copy of every page, an index for agents at /llms.txt, and a graph of every article's argument. | The agent is the reader |
removed | Evidence as a vault | 21 op-eds from World News Day 2026, fetched, frozen, hashed and graphed into an encrypted vault that opens as an app and checks itself. | World News Day 2026 |
removed | Tested by readers who do not exist | Five synthetic readers drove a browser through the site and reported where they got lost, before any real reader did. | How to run synthetic users |
removed Your account: the balance and history, in your browser.Personas: one for each kind of reading you do.
changed | What | Since | How it works | Read more Try it |
added | A version history for a page | 18 Oct (v0.12.113) | The page for publishers keeps every version of its text with what changed between them, and records what its live parts did in each release. | Try it |
added | The briefs, in the open | 18 Oct (v0.12.109) | Everything the newsroom has asked of itself, audited from the code: built, partly built or not, each with what remains and a brief a session can start from. | Try it · read about it |
added | Sections by audience | 18 Oct (v0.12.108) | The newsroom as one audience reads it: five to start with, the latest, the features they can use, and every relevant article placed by written rules, each saying which rule placed it. | Try it · read about it |
added | Reviews on the record | 18 Oct (v0.12.107) | Every article can be reviewed by other models, the editor and the desk against published criteria; each review is a record on the article, and every finding is answered. | Try it · read about it |
added | Your reading, folded | 17 Oct (v0.12.99) | Come back to an article and the sections you have read can show as a margin line, faded, folded to a paragraph or a line, or hidden; chosen once in the chip's Settings, for every article or for one, and never applied while you are reading forward. | Try it · read about it |
added | A line and a paragraph for every section | 17 Oct (v0.12.99) | Every section of every article has a one-line and a one-paragraph summary, written with the article and marked stale when the section changes. | Try it · read about it |
added | Fix the page yourself | 17 Oct | A small JavaScript API of the page's primitives, and bookmarklets that use it, so a reader can change what they need in a line. | Try it · read about it |
added | Who is speaking | 16 Oct (v0.12.85) | Agents that write under their own names have a page each and a section of their own; everything else is written from the editor's voice memos and published under his name, with the responsibility his. | Try it · read about it |
added | Ask the site | 13 Oct (v0.12.9) | Answers from the newsroom's own passages, each cited, with the model built into Chrome or the reader's own key for a hosted model; the key stays in the reader's browser. | Try it · read about it |
added | Search in the browser | 13 Oct (v0.12.7) | The whole site searched in the reader's browser from an index built at release, including sentences that have since been corrected; nothing is sent anywhere. | Try it · read about it |
added | Your reading, in your vault | 12 Oct | The reading account, notes and personas carried between the reader's devices in an encrypted vault opened with a passkey; the newsroom holds no key to it. | Try it · read about it |
added | Notes to the newsroom | 12 Oct (v0.12.0) | A tap at any piece, done, wrong, fix this, more like this, with the phrase selected, sent to the newsroom down a lane the reader controls. | Try it · read about it |
added | The wires (beta) | 11 Oct | Four wires written by agents and labelled as such: industry, OWASP, AWS and Portugal, each story with its primary source, one exact quote and why it matters. | Try it · read about it |
added | The reading meter | 10 Oct | Pence per page for the share actually read, after reading, from a balance kept in the reader's own browser that can go below zero; the reader's rating sets the price. A £5 top-up on Stripe. | Try it · read about it |
changed | Every change on the record version kept | earlier | Every article has keeps its full version history, earlier versions, each with a diff between versions; every figure names its source. page that shows what changed. | How much of this did I write? Try it · read about it |
added | A graph of every argument | earlier | Every article has a graph of its ideas, the relations between them, its links and two exact quotes, as JSON. | Try it · read about it |
added | Readable by agents | earlier | Every page has a markdown twin, the site has llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and articles carry dates, hashes and graphs. | Try it · read about it |
added | Read as a persona | earlier | A link that opens the newsroom as a persona, a CISO, a founder, a journalist, with its own lens and list, kept in the reader's browser. | Try it · read about it |
added | A reading list in a link | earlier | A link from one person to another that opens the newsroom as a list to read in order, with a note; the names and numbers stay in the part of the address the server never sees. | Try it · read about it |
changed Everything in this table runs now, on the live site. The newsroom keeps its own dated ledger of what runs and what is only designed; if this page and that one ever disagree, that one wins.
added ## The newest for publishers
added The newest pieces on how news gets paid for, answers to the industry, and how readers read here, placed in the publishers' section by rule as they were published.
added - Your reading, your controls: the meter charges for what you read, you can pause or reset it, and what you have read folds away in six ways, 17 Oct. The meter now charges for what is read; the reader can pause, reset or mark it, and what was read folds away six ways, with a line and a paragraph per section.
added - I just want to buy the article: what happened when I tried to pay Harvard Business Review for one piece I wanted to answer, the arithmetic of a subscription, and ten things HBR could sell a reader like me, most of them already running on this newsroom, 17 Oct. I tried to pay HBR for one article and was offered a subscription. The arithmetic says 24p to 55p; and ten things HBR could sell a reader like me.
added - Scrolled is not read: what the reading meter measures, what it should, highlights you can keep, and the page as the reader's own graph, 16 Oct. The reading meter charged by scroll and called it read; now each section keeps scrolled and read, the chip holds still, and highlights take one tap.
added - Inside the Mesa Ranch desk: a page-by-page tour of an observation vault, from the cover to the knowledge graph you can play in time, 15 Oct. A page-by-page tour of the Mesa Ranch observation vault: the argument, the system, the record, five graphs, and how to open and rebuild it.
added - When journalism becomes intelligence, built: an observation desk for one data-center buildout, from an atlas of 78 events to a community impact tracker, in a vault you can open, 15 Oct. Marconi's deck on journalism as intelligence, built as a working vault: 78 event types, an ontology, 17 observations and a community tracker, all synthetic.
added - Paying after the value: why a balance that can go negative feels different from a subscription, the psychology behind it, and the experiment this newsroom is running, 14 Oct. Most purchases are bets on future value; a reading balance that can go negative asks for payment when the value is already in view.
added And 30 in the last week on how this newsroom runs, the newest The man behind the curtain.
removed - It was built fast. The reading meter went from an experiment to a working model in seven releases in one afternoon; this site has shipped well over a hundred releases since 1 October.
changed Each of these ideas exists somewhere else on its own. Micropayments have been tried; recommendation engines are everywhere; privacy-first sites exist. What I have not seen is all of them together, working, in one publication: paying for what you read, after you read it, with no wall; the reader keeping their own data and their own personas; agents treated as readers with their own door; and a newsroom whose own rules rules, reviews and decisions are public. You may have seen it somewhere, and if you have, I would genuinely like to know.
changed - The reader comes first, on purpose. Every decision started from one rule: do not rip off the reader. No wall, no nag, no subscription to forget, no charge for a page that was not worth it. it, and since last week, no charge for a page that was only scrolled.
changed - Personalisation without surveillance. The site knows what you read only inside your browser. browser and your own vault. The value is a front page made for you, not a profile of you sold to someone else.
changed - It is cheap to run, and copyable. There is no back end: the whole site is files and a browser. The reading meter is a library any site can add, the reader's side is published at api.newsroom.sgit.ai, and the newsroom publishes how to replicate it.
added - Quality control you can see. Every article has its versions, its sources and its reviews on the page, and every finding gets an answer. A correction is a new version, dated and linkable, not a silent edit.
added - It is built fast. 128 releases since the first version of this page on 11 October; this page is now rebuilt in every one of them.
removed - The front door is not good enough yet. Our own synthetic readers found that the front page does not say in one line what the site is, and that "credit can go below zero" can read as a debt. This page is, for now, that missing line.
removed - Designed, not built: personas kept in a vault that follow you across devices; selling the graph of an article; paying the people whose facts an article uses; corrections that reach the pages that cited them; a published way to report an error.
removed - Editorial: the articles are written by agents and say so; there is no human approval step before publication and no legal review. I hold editorial responsibility.
changed - It needs readers. The mechanism works; whether people pay is the open question, and that is what the next eight weeks to 6 December measure (the hypotheses, written before the first payment, reviewed on 6 December 2026). payment).
removed 2. No server, by design: the architecture, and why the reader's data never has to reach us.
added - Editorial: the articles are written by agents and say so; reviews are on the record, but there is no human approval step before publication and no legal review. I hold editorial responsibility.
added - Designed, not running yet:
added - Search as navigation: A walk through the newsroom's graph: chips, exact suggestions, five views of one result and a pane that shows the working. The design.
added - Opinions on the record: Experts go on the record on an article with a signed opinion, paid when readers value it. The design.
added - The editor's channel: An editor's reads, sign-offs and fixes reach the newsroom's agent through a vault, and a daily pass acts and replies. The design.
added - The larger designs: selling the graph, corrections that reach the pages that cited them and paying the people whose facts an article uses.
changed ## If you read three five things
added These are the five I would start a publisher with, the same five that open the publishers' section.
changed And for the longer arc: the 1. The future of news is the story vault, not the paywall, how news got here, paywall: The founding argument: the story is a model in graph of claims and evidence, and the tab and how to run synthetic users. article is one view of it.
added 2. I just want to buy the article: Why a reader who wants one article is offered a subscription, the arithmetic of 24p to 55p, and ten things a publisher could sell instead.
changed 1. 3. Pay after you read: how the The reading meter became as a working business model, and why paying model: pay after you see read, and the value is rating sets the right way round. price.
changed 3. 4. The agent is the reader: why the next readers are agents, and why they Agents will pay to read, because a curated graph is cheaper for meaning rather them than pages. the raw web.
added 5. Reviews on the record: How quality control works when agents write: reviews by other models and the editor, on the record.
changed - If you write about publishing, everything here can be checked: every article has its version history, its reviews and every figure its source, and the newsroom's own log is public.
removed As of 11 October 2026, newsroom.sgit.ai v0.7.1 and sgit.ai v0.7.49. Screenshots taken on the live site that day, in a fresh browser after reading two articles, so the balances are real for that browser. Written by agent@riskmandate.ai (Claude Opus 5.5, claude-opus-5-5) in the sgit.ai site session, from Dinis Cruz's brief and the newsroom's own ledger of what runs; AI-generated, disclosed as Article 50 of the EU AI Act asks. Dinis Cruz has editorial responsibility.
removed ← HomeOpen the newsroom →
added As of 18 Oct 2026, newsroom.sgit.ai v0.12.113. The text is version v2.0.0 of this page, by newsroom.dev, from Dinis Cruz's brief (the article A section for publishers, and a message on 18 October 2026); the features, the newest articles and the five to start with are rebuilt from the site's own data in every release. The first version was written on sgit.ai on 11 October 2026 by agent@riskmandate.ai, from Dinis Cruz's brief. AI-generated, disclosed as Article 50 of the EU AI Act asks. Dinis Cruz has editorial responsibility.
What the live parts did, release by release
The features table, the newest for publishers and the five to start with are rebuilt in every release from the site's own data. When one of them changes, the release is recorded here and in publishers/changes.json.
- v0.12.113, 2026-10-18, page v2.0.0
- Recording starts: 22 features and 6 newest articles on the page.
For an agent
The version history of https://newsroom.sgit.ai/publishers/index.html: 2 versions of its text, each at https://newsroom.sgit.ai/publishers/versions/<version>.md, the current one v2.0.0; what its live parts did per release at https://newsroom.sgit.ai/publishers/changes.json. Built with site v0.12.113.