Your privacy
A Papyrus newsroom runs in your own AWS account. Your votes, your policies and your archive are your data, kept in your account, not an ad profile somebody else keeps.
You control the algorithm
Someone controls the algorithm. Make it you.
On most feeds, other people decide what you see, and you hope it shows you things that interest you. When the medium is free, you are the product. A Papyrus newsroom works for you instead: you set the alignment, and it is easy to do.
The alignment is yours
Your decisions are the algorithm.
A Papyrus publication does not guess what you want. It is aligned by things you do and write down, and you can read each of them.
- Reference votes. Accept or reject a source and say why. The relevance Cyclotron learns your line from those votes, and you can read what it has learned. Beta
- Your mission and policies. You write what the publication is for, what it rejects and how it words things. Every agent works from that text.
- Proposed Stories. Approve, decline or send one back with a note. Your feedback shapes the next round of suggestions. Beta
You can steer as much or as little as you like. Once it is aligned you stop steering most mornings, and it keeps going.
What stays yours
Privacy, code, features: all of it.
Your code
Papyrus is open source under the MIT licence. You can read exactly how a decision is made, and fork it.
Your features
Add a monitor, change a policy, write a procedure. Nobody else decides which features you get or what the feed optimises for.
Evidence
Measured results are coming.
We are running this on our own publications and will publish what we measure, including how a site's Cyclotron learns from an editor's accept and reject votes. We have no numbers to show yet, so this page does not quote any.
For how the newsroom works day to day, see the home page.