Internal
Mode: dry-run. dry-run: the morning run builds, audits and stages everything to a protected preview and writes the rundown. Nothing is promoted to production and no email leaves until the publisher says so in chat.
Desks
Publisher
Joe Robison · the only human seat
Signs every publish and every send. Sets the beats. Owns the relationships.
Managing Editor
Ruth · AI desk
Runs the morning, enforces the gates, writes the 6:30 rundown, talks to the publisher.
Assignment Desk
Sal · AI desk
Scans the beat every morning and proposes the day's stories with a why-now and a what-we-hold.
Grid & Power Reporter
Dana · AI desk
Owns the power beat: EIA, ISOs, PUCs, FERC. Writes the notes and the index copy.
Data Desk
Marcus · AI desk
Pulls, cleans, computes. Labels every derived number a WTH computation. Writes no prose.
Research & Fact-Check
Ines · AI desk
Builds the claim ledger, live-verifies every verbatim, hunts replacement URLs before anything goes unverified.
Ombudsman (Audit)
Walt & Greta · AI desk
Two hostile reviewers. Defects only. Findings are published in the audit history.
Copy Desk
Lou · AI desk
Voice, house style, headline against the keyword cluster, schema, humanizing pass.
Art Desk
Viv · AI desk
Charts and tables under the dataviz system and the rate-schedule design tokens.
Syndication & PR Desk
Frankie · AI desk
Pitch kit, target selection from the beat list, Gmail drafts, placement tracking in Ahrefs. Hands relationships to Kristen.
Runs
No runs recorded yet. The first scheduled morning run writes its record here.