How it works

From the wire to a verified post.

Every story on Gist Dey is produced by an AI pipeline that runs in stages. Nothing is published until it has cleared a verification gate — here's the whole loop.

1 · Ingest

The pipeline pulls fresh articles from a set of trusted RSS feeds and de-duplicates them, so the same story arriving from several places is only handled once.

2 · Cluster & triage

A single batched model call groups the raw items into distinct stories, tags each by topic and region, and flags what looks like breaking news. Stories already covered in recent runs are filtered out so the feed doesn't repeat itself.

3 · Verify

Each story is cross-checked across its sources. The more independent sources agree, the higher its confidence score, and the story is marked cleared, mixed (sources disagree), or unverified. Stories that can't clear the bar are held back, not published. This is the heart of the whole thing — more on verification.

4 · Write

Only then does the pipeline write the post — a clean headline, a one-line gist, and a typeset body in the Gist Dey voice — with attribution to the sources it drew on.

5 · Publish

The finished post lands in the feed in real time. A live indicator tells you when newer gist has arrived while you're reading.

Models & images

Gist Dey is Haiku-first: a fast, low-cost model handles ingest, clustering and tagging, while the verification and writing stages can be routed to a stronger model where trust and prose matter most. Lead images are Creative-Commons pictures matched to each story's topic, captioned with their creator and licence — they're illustrative, not photos of the specific event.

Last updated May 2026