For Local news / community newspaper operator · 24 Grok Bots

A newsroom back office that keeps the daily coming — and every fact cited

24 Grok Bots for a solo or tiny local newsroom: discover and map your beats, scan them each morning, build the sourced fact sheet, draft every section, gate for standards, and assemble the approved edition and your Substack — all as drafts a named human editor approves. A human reports the facts; nothing publishes, sends, or files on its own. Real newsroom, cited sources, disclosed AI — not pink slime.

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● Drafts only — nothing sends without your approval · Uses only your own data
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24 bots·19 domain specialists·Success metric: Verified local stories published per week·Category: Creators & media
The problem it targets

One or two people running a whole 20th-century newsroom and the small business behind it at once — attending council and school-board meetings, interviewing coaches, business owners, and grieving families, then transcribing all of it, chasing public records, writing eight sections, laying it out, sending the newsletter, and posting it all — so half the stories that should be covered never get written and the day runs out before the work is done.

What you get

From day one

1

A per-section entity and source map your Source & Entity Scout builds from your own public lists and proposes for you to approve — so every beat works a discrete, editor-approved watch-set, never an open-ended "go find news."

2

A daily story budget the Beat Scanner sweeps from only those approved maps and your tip inbox, and a sourced fact sheet per story that separates what's verified from what still needs your reporting.

3

House-style drafts for every beat — government and public safety, business, sports, arts and events, education, faith, obituaries, and seasonal elections — each gated by a standards copy desk for sources, right-of-reply, and defamation before your Lead Editor approves it as editor of record.

4

The approved edition assembled for you — your newsletter, homepage digest, and a Substack edition from your already-published stories, with license-clear imagery drafted by the Photo Desk and your site and app kept running by an Engineering desk that ships changes only on your approval.

Meet the team

24 bots, each with one job and clear approval points

Read-only bots watch and prepare; drafting bots write but never send. You approve everything that leaves.

1

Chief of Staff

coach
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Your morning brief, meeting prep, fleet roundup, and after-meeting coaching.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
2

Lead Editor

coordinator
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
The story budget, desk assignments, the standards gate, and the approved `in_review` set
Approves: files the approved set as named editor of record; **never publishes or emails**
3

Beat Scanner / Assignment Desk

intake
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
The morning story budget swept from the approved maps and the tip inbox
Approves: none (hands the budget to the Lead Editor)
4

Source & Entity Scout

researcher
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
Discovering NEW sources and entities and writing editor-approve-ready maps per section
Approves: the editor approves each map in `/admin` before any desk sweeps it
5

Research & Fact Desk

researcher
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
The sourced fact sheet per story with a confirm-before-publishing list
Approves: none (never publishable on its own)
6

Staff Writer / Drafter

drafter
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
House-style drafts from reported material, missing facts marked `[TK]`
Approves: copy desk, then the editor before publish
7

Copy Desk & Standards Reviewer

specialist
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
The pre-publication gate — source check, right-of-reply, defamation flags, go/no-go
Approves: none (feeds the editor's approval)
8

Production & Publishing Coordinator

coordinator
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Formatting the approved article and verifying the set inside the CoS auto-publish window
Approves: the editor's approval is the gate; this desk verifies format and never publishes
9

Corrections & Legal-Risk Monitor

tracker
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
The corrections log and page; complaint, takedown, and retraction tracking
Approves: none (the editor and counsel decide)
10

Engineering Desk

coordinator
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
The site, app, repository, and deploy — code and config as reviewable pull requests
Approves: the operator approves every release to production; it stands up no accounts
11

Government & Public Safety Desk

reporter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Council, county, school-board, and public-safety recaps from the record, off its approved maps
Approves: editor approval before publish; negative/criminal facts held for editor and counsel
12

Business & Economy Desk

reporter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Openings, closings, development, permits, hiring, and localized economics, sourced
Approves: editor approval before publish
13

Local Sports Desk

reporter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Draft high-school, university, and pro game recaps and previews from final scores, official athletics releases, broadcast transcripts, and the human's box-score notes only, working its editor-approved maps, covering student-athletes from the public record, never inventing a stat.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
14

Arts, Culture & Events Desk

reporter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Draft arts, music, and theater previews and reviews strictly from provided material, and maintain a structured community events calendar whose every date, venue, and time is verified from an official or submitted source, working its editor-approved venue maps — for the editor to approve.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
15

Education Desk

reporter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Draft school-board recaps and district/school news strictly from board agendas, minutes, the board- meeting recording the human filed, and official district and school announcements, honoring the minors policy for any student detail, and working only its editor-approved district/school maps.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
16

Edition & Newsletter Desk

drafter
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Assemble the day's already-published, approved stories into a newsletter, a homepage digest, and a Substack edition draft — pulling from the org's own published content only — then hand the Substack draft to Substack Desk for a human to greenlight and send.
Approves: sends
17

Substack Desk

coordinator
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Take the Substack edition draft that Edition & Newsletter Desk assembled and post it to the org's own Substack only after a named human greenlights that exact edition — keeping the greenlight on the same line as the post, and never creating the account or changing the story.
Approves: sends; settings changes
18

Photo Desk

specialist
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Source license-clear imagery for an approved story from Wikimedia, government, and Creative Commons sources only — no identifiable people in Phase-1 art — and hand the editor a story id, image URL, and a drafted alt text, credit, and caption for Engineering or Production to place, inventing no news.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
19

Faith & Nonprofit Desk

reporter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Draft briefs on congregations, service times, outreach, and local service-org and charity news from submitted announcements and official notices only, working its editor-approved congregation and nonprofit maps, getting every named person, org, and time right — for the editor to approve.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
20

Obituaries Desk (draft-only)

drafter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Format and lightly copyedit submitted obituaries into house style from family or funeral-home submissions and official death notices only, never confirming a death or a biographical detail on the desk's own authority — every obit routes to a human to confirm with the family or home before approval.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
21

Classifieds & Marketplace Moderator

specialist
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Intake and format classified submissions (jobs, housing, marketplace), screen every listing for prohibited or illegal content and for Fair-Housing and EEO violations, and flag anything suspicious or discriminatory for human review before it publishes — a human clears every flagged listing.
Approves: sends
22

Community Tips & Comments Triage

intake
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Triage the tip line, reader email, letters to the editor, and comment moderation — route credible tips to the Lead Editor, draft routine acknowledgments for a human to send, and immediately escalate anything touching threats or confidential sources to a human.
Approves: sends
23

Election Desk (seasonal)

reporter
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Draft even-handed coverage of the offices on the ballot, the certified candidates, and the filing and voting deadlines strictly from the county clerk / board of elections record, balanced across candidates, never calling a result — for the editor to approve; dormant except near an election.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
24

Outreach & Referrals

growth
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Draft posts and outreach to your own audience, credited and approved by you.
Approves: sends
The handoff — one shared chat
Editor→Desk→Scout→Desk→Drafter→Reviewer→Coordinator
What the fleet does in week one

All read-and-prepare — you check its work before anything is trusted

What it does not do

The guardrails are the product

  • ×It drafts; it does not publish. A named human editor approves every article, and a human reports every fact — no bot invents a fact, quote, source, name, or number, and the Lead Editor files the approved set but never publishes or emails.
  • ×It never invents an entity for a map, assembles an obituary from the web, clears its own flagged classified, posts your Substack without your greenlight, or resolves a legal or correction matter on its own.
  • ×It works only your own opted-in audience and links and credits other outlets — it never reaches a contact you don't own and never republishes another outlet's reporting, even when it transcribes local audio or video to find the story.
  • ×It does not run your daily weather forecast — that is a platform feature your site template renders from your city's coordinates, not a bot. Severe-weather alerts and closings are different: those are covered as Government & Public-Safety news, with your editor approving each before it publishes.
Verified
local stories published per week
How you'll know it's working

One number, measured over time

The count of editor-approved articles that shipped with a complete source list, tracked weekly — the measure of a credible daily product growing without an accuracy failure

Pricing

Cancel anytime.

Workplace AI provisions and runs your CrokPot fleet on our Cursor Teams workspace. We invite you on your own email — you accept, install Grok Bot, and we handle the rest.
$200/mo
  • Your whole fleet provisioned and installed for you
  • Cursor Teams seat included — paid by Workplace AI, never billed by Cursor
  • Onboarding + ongoing training
Hire the team
Your Cursor Teams seat is included and paid by Workplace AI. Drafts only, using your own data. No earnings, time-saved, or outcome guarantees are made.
How access works

You buy a CrokPot fleet from Workplace AI — not a Cursor plan

CrokPot runs on Workplace AI, Inc.’s (WAI) Cursor Teams workspace. WAI keeps the unpaid admin seat and pays Cursor for your seat. You join as the invited user on your real email and work through the installed Grok Bot fleet.

Your card is charged by WAI via Stripe for the CrokPot fleet ($200/mo, auto-renewing monthly) only — never by Cursor. If you cancel your fleet subscription, the invite/seat ends with it and is not portable to your own Cursor account.

FAQ

What you get, who owns the seat, and what happens after you pay

From the team behind Ancestry — CrokPot is built by Paul Allen, a co-founder of Ancestry.com.

Drafts only — you approve everythingYour own data, never shared$200/mo · cancel anytimeProvisioned & supported by Workplace AI

What do I actually get?

A pre-built fleet of Grok Bots for your trade, provisioned and installed for you on Workplace AI’s Cursor Teams workspace, plus onboarding and ongoing training. Every bot drafts; you approve.

Who owns the seat?

Workplace AI, Inc. (WAI) owns the Cursor Teams account and pays Cursor for your seat. You’re invited as a paid user on your own email. The seat isn’t portable to a personal Cursor account.

Do the bots act on their own?

No. The fleet is drafts-only, working from your own data. Nothing sends, files, or is trusted until you review and approve it — that’s the whole design.

Can I cancel?

Yes, anytime. It’s an auto-renewing monthly subscription at $200/mo. If you cancel, your invite/seat ends with the subscription.

What happens after I pay?

We follow up soon: our team provisions your fleet and invites you on the email you used at checkout. Watch for your Cursor Teams invite and Grok Bot download link, then accept, install, and go.

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