RE::DACT is an editorial workspace built by a journalist who spent twenty years switching between five different apps to write one article. Google Docs for the draft. A browser for research. A notepad for interview notes. A spreadsheet for contacts. A chat window for AI. All disconnected. All slow. All fighting each other for screen space while the clock runs out.
We built the tool we wished existed. One workspace where you research, write, verify, and analyze — all at once, side by side. Not a generic writing app with AI bolted on. A tool that understands how a newsroom actually works, because the people who built it lived in one.
Your context. Your story. Better tools to tell it.
A text editor on the left. A notes panel on the right. AI that already knows what you're working on. Select any text, any note — it becomes context with one click. No copy-pasting into prompts. No explaining your story from scratch every time you ask a question. Set your publication's style, your editorial standards, your beat — once. The AI remembers. Every response already fits your work.
This is the difference between a tool that generates text and a tool that understands your journalism.
Four modes, one workspace — no waiting
RE::DACT gives you four specialized AI modes: Write helps you draft and edit based on your notes and context. Research finds information, sources, and published coverage. Check evaluates your text for factual accuracy, weak claims, and editorial gaps. Analyze handles documents — summarizing long reports, extracting data, processing files.
Here's the key: you can run all four at the same time. Start a research query, switch to writing while it works, send a paragraph to fact-checking in parallel. You don't wait for one agent to finish before starting the next. The AI works around your pace, not the other way around.
And then there's Orson — your voice assistant. He runs research, opens notes, summarizes results, and saves findings while your hands are on the wheel. Journalism doesn't stop when you leave the desk.
AI that helps you work, not replaces your work
Let's be clear about what RE::DACT is not. It's not an article generator. It's not a robot journalist. It doesn't write stories for you and it never will. The creative decisions — what matters, what's true, what the reader needs to know — those are yours. Always.
What RE::DACT does is take the monotonous work off your plate. The background research you'd spend an hour on. The fact-checking you'd do with twenty open tabs. The document you'd read three times to find one number. We handle the tedium so you have more time for the work that actually matters — the thinking, the writing, the journalism.
Your sources stay yours
Journalists protect their sources. So does RE::DACT. The placeholder system anonymizes names and identities before anything reaches the AI. PII scrubbing removes emails and phone numbers before API calls. Your source's identity never leaves your machine. This isn't an optional feature — it's how the system works.
Proof, not promises
Every AI interaction in RE::DACT is cryptographically recorded. What was requested. What was generated. What you changed, rejected, or accepted. SHA-256 hashes on the Hedera hashgraph — tamper-proof, independently verifiable, impossible to falsify after the fact. When someone asks "did AI write this?", you don't explain. You show a certificate.
Built by a journalist. For journalists.
We didn't adapt a Silicon Valley productivity tool for newsrooms. We didn't ask a focus group what journalists might want. We built the tool that was missing from our own desk for twenty years — and we built it the way journalists actually work: fast, parallel, skeptical, and with the story always in the center.
Your context. Your story. Better tools to tell it.