Editorial method and use of AI

How Pulse ranks trends

Pulse is our public daily ranking of emerging stories. Signals are collected continuously from news, social, scientific, financial and institutional sources across 50 countries and 28 languages. Mentions of the same story are grouped together, including when they appear in different languages.

Each story is scored throughout the day on five factors:

• Velocity — how fast attention is accelerating against the topic's own baseline.
• Diversity — how many independent kinds of sources are involved.
• Recency — how fresh the signals are.
• Cohesion — whether the mentions genuinely describe the same story.
• SEO opportunity — whether search demand is rising faster than coverage.

The blend between these factors is calibrated per category and refined over time, so we do not publish fixed weights. Every day the strongest stories are snapshotted, globally and per region and category, and archived at a permanent dated URL that never changes. The full description is on the Pulse methodology page.

The short title and description on each Pulse entry are produced automatically from the signals; nobody edits them one by one. That is why each entry links to a trend page showing its score since detection and whether recognised outlets have covered it yet, so you can check the evidence yourself.

How articles are drafted and reviewed

In the product, an article starts from a brief built on a trend's sources. The editorial AI drafts the piece with inline citations to those sources, so each claim can be traced back to where it came from.

The draft then opens in the editor, where a person reads it, checks the sources, edits it and decides whether to publish. Publishing to a site is either a manual action or a schedule that the customer sets up themselves. AI proposes; people decide.

How we write this site

Posts on the EarlyForge blog are signed by Carnegie, the founder, and each one is reviewed by him before it is published. When AI helps with research or a first draft, every fact is checked against its source before publication. A post that is revised carries its update date.

Sources

• We link to the original source — an official statement, the original report, the document itself — rather than to a copy of it.
• Facts about other companies come from their own public pages, with the date we consulted them. If we cannot verify a fact, we leave it out.
• We only state figures about EarlyForge that we can stand behind publicly, and we describe how the ranking works without publishing internal numbers.
• Pulse data is published under CC BY 4.0: you can quote and reuse it with attribution.

Corrections

If you find an error on Pulse, on the blog or anywhere on this site, email support@earlyforge.ai with the page address and what should change, or use the contact page. We review every report, correct the page when we were wrong and update its date.

Limits

A trend score is a decision aid, not a verdict: dynamics differ between categories and countries, and an early signal can fade. AI drafts can contain mistakes, which is why a person reviews them. Editorial judgement always stays with the reader and the editor.

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