How We Use AI

AppStack Insider uses AI throughout its editorial process, and we believe readers deserve to know exactly how. This page describes the pipeline as it actually works — not a marketing version of it.

1. Topic discovery

Software continuously monitors public sources — official vendor blogs and changelogs, SEC filings, established tech publications, developer communities, and search trends. Candidate topics are scored for relevance to B2B software buyers; most are rejected automatically for being too broad, unverifiable, or off-topic.

2. Source verification before writing

For a topic to proceed, our system must locate the underlying sources: ideally an official (primary) announcement from the company involved, or multiple established publications. We fetch the full text of those sources. Topics fail this gate — and no article is written — when the key claim or figure in a headline cannot be found in credible source material, when the named company is not actually the subject of the available sources, or when only low-quality aggregator coverage exists.

3. AI-assisted drafting with hard constraints

A large language model drafts the article from the verified source material only. The draft is then checked programmatically: every significant number and date in the text must exist in the source material; cited sources must match the ones actually retrieved; internal links must point to real pages. A separate AI reviewer then evaluates the draft for unsupported claims, missing attribution, and editorial quality, and can demand a rewrite or block publication.

4. Human review

Articles that pass automated checks are held for human editorial review before they are published and indexed. The editor verifies key facts against the linked sources and approves, edits, or rejects the draft. Anything the pipeline flags as uncertain is either resolved or stated explicitly in the article's "What remains unclear" section.

What this means for you as a reader

• Every article lists its sources with direct links — you can verify anything we publish.
• We explicitly separate confirmed facts from open questions instead of papering over gaps.
• Each article carries a disclosure note about AI assistance and a direct corrections channel.
• If we get something wrong, we fix it visibly — see the Corrections Policy.

What AI does not do here

AI does not invent facts, quotes, experts, or sources on this site — the pipeline is built specifically to prevent that, and drafts that attempt it are blocked. AI also does not decide what ultimately gets published: a human does. Authorship is attributed to the AppStack Insider Editorial Team rather than to fictional writers, because that is what it is.

Questions about this process? Write to info@appstackinsider.com.