How Novaly Curates from Verified Sources

One of the questions we get most often is: how do I know the information in my newsletter is accurate?

It is a fair question. The story of AI-generated content is full of confident hallucinations — facts that sound plausible, sources that do not exist, statistics assembled from nowhere. We built Novaly around a deliberate answer to that problem.

Here is how it works.

Step one: finding the sources

Before any text is written for your edition, Novaly queries verified sources for the most recent and relevant articles on your topic.

"Verified" means indexed journalism, institutional publications, research outputs, and official announcements — not social media, not comment threads, not content farms. The query is shaped by your prompt: the angle you specified, the exclusions you set, the type of coverage you asked for.

The result is a ranked list of articles from the current news cycle. Typically five. These are the raw material for your edition.

If relevant articles from reputable sources are not available — because the news cycle has moved on, or because your topic is genuinely quiet that week — the edition waits until there is something worth saying. We do not fill space.

Step two: reading, not retrieving

There is a meaningful difference between retrieving content and reading it.

Retrieval is what a search engine does: find the document, extract some text, move on. The summary that comes out is often just the first two sentences of each article stitched together.

What Novaly does is closer to reading: the full text of each source article is processed, the key arguments and findings are identified, and the relevant parts — according to your brief — are selected. An article about EU AI regulation might be fifteen hundred words long. Your newsletter might need only the three paragraphs that deal with startup exemptions, because that is what you asked for.

This is why the prompt matters so much. Without a specific brief, curation defaults to the obvious. With a precise angle, the same source material produces something genuinely different for each reader.

Step three: writing the edition

Once the source material has been curated and the relevant sections identified, the edition is written.

The writing follows the structure of your prompt: the depth you asked for, the tone you implied, the framing you specified. It is not a copy-paste of the source articles. It is a synthesis — a single, coherent newsletter that reads as if one editor had gone through everything relevant that week and distilled it for you specifically.

Every claim in the edition corresponds to something in the source material. That is the constraint that prevents hallucination: we cannot write something that did not appear in a verified article first.

What this means in practice

This approach has consequences worth understanding:

Your edition reflects the news cycle. If the sources are silent on something, your newsletter will not cover it — even if you asked for it. This is a feature, not a limitation. It means the edition you receive is grounded in what actually happened, not in what a model thinks might have happened.

Your prompt shapes the editorial lens, not the facts. You can specify the angle, the framing, and the emphasis. You cannot specify the conclusions. The conclusions follow from the sources.

Factual errors are possible but traceable. If a source article contains an error, that error can appear in your edition. We inherit the quality of the journalism we draw from. If you spot something that does not seem right, the source is always the starting point for checking.

A note on transparency

We believe you should be able to trust what you read without having to verify every sentence. That trust is earned through process, not promises.

The process described here is the whole process. There is no other layer. No model inventing context, no system generating plausible-sounding facts to fill gaps. Just sources, curation, and synthesis — in that order, every time.

That is what "curated from verified sources" means. We say it because it is exactly what we do.