First look at the feed
Open the feed, read the signals around each story, and open your first localized draft.
When onboarding finishes, you land in /app/feed. This is where most of your daily work happens.
What you see
A virtualised list of stories, each with the signals you need to triage:
Headline + summary
The localised headline HermesAI generated, plus a short event summary.
Confidence read
A weighted signal based on how many sources cover the event, source tier, agreement, and recency.
Conflict markers
Visible when sources disagree on a fact. The disagreement is shown, not smoothed over.
Sensitive flag
Set when the story involves deaths, politics, legal proceedings, medical claims, or armed conflict. These hold for review by design.
Pipeline phase
Where the story is right now: collecting, clustering, synthesizing, review, or published.
Source count
How many outlets cover this event. Higher counts feed into confidence.
What to do first
Wait for the first batch
Right after onboarding, the feed may show "Collecting". HermesAI is fetching the first round of source coverage for your vertical. Most users see the first stories within a few minutes.
Skim the top of the feed
Sort is by recency and confidence. The top of the feed is your active queue — read the headline, glance at the signals, decide whether to open.
Open one story
Click into the story workspace. You'll see the localised draft (or a placeholder if compose hasn't run yet), provenance, and the desk timeline.
Read or refine
If the draft reads well, you can route it for review. If you want changes, use compose or the refinement chat. See Story workspace.
What the signals mean in plain terms
Confidence is not certainty
A high confidence read means HermesAI saw multiple credible sources agreeing on the facts. It doesn't mean the story is true beyond doubt — it means the editor has good ground to stand on while reviewing.
A low confidence read means either few sources cover it or sources disagree. Either way, slow down and look at the conflict markers before you publish.
Sensitive flags hold for review
Stories about deaths, political figures, legal proceedings, medical claims, or armed conflict carry a sensitive flag and always route through editorial review — regardless of confidence. This is a hard rule, not a default you can turn off. See Sensitive coverage.
What's next
Feed reference
Filtering, sorting, freshness, quota pressure, and how to triage at speed.
Story workspace
Reading the draft, compose, refinement chat, submitting for review.
Pipeline phases
What collecting / clustering / synthesizing / review / published actually mean.
Roles
What you can and cannot do, depending on your role.