Swiss-built · Internal desk
The research pulse behind swissvox. Sources in. Judgment stays human.
swissheartbeat is the internal desk of swissvox. It gathers press, lines up related reporting, and flags gaps. It does not write the article. It does not score the truth.
The Challenge
Information moves faster than reporting can stand behind it.
AI is fluent and fast. That is not journalism. A finished sentence is not a source. swissvox uses machines to sort what is on the table — then a person reads, calls, and writes.
articles published by a model. If it was not read by the desk, it does not ship.
voice per newsroom. Three pieces from the same desk are not three sources.
rule: the editor signs the piece. The desk does not.
“International press is raw material. The Swiss hook and the original call are the story.”
Sources on the table. The editor still has to read them.
Built for
Architecture
Five steps between a claim and a piece worth signing.
Ingestion
Incoming press. Swiss and international feeds, plus URLs the editor adds by hand.
Verification
Related reporting is lined up. Same outlet counts once. Dates and near-duplicates are marked. No score.
Briefing
The desk produces a dossier: related, same-event candidate, possible contradiction, off topic. A reading list, not a verdict.
Reporting
The editor decides the question, makes the call, opens the file. One original fact is required before a piece is called reporting.
swissvox
The article goes out under a name. Lage, Spur, or Standpunkt — labeled. Heartbeat never publishes.
Method
Rigor is a process, not a score.
Independence is not a model output. It is the editor choosing the question, the sources, and the sentence.
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Source, then read
Named publishers and documents the desk has opened. The open web is not a witness. If it was not read, it is not a source.
- 02
Separate voices
Corroboration means different newsrooms, not three rewrites of the same wire. Agency copy plus a reprint is one voice.
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Show the gap
Ambiguity stays visible. Missing calls and missing numbers are listed. Nothing is smoothed into a confidence figure.
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The human is the loop
Not an edge-case reviewer. The editor assigns the job, writes the piece, and stands behind it.
The Engine
One desk. No article leaves it finished.
swissheartbeat stays inside the newsroom. Editors paste a claim, get a dossier, and go to work. There is no public answer API.
- Live feeds from Swiss publishers
- Source list with dates and duplicates
- Labels for reading, not a trust rank
- Work stays with the editor, in Switzerland
claim: "Beloved foundation seeks further funds"
desk:
label: same_event_candidate
sources:
- srf.ch — Stiftung «Beloved» erhält 70 Gesuche
note: "Read the piece. Then call. Then write."Vision
The value of a newsroom is not how fast it answers. It is whether the published sentence still holds when someone checks the source.
swissvox takes the international press as raw material and looks for the Swiss hook — law, firm, agency, money, neutrality. That is the work. Speed is not.
The long-term goal is a publication you can argue with, because a person signed it. swissheartbeat remains the quiet desk behind that name.