The platform
One desk, from tip-off to publish
DigiDesk is where our newsroom research ends up — aggregation, writing, publishing and media, in one place your editors already understand.
Why a platform and not another tool
A story passes through several systems between the moment somebody notices it and the moment a reader sees it. It is spotted in one place, researched in another, written in a third, illustrated from a fourth, translated somewhere else, and published from the system that was bought first and has outlived all of them.
Every one of those handoffs is where time goes, and every one is a place a separate AI tool gets bolted on. That is how newsrooms end up with six subscriptions, four logins and no measurable change to how long anything takes.
DigiDesk is the accumulation of our research in news media, assembled as one desk. The modules share the same models and the same understanding of your material, which is why the media library knows what the writing tool is working on and the translation step knows what was published. That is the part that is hard to buy separately.
Modules
What DigiDesk does
Six modules. Most newsrooms start with one and add the rest once it has earned its place.
Aggregation desk
Pulls in from every source you watch and surfaces what an editor should see, so the output is a shortlist rather than another feed to read.
Assisted writing
A drafting tool that works alongside a writer on research, structure and revision. The judgement stays where it belongs.
Publishing pipeline
Approved draft through to live, with the automated steps sitting inside the workflow your desk already runs.
Media library
Everything you have shot or photographed, labelled and searchable by what is actually in it rather than by filename.
Translation and dubbing
One story, several languages — translation, transcription and dubbing without a separate production run for each.
Reader widgets
Recommendations, audio versions of articles and analytics that drop into the site you already have.
The archive
And the archive you already have
DigiDesk handles what is being made now. News Agent handles everything you have already made — the archive, exposed so an editor can ask it a question in a sentence instead of writing a query.
News Agent
Included, or standaloneA server over your news database
Your archive is exposed through Model Context Protocol, so queries are handled flexibly instead of being locked to endpoints somebody has to maintain.
A server over your APIs
The systems you already run are wrapped the same way, so an agent can reach live data as well as history without a bespoke connector for each one.
Answers, with the stories behind them
Retrieval runs over your own material and answers carry the reporting they came from, so an editor can check rather than trust.
Bring your own assistant
Because the interface is a standard one, you are not tied to our chat surface. Point your own assistant at it and it works.
Questions
Frequently asked
Does DigiDesk replace our CMS?
No. It sits alongside what you run and integrates with it. Replacing a working publishing system is rarely the problem worth solving.
Does it write stories on its own?
No. The writing tool assists a journalist with research, structure and revision. Nothing publishes without a person deciding it should.
Can it run inside our own network?
Yes. On-premise deployment is a normal configuration, including with a locally hosted model so no content leaves your infrastructure.
Do we have to take the whole platform?
No. The modules are separable. Most newsrooms start with aggregation or the media library and add the rest once it has earned its place.
How does it handle our archive?
Through News Agent, which exposes your news database so an editor can ask it questions in plain language instead of writing queries.
What languages does it work in?
Translation, transcription and dubbing are multilingual. Which languages perform well for your material is something we test during the engagement rather than assert up front.
Want to see it against your own material?
Every deployment is tuned to the desk running it. Tell us how your newsroom works and what it is stuck on, and we will tell you honestly which modules are worth starting with.