What the desks are doing

The pipeline at a glance

From capture to article

Each capture the curator mapped (left, by beat), the story candidates it suggested (middle) and the articles published from them (right). A line is a candidate resting on a capture; green is the path to a published article. A capture with no line is one the curator kept as background or marked not a story. Hover a dot for its source and when it was first mapped.

Run by run

Every curator run in desks/curator/, oldest first: what it added. The researcher runs four times a day into its vault; the curator reads the vault after it and maps what is new.

Every story candidate

Newest first, with the captures it rests on and, where there is one, the article it became.

Captures by beat

What the curator asked the researcher

The gaps still open at the curator's latest run: what it wants the researcher to look for next.

• {"desk":"ai","priority":2,"gap":"More of theme 2: Portuguese AI companies, labs and programmes beyond AMALIA and Neuraspace.","reader_angle":"Who builds AI in Portugal.","sources_wanted":"Companies' and labs' own pages; Portuguese press.","why_not_a_duplicate":"Three items captured."} (first asked 15 Nov 11:50)
• {"desk":"portugal","priority":1,"gap":"ARTE's release and the ANIA documents; the AMALIA paper's full text (model size, data, scores); an investor's post on Neuraspace.","reader_angle":"Primary sources behind S64 and S66.","sources_wanted":"ARTE, FCT; the paper; Armilar, Lince Capital.","why_not_a_duplicate":"Only the abstract, news items and the company's page are captured."} (first asked 15 Nov 15:50)

Questions for the fact-checker

Where two captures disagree, or a figure needs settling before a story can carry it. Newest first.

• **** (15 Nov 15:50): The company's own page claims minutes against 8 hours for an operator; that is its claim, not a measured result. The operator keeps the decision: say it as the page says it.
• **** (15 Nov 15:50): The paper's results (matches baselines on translated benchmarks, better on pt-PT-specific tests) are the authors' own, in a preprint; only the abstract was read. Say so.
• **** (15 Nov 11:50): TechEU's report is dated 5 August and AICEP's 3 September: the round is not new; present it with both dates.
• **** (15 Nov 11:50): Researcher count: the government's explainer and NOVA FCT say around 60 (seven universities named by the explainer, five by NOVA FCT); INESC-ID says 80. Report as attributed; do not settle it.
• **** (15 Nov 07:50): One official source relaying the company's own figures (revenue growth, satellites, contracts). The item gives no model detail. Dated 3 Sep, so the round is not new; present it as such.
• **** (14 Nov 17:30): The 300 sign-ups and the presentation at Web Summit 2026 come from the company through two papers drawn from one wording; no independent report or count was found. The platform's own page counts its links (642 selected sites): do not present that as users.
• **** (14 Nov 15:45): The two institutions disagree on the number of researchers (INESC-ID: 80; NOVA FCT: around 60). Report both, attributed, and say the difference is not settled. The Apache 2.0 tag is on one checkpoint's page (AMALIA-9B-0626-DPO), not stated for the whole project.
• **** (14 Nov 11:50): The AMALIA page is the institute's own account: the consortium, the model's size and its licence are not on it. ANIA's documents and funding were not read by the researcher.
• **** (12 Nov 15:40): The seed round is a Sifted report relayed by Portugal Startup News; Sifted's original is not read.
• **** (12 Nov 15:40): Humanos's country: Tek (created 2025 in Madeira) and Portugal Startup News (Lisbon-based) against our published S29 (from the United States, from a Web Summit page). Whether S29 needs a correction is for the reviewer.
• **** (12 Nov 11:40): Everything rests on PagerDuty's own pages: attribution must be exact; the post is from 11 June and Paige is from 3 Nov 2026.
• **** (12 Nov 07:40): The hub rests on Discord's recruiting text; the press report is not yet read by anyone on the team. A job posting says what the company intends, not what exists.
• **** (11 Nov 20:25): The four Web Summit facts rest on Vicky's browser read at 20:15 UTC, attributed to Web Summit; the journalist cannot re-read them by machine. Every other fact is checked at its own source with a read time.
• **** (10 Nov 2230 ):
• **** (10 Nov 2050 ):
• **** (10 Nov 1710 ):
• **** (10 Nov 1410 ):
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• **** (10 Nov 01:10): All are vendors' own accounts (Mastra, GetVocal, Gravitee); the customers (Teamworks, PFF, Glovo, WPP) have no source of their own here. Gravitee's survey method was not read.
• **** (09 Nov 18:50): Titles, times, stages and speakers are as Web Summit's session pages gave them at 18:16 on 9 Nov; times may change, as the agenda notes. Nothing about the content of any press conference is known.
• **** (09 Nov 14:55): Still open: Web Summit's featured page says United States, the Startup Portugal list says Madeira; the researcher captured both and could not settle it.
• **** (09 Nov 14:55): One source, AICEP's own page. The stand's other occupants and its programme are not captured; do not state them.
• **** (09 Nov 10:45): Everything rests on IBM's one post, which says six showcase startups but lists five. Check the showcase day and the prize wording against the post on the day of writing.
• **** (09 Nov 05:45): Counts per city and sector are the curator's from the 78-entry list; the writer should recount from the article.
• **** (09 Nov 05:45): S3 says up to 125 Portuguese companies were to be selected; the Portugal Startup News article says 78 were selected. S3 may want an update line with the 78.
• **** (09 Nov 05:45): S29 says Humanos is from the United States, as Web Summit's featured-startups page shows; the Startup Portugal list, as reported by Portugal Startup News, gives Madeira. The two sources disagree; check Humanos's own page and correct or qualify S29.
• **** (08 Nov 18:45): Page 1 of 26 only, so these are samples, not the list. Pitches are the companies' own words; figures and awards inside them (for example Armeta's) must not be repeated unchecked. Countries are as the page shows them.
• **** (08 Nov 14:45): Page 1 of 26 only; the page's own tags are not checked here. No story rests on it yet.
• **** (08 Nov 10:45): Only the page's first view was read and its order rotates, so the five are a sample of the lineup, not the lineup; the story must say so. Countries are as the page shows them. What each company does is not in the capture.
• **** (07 Nov 19:45): Who sends the email and to whom is, per the page, the Web Summit team's; keep the story to what the page says.
• **** (07 Nov 19:45): The session counts per building are the site's own programme data on 7 November; they will change as the programme does. The OpenStreetMap credit (ODbL) must stay with any use of the map.
• **** (07 Nov 11:45): The note says the conductor holds a copy of the private half of each key it issues; check that the story keeps that limit beside the benefit.
• **** (06 Nov 19:45): The page is undated and calls the arena by its former name, Altice Arena (now MEO Arena, as the capture notes); use MEO Arena and say the times come from the parish council. Street times differ from the general 19:00 on 8 November to 23:00 on 12 November window (Rua do Bojador from 06:00 on 8 November); quote each street as listed. The council says the closures are not its own decision; the capture does not say whose they are.
• **** (06 Nov 11:45): The capacity growth is the company's own figure ('According to the company'); credit it to the company. The 1.2 million euros is expected, not raised.
• S21 (06 Nov 07:45): Granter's round was led by 3xP Global's Impact Innovation Fund (r1255-15); Octo Health's by 3xP Global (this capture); Intuitivo's by Caixa Capital and 'the Impact Innovation Fund' (r1255-19), not named as 3xP's. Keep Intuitivo out of the 3xP link until checked (as for S14).
• **** (06 Nov 07:45): The 2.7 million euro round is Portugal Startup News citing Jornal Económico; attribute it. HIPAA and GDPR are the company's own statements; attribute them as such.
• all (05 Nov 20:10): Each connection pairs facts from separate captures; check each fact at its own source and keep the pairing worded as the newsroom's suggestion.
• S14 (05 Nov 20:10): Whether Granter's and Intuitivo's Impact Innovation Fund are the same fund (r1255-15 names 3xP Global; r1255-19 does not).
• the EY figures (05 Nov 19:45): All figures are Executive Digest's account of the EY report; the report itself was not read. Attribute them to EY, as reported; the researcher could capture the report itself (gap).
• bus lines (05 Nov 19:45): The Carris lines in this capture differ in part from those on websummit.com/essentials/the-city/. S1 should name the shuttle and leave line numbers out until checked.
• where the transport pass is sold (05 Nov 19:45): Carris (via Executive Digest, 5 November) names the Web Summit Welcome Center as well as the airport; Metro's page and Executive Digest of 4 November name only the airport. S1 should say 'at Lisbon airport' only, until checked.
• **** (05 Nov 11:45): Only the lineup's first page was read: 'leads with' describes that page, not the whole programme. The researcher did not confirm an AgiBot A3 robot as a speaker (reported by PanAsiaBiz); leave it out. The PanAsiaBiz and Portugal.fr reports of a robotics theme are not captured beyond what this page shows.
• **** (05 Nov 07:45): The 'Portugal Pavilion Congress Centre' is named as written in the source; the curator does not know whether it is the Pavilhão de Portugal used for registration (r1255-02). Do not join the two without a source.
• **** (05 Nov 07:45): The ranking, the Dealroom figures and the four unicorns are ULisboa's own claims about itself, citing others: attribute them to ULisboa (and to Startup Portugal or Dealroom as it cites them), never state them as the newsroom's.
• how many people are expected (04 Nov 19:45): Web Summit expects more than 70,000 attendees; Metro de Lisboa's operation is sized for about 75,000 participants; the 2025 record was 71,386 (as Executive Digest gives the organisers' data). Not a contradiction, but three different numbers: each should be attributed to its own source.
• a one-day transport pass (04 Nov 19:45): Metro de Lisboa's page mentions a one-day pass sold online alongside the 3 and 5 day passes; Executive Digest (4 November) reports no online sales, no vouchers and no one-day pass this year; Web Summit's getting-around page lists a 1, 3 or 5 day pass. The researcher quoted both and did not resolve it. Until it is checked, S1 should give only the 3 and 5 day passes and where they are sold, which every source agrees on.

Where this comes from

Built at every release from the curator's runs (desks/curator/*.json, written by curator@web-summit.vicky) and the story: line of each article's front matter, by newsroom/build/features/desks.mjs: a load, extract, transform and save cycle, whose saved model is api/v1/newsroom/desks.json. The researcher's own summaries stay in its vault; only what the curator copied into its runs appears here. The words on this page are content/newsroom/desks.md; the code only fills in the numbers and the tables.

Silvio's news scout keeps its own staging list of candidates, not published: the news scout's candidates.

Interviews

How a recorded interview becomes a page: the interview pipeline.

• Guy Ben Zvi, Buzz Messaging AI: interview at Web Summit's opening night: interviewed by Dinis Cruz, the video played from the public interviews vault and decrypted in the browser.
• Leo Tashev and Fraser Lloyd, Student Property Network: interview at Night Summit: interviewed by Indi Gupte.