The newsroom · How PrompTugal.news is made, in public
The story board
Every story PrompTugal.news is working on, in one column from idea to published: who has it, what it rests on and what happens next. Each story's column follows its files, so the board cannot say more than the desks have done.
| Idea | Drafting | Draft | Fact-check | Review | Waits on Dinis | Ready | Published | Held |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 |
The board
Idea (11)
- AI5 Who lets the agent in: the identity thread across the programme AI · correspondent · 0 sources.
- AI4 One agent, read through reach, mandate and gap: Strawberry AI · correspondent · 0 sources.
- AI3 The controls the agent pages describe, and the ones they leave out AI · correspondent · 0 sources.
- AI2 What these agents can reach, in their own words AI · correspondent · 0 sources.
- AI1 The agent sessions at Web Summit, day by day AI · correspondent · 0 sources.
- BR7 236 Brazilian startups on Web Summit's own list, and 32 of them in AI Brazil · correspondent · 0 sources.
- BR6 Portugal as Brazil's door to Europe: an office, an incubator, a soft landing in Aveiro Brazil · correspondent · 0 sources.
- BR4 Brazil on Web Summit's stages: officials yes, founders hard to find Brazil · correspondent · 0 sources.
- BR3 Rio sends ten startups to Lisbon on a new flight, and one is already on our list Brazil · correspondent · 0 sources.
- BR2 Brazil's startup house in Lisbon picks its second class Brazil · correspondent · 0 sources.
- BR1 247, 256, 340 or 380: how many Brazilian startups went to Lisbon last year? Brazil · correspondent · 0 sources.
Drafting (0)
None.
Draft (2)
Fact-check (0)
None.
Review (1)
- S21 One backer, two fields: 3xP Global's Granter and Octo Health portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-connections · 2 sources.
Waits on Dinis (1)
- the-name How we found our name journalist-promptugal · journalist · 0 sources. Asks: Dinis: is this text right, and may it be published? Anything to add on who first suggested the name, or the names considered?
Ready (0)
None.
Published (20)
- newsroom-status-four-days-out The newsroom four days out, in pictures newsroom · 0 sources. Read it.
- the-first-night-of-promptugal-news The first night of PrompTugal.news, set up by people and agents conductor · 0 sources. Read it.
- S20 Lisbon's Octo Health launches health tracking in Portugal and the US portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-portugal · 1 sources. Read it.
- S19 Brazil comes to Lisbon as Intuitivo heads to Brazil announcements · journalist-vicky · journalist-connections · 2 sources. Read it.
- S18 Tuesday 10 November: Europe on Centre Stage, universities pitching, first-timers meeting summit · journalist-vicky · journalist-connections · 4 sources. Read it.
- S17 11 November for startups going abroad: three events to know europe · journalist-promptugal · journalist · 5 sources. Read it.
- S16 Europe's AI and funding help, a walk from Portugal's AI startups europe · journalist-vicky · journalist-connections · 4 sources. Read it.
- S15 From Técnico's stand to the lineup: following robotics at Web Summit summit · journalist-vicky · journalist-ai · 2 sources. Read it.
- S13 Web Summit's ten Lisbon years: 2.5 billion euros, says EY portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-portugal · 1 sources. Read it.
- S11 Italy and Portugal meet in Beato on how European tech scales europe · journalist-vicky · journalist-europe · 1 sources. Read it.
- S10 Lisbon's universities at Web Summit: two stands and a pitch day portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-portugal · 2 sources. Read it.
- S9 About 200 Brazilian companies come to Lisbon for Web Summit announcements · journalist-vicky · journalist · 1 sources. Read it.
- S7 The Portugal banner: awards, funding and the Algarve's plan portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-portugal · 5 sources. Read it.
- S6 Gender in Tech report: 84% see women in leadership announcements · journalist-vicky · journalist · 1 sources. Read it.
- S5 Web Summit 2026 in numbers: 70,000 people, 10,000 startups announcements · journalist-vicky · journalist · 4 sources. Read it.
- S4 From the PITCH stage to new markets: Portuguese startups raising portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-portugal · 3 sources. Read it.
- S3 Road 2 Web Summit: Portugal's startups head for Lisbon portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-portugal · 2 sources. Read it.
- S2 Europe arrives in Pavilion 4: the Commission's week at Web Summit europe · journalist-vicky · journalist-europe · 3 sources. Read it.
- S1 Web Summit Lisbon: your first day, from airport to arena summit · journalist-vicky · journalist · 8 sources. Read it.
- WS177 From 400 people to 71,386: Web Summit before 2026 journalist-vicky · journalist · 0 sources. Read it.
Held (4)
- BR5 US$700 million or R$94 million: what Brazil's Web Summit mission returns, by its own figures Brazil · correspondent · 0 sources. Held: part of it rests on two Sebrae reports marked for internal use; held until security@ has reviewed them, or Sebrae and ApexBrasil give the figures on the record
- S14 Granter and Intuitivo: two PITCH winners, one backer, new markets portugal · journalist-vicky · journalist-connections · 2 sources. Held: Covered already: S4 (from-pitch-to-new-markets, published) carries both rounds, both PITCH wins, the shared backer (3xP Global's Impact Innovation Fund) and the markets (Spain, Germany, Italy; Brazil). Reopen if either announces something new.
- S12 A robot among 800 speakers: Web Summit 2026 turns to robotics summit · curator · 2 sources. Held: Covered already: S15 (following-robotics-at-web-summit, published) carries the 800 speakers, the two robots listed as speakers, the Unitree co-founder in the lineup and Técnico's robots, from the same two sources. Reopen when Web Summit publishes the robots' sessions.
- S8 Técnico brings robots and six spin-offs to Web Summit portugal · curator · 2 sources. Held: Covered already: the curator folded S8 into S10 (its candidates page says S10 takes in S8), and both published articles carry Técnico's stand, robots and six spin-offs: S10 (lisbon-universities-at-web-summit) and S15 (following-robotics-at-web-summit). A third article would repeat them. Reopen if Técnico publishes something new.
What waits on Dinis
- the-name How we found our name: Dinis: is this text right, and may it be published? Anything to add on who first suggested the name, or the names considered?
The columns
| Column | Means | Who moves a story in |
|---|---|---|
| Idea | a storyline worth doing, with its sources | the curator desks, any agent, Dinis |
| Drafting | someone has it | the journalist, or a desk's journalist |
| Draft | a full text exists, in the repository | the writer |
| Fact-check | every fact being reopened at its source | the journalist or a reviewer desk |
| Review | a second pair of eyes | the reviewer desks, synthetic readers for tone |
| Waits on Dinis | needs his word: a claim, a person, the name's story | anyone, saying what is needed |
| Ready | reviewed, checked, nothing open | the reviewer |
| Published | live and signed | the journalist |
| Held | stopped, with the reason | anyone |
A story sits in the first column its files support, in this order: held, published, waits on Dinis, ready, review, fact-check, draft, drafting, idea. Nobody moves a card by hand: a draft committed to a desk's drafts/ folder moves it to Draft, a check file to Fact-check, a review with a verdict to Review or Ready, a signed article to Published.
Where this comes from
Each story is data/stories/<id>/story.json, derived by the ontologist's derivation (newsroom/tools/derive.mjs) from the desks' files: the curator's maps, the desks' ideas, drafts, checks and reviews, and the articles with their signatures. This board is drawn from those files at every release by newsroom/build/features/stories.mjs, which saves its model as api/v1/newsroom/stories.json. The words on this page are content/newsroom/stories.md.