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Building AI systems for demanding intellectual work.
Verbatim gives you a team of AI agents, from the first lead to the final draft. You describe your subject in plain words. The agents search, read, follow your sources and write in your style, for hours or for weeks. Every fact stays tied to its source, and you make every call.
- Research
- Reading
- Monitoring
- People
- Live checking
- Your style
- Every format
- Hosted in Europe
14 days free. No technical skills needed.
Agents
What was the operator’s net debt in 2024?
Verbatim
2.9 times EBITDA at the end of 2024, against 2.1 a year earlier.
Annual report 2024p. 88
Net debt / EBITDA: 2.9x (2023: 2.1x)
Read these three archive collections and build the timeline of the mill.
Reading agent
- Reading 3 collections, 4,212 pagesDone
- Dating each eventDone
- Building the timelineDone
Timeline, 1958 to 1971: 146 dated events, each with its archive reference.
An investigation: safety failures at the plant, and who knew.
Verbatim
I have opened a project for this investigation. The agents start now.
Safety at the plantJournalism
- Monitoring agentFollows 648 sources
- Reading agentReads your 40,000 pages
- Research agentSearches the web and public registers
- People agentFinds who worked at the plant
- Prep agentPrepares your interviews
- Checking agentChecks every claim against its excerpt
- Writing agentWrites the first draft, in your style
Ask Verbatim, or give it a taskAsk
Jules Spector, a journalist (French press card no. 145851), founded Verbatim with Jean-Claude Lescure.
Engineers already hand whole projects to AI agents.
Their agents plan the work, write the code, test it and fix their own mistakes, for hours. Everyone who researches, analyses and writes still types questions into a chat box. Verbatim brings agents to that work.
When an agent makes a mistake in code, a test catches it. When it makes a mistake in research, the mistake gets published. Verbatim’s agents work from your sources, bring back the proof for every result, and leave every decision to you.
From the first lead to the final draft.
Each agent has its role. They work in parallel, for hours or for weeks, and check each other’s work.
Search
They search the web, search engines and public registers for as long as it takes. They read every page they find from start to finish, and keep the excerpts that matter.
Read
Give it forty thousand pages. It reads every one and remembers every line: reports, scans, spreadsheets, emails and recordings, in most languages. Ask it anything, and it answers with the exact page.
Monitor
Its agents watch hundreds of sources, day and night: the press, public registers, official decisions and the sources you add. You hear about anything that changes your project, with the excerpt that proves it. Four articles on the same event make one line.
People
It finds the people who know and maps who worked with whom. It works out how to reach them and drafts the message. Nothing is sent before you review it.
Prepare
Before you meet someone, it prepares everything: what they have said before, what the documents show, and the questions they will try to avoid.
Analyse
Tables, charts and calculations stay tied to their sources. Every figure the agents compute points back to its cells. The result follows your house template.
Two proprietary technologies.
Every fact, tied to its source.
Chatbots predict the most likely next word. When a fact is missing, they make one up. Verbatim runs on a proprietary algorithm that ties every fact to the exact excerpt it comes from. It checks every sentence against those sources, continuously, and rejects any claim it cannot trace.
Your style, learned from your work.
Its proprietary style engine was developed with linguists. It measures dozens of features in everything you have published, from the length of your sentences to the way you quote people. Send it a wire story or a rough draft, and it rewrites it the way you would. Every correction you make refines your style profile.
While they talk, Verbatim checks.
In interviews, press conferences and meetings, it transcribes every word and checks every sentence as it is spoken. It checks against your documents, your sources, the web and everything that person has said before. When an answer contradicts your documents, the proof is on your screen while they are still talking. Your next question is ready.
Every screen shows what your work needs.
Each project keeps its sources, excerpts, people, monitoring, drafts and history for as long as the work lasts. The places never move, so you always know where things are. Inside a project, the agents lay out what the work needs: the template of the draft, the sources next to each paragraph, the actions offered on a selection, a page built for the question of the moment. What you pin stays where you put it. The agents panel sits on every screen, and it knows where you are.
The agents work in parallel, for hours or for days, and check each other’s work. You see what each one is doing, at every step. You can stop or undo anything. Nothing goes out without you.
Built first for journalists. Made for anyone whose work has to be right.
We started with journalism, because it demands the truth, fast. Each project type sets the agents, the drafts and the actions for its profession. You can change it at any time.
The same sources, in every format.
On the web, on iPhone and inside your assistant.
On iPhone Coming soon
Follow your agents, approve what goes out, listen in on an interview and read your briefing.
In Claude and ChatGPT Coming soon
Your projects and your monitoring, inside the assistant you already use.
The right model for each task
Verbatim tests models from several labs on every task and uses the one that does it best.
Every day, at the time you choose, a short briefing on all your projects, in Verbatim and by email.
Why not ChatGPT?
General-purpose assistants answer one question at a time. Verbatim’s agents take on the whole project and follow the rules of your profession.
| A general-purpose assistant | verbatimVerbatim | |
|---|---|---|
| The work | Answers one question, then waits for the next. | Works on your whole project, for hours or for weeks. |
| Facts | Can invent a fact and present it as true. | Ties every fact to its source and rejects what it cannot trace. |
| Monitoring | Answers when you ask. | Follows your sources day and night and alerts you. |
| Style | Writes in a generic style. | Writes in your style, learned from your work. |
| Your profession | Ignores its rules: sources, ethics, law. | Follows them, and uses your house templates. |
| Audit trail | Does not record which lines the AI wrote. | Records the origin of every line: you, the AI or a source. |
Your data stays in Europe.
- Your content is hosted and processed in Europe.
- It is never used to train third-party AI.
- A specialist cybersecurity firm oversees our security.
- Your style profile belongs to your account.
- If you leave, your data leaves with you.
Verbatim records the origin of every line: you, the AI or a source. The record is ready when the AI Act requires it.
For you, or for your whole team.
VerbatimAgent equips one person. VerbatimOS equips a newsroom or a team. Both run on the same agents.
VerbatimAgent
For one person, staff or freelance.
The complete set of agents. You can use it the same day, with nothing to install.
- Monitoring, day and night
- Research and reading
- Interviews, quotes and live checking
- Writing in your style
- Finding people and contacts
From€49.95a month, VAT included. 14-day free trial.
VerbatimOS
For a newsroom or a team, from the desk to publication.
Everything in VerbatimAgent, plus the desk. Take the full OS or only the modules you need. We handle the integrations on site.
- The built-in CMS
- Story assignment
- Work-in-progress tracking
- The approval queue
- The AI Act report for the whole team
From€109 to €249a month, depending on modules and usage.
The team
A journalist runs Verbatim. Four partners bring journalism teaching, finance, business management and human resources. A team of developers builds the product with them.
Jules Spector
President
Journalist (French press card no. 145851) and developer. Founder of Verbatim.
Jean-Claude Lescure
Partner
Historian. Founded the Gennevilliers School of Journalism and led the Sciences Po School of Journalism.
Stéphane Monmousseau
Partner
Adviser in entrepreneurship and finance.
Hubert Clerbois
Partner
Adviser in business management.
Joël Postic
Partner
Adviser in entrepreneurship and human resources.
Verbatim is based at Station F, in Paris.
Judge Verbatim by the standards of a newsroom.
Write to Jules Spector: jules@verbatim.media
Your questions
What happens to my texts, my style and my sources?
They remain yours. Your content is never used to train third-party models. Your style profile belongs to your account and only serves your agents. If you leave, you take your data with you.
How is it different from ChatGPT or Claude?
A chat assistant answers one question at a time, then waits. In Verbatim, agents work on your project for hours or weeks: they follow your sources, keep your material and tie every fact to its source. Soon, you will also open your Verbatim projects inside ChatGPT or Claude.
Which professions is it for?
Verbatim starts with four project types: journalism, long-form writing, analysis and research. Each one sets the agents, the drafts and the actions for its profession. Other professions use the closest type.
Which languages does it work in?
It reads, transcribes and translates documents and recordings in most languages. It writes in the language you choose.
Will AI replace journalists?
No. Verbatim works with journalists. Its agents search, read, transcribe and check, and the journalist directs them, decides and signs. Nothing goes out without their approval.
Do we need to change our CMS or train the whole newsroom?
No. Take the full VerbatimOS or only the modules you need. Verbatim publishes to your current CMS, WordPress or any tool connected by webhook. We handle the integrations on site. Your teams adopt the modules at their own pace.
How long does it take to get started?
VerbatimAgent works the day you subscribe, with nothing to install. For VerbatimOS, we come to your newsroom. We connect your tools and calibrate the house style on your archives. We set the timeline with you before we start.
What about errors, hallucinations and ethics?
Every claim keeps its source. The agents check that each source says what the draft attributes to it, and flag contradictions inside the draft and between sources. When two sources disagree, Verbatim shows you the disagreement and lets you decide. An analysis, an opinion or a figure of speech never receives a fact status.
Are AI costs under control?
Yes. The subscription price is fixed every month. We do not bill for usage: consumption peaks are on us. You know the amount in advance, whatever your volume.
Where is our data hosted?
In Europe. Your content is hosted and processed there. A specialist cybersecurity firm oversees our security. Your archives, sources and contacts remain yours.
See Verbatim on your own work.
Try it free for 14 days, or ask us for a demo built on one of your subjects.
14 days free. No technical skills needed.