Tip intake & triage for newsrooms
Every newsroom gets flooded with tips. TipLine AI does the first read.
Tips arrive from a web form, an inbox, a text line — wildly uneven in quality. TipLine AI triages every one into urgent, credible, duplicate, spam, or safety-concern, and clusters related tips so your editors see the pattern, not the pile.
The problem
Your inbox doesn't know which tips matter
Without triage
Every tip looks the same size
A newsroom tip line collects everything at once: real leads, five people describing the same pothole, a source with documents, and a wave of spam. Editors read top to bottom, in order of arrival — not urgency — and the strongest tip can sit under twenty weaker ones.
With TipLine AI
The pile becomes a ranked queue
TipLine AI reads every tip the moment it arrives, assigns a triage category, and groups related reports into a single cluster. Instead of twelve disconnected messages about the same scandal, your editor sees one cluster, its size, and every source behind it — ready to assign.
How it works
From inbox chaos to editor-ready queue, automatically
Four steps run on every tip, in real time, regardless of where it came from.
Tip comes in
Web form, email, SMS, or a call transcript pasted in by staff — every channel lands in the same intake pipeline.
AI assigns a category
Urgent, credible, duplicate, spam, or safety-concern — assigned in seconds using the tip's content, source pattern, and history.
AI clusters related tips
Reports describing the same event, location, or pattern are grouped into one thread with every contributing tip linked.
Editor dashboard surfaces it
Your desk opens a ranked queue — urgent and credible clusters at the top, spam filtered out, nothing duplicated.
See it in action
A Tuesday morning tip queue, triaged
A fictional example of what lands on an editor's screen after TipLine AI processes an overnight batch.
Investigations desk — overnight queue
4 new tips · 1 cluster surfaced02:14
"I process permits at City Hall. Three of the last five zoning variances on Baker St went to the same shell LLC. I have the filing numbers."
via secure web form · named, verifiable source
03:47
"The county's road repair map hasn't matched what I see driving Route 9 in months. Attaching dashcam stills from this week."
via email · 2 photo attachments
04:02
"Same pothole on Route 9 near the overpass, still not fixed, been there since spring."
via SMS tip line
05:30
"Claim your reward now — local newsroom giveaway, click to verify your entry."
via web form · bulk-sender pattern flagged
TL-2093, TL-2094, and three earlier reports (TL-2071, TL-2077, TL-2082) all describe the unrepaired Route 9 pothole. TipLine AI merged them into one thread — the Metro Desk sees one credible cluster with five corroborating reports instead of five separate tickets.
Source protection
Built to protect the people who trust you with a tip
TipLine AI triages and clusters tips without ever exposing sources — to advertisers, to third parties, or to anyone outside your newsroom.
Encrypted intake, end to end
Every tip is encrypted in transit and at rest the moment it arrives, regardless of channel — web form, email, or SMS. Nothing sits in plaintext waiting to be read.
Source identity stays with your desk
Triage and clustering run on tip content and metadata your editors control — source details are never surfaced outside your newsroom's own permissions.
No data resold or shared
Tip content, sources, and clustering data are never sold, shared, or used to train models outside your own instance.
Every triage decision and cluster merge is logged with a timestamp and reason, so editors can always see why a tip landed where it did.
Who it's for
Built for newsrooms of every size
Local outlets with no dedicated intake staff
A two-person team can't read every tip in real time. TipLine AI does the first pass so the one editor on duty opens a queue that's already sorted.
Outlets built around deep accountability reporting
Clustering surfaces the pattern across many small tips — the same landlord, the same agency, the same contractor — that a single report would never reveal alone.
Newsrooms managing high-volume tip lines
Route clusters to the right desk automatically, keep spam and duplicates out of editors' inboxes, and give every desk its own triaged queue.
Early access
Get your newsroom on the list
TipLine AI is opening early access to a limited group of newsrooms. Tell us about your tip volume and we'll reach out to set up your instance.
- Free pilot for early-access newsrooms
- Set up in a day, no engineering required
- Works alongside your existing tip channels
You're on the list.
We'll reach out at the email you provided to schedule a walkthrough. Your reference ID: WL-0000