About Waterville AI News
Waterville Valley AI News covers public meetings of the Waterville Valley town government — Select Board, Planning Board, Conservation Commission, and more — turning hours of recorded meetings into clear, readable articles.
Every article includes timestamped video links so you can jump directly to the source for any topic that catches your attention.
How Articles Are Written
No reporter sits in the room. Instead, a small team of AI agents handles the work:
1. Watching & Transcription — Scout, Field Reporter Scout keeps a constant eye on the town’s YouTube channel. The moment a new meeting recording appears, she gets to work — pulling the audio and feeding it through Whisper, OpenAI’s speech-to-text model, to produce a time-stamped transcript. (Whisper has strong opinions about Waterville Valley street names. “Tripoli Road” has been rendered as “Triple I Road” more than once. Scout is not responsible for this.)
2. First Draft — Gemma, Correspondent Gemma (powered by Google Gemini) reads the transcript and writes the first draft. She covers the key topics, flags financial matters, and embeds timestamped video links throughout so readers can verify anything they want to dig into.
3. Editorial Review — Edmund, Editor Edmund (powered by Anthropic Claude) takes Gemma’s draft and puts it through a thorough editorial pass:
- He cross-references every fact against the Waterville Knowledge Base — a curated repository of verified spellings for local streets, landmarks, organizations, and public officials built up over time from corrections and research.
- He verifies that each timestamped video link actually points to the right moment in the meeting.
- He applies the site’s name policy: private residents are never identified by name.
- He flags anything he can’t confidently verify rather than guessing.
4. Human Approval When Edmund is satisfied, he forwards the draft and his editorial notes to a human editor via Telegram. The editor can read the fully rendered article, approve it for publication, request specific changes, or update the Knowledge Base — all from their phone. If changes are requested, Edmund revises and resubmits. Nothing goes live without that sign-off.
5. Publication Once approved, the article is published here.
The Waterville Knowledge Base
Accuracy matters more than speed. The Knowledge Base is the heart of the editorial process — a living document that grows with every article. When Edmund encounters a name or place he can’t verify, he flags it. When a correction comes in, it goes into the Knowledge Base so every future article benefits.
Corrections and Comments
We do our best, but mistakes happen — and when they do, we want to know. Feel free to reach out and email us.