Investigative journalism is structurally scarce — less than 2% of newspaper journalism can be characterized as investigative — while the need to expose corruption, abuse, and injustice has never been greater. The technology to fight back now exists. Buried Signals is built to close that gap.
I use AI to investigate, collaborate, and distribute. Monitoring agents scan thousands of sources for signals. Research pipelines cross-reference documents, verify claims, and surface patterns no individual could find alone. Visual storytelling turns what they uncover into short-form video investigations that reach large audiences. Everything I build along the way — the tools, the workflows, the methodology — I share with members, so that other journalists can use these same capabilities to hold power accountable in their own reporting.
But capability alone doesn't change the status quo. That's why Buried Signals is built on collaboration — working with investigative journalists and organizations around the world to increase the visibility and impact of stories that matter. By sharing tools, training, and methodology with a growing community of members, I believe we can redistribute the ability to find signal in the noise, cut through echo chambers, and deliver facts to people who need them. Information is power — and that power should not belong to the few.
Investigations are funded by grants and mission-aligned sponsors, with full editorial independence. The business sustains itself through membership and consulting for newsrooms. The two are deliberately separate: editorial work is never influenced by commercial revenue. And as the membership grows, a share of that revenue flows back into investigations — expanding what we can uncover together.
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Guided by leaders at the intersection of AI, journalism, and video.
Co-founder of Verso, an AI consulting lab for newsrooms. JSK/Stanford AI Fellow. Former investigative data journalist at Axios and The Atlantic.
Florent Daudens CEO, Mizal AICEO of Mizal AI. Previously Press Lead at Hugging Face, developing open-source AI for news. 15+ years in journalism at CBC/Radio-Canada and Le Devoir.
Lars Adrian Giske Head of AI, Polaris MediaHead of AI at iTromsø, one of five regional AI labs within Polaris Media. Built Djinn, now used by 38 Norwegian newspapers. Won the Data Scoop Award twice.
Jon Laurence VP, NewpressVP at Newpress. Peabody, Emmy & Murrow Award winner. Former Supervising EP at AJ+.