Editorial Policy

Editorial Standards

Notifire publishes short, verified tech briefings for engineering teams. This page documents how each briefing is sourced, written, reviewed, and corrected — and how we use AI in the workflow.

Sourcing

Every Notifire briefing is built from at least one primary source: an official vendor announcement, a security advisory, a release note, a regulatory filing, an academic paper, or first-party reporting by a trusted publication. The primary source is always cited in-line at the bottom of the article and linked under "Key facts." We do not publish briefings sourced exclusively from social media, anonymous forums, or other Notifire-style summary sites.

Verification

Before a briefing is published, our pipeline verifies that the primary source is reachable, that the claims in the briefing match the source, and that the source has a documented trust score. CVE and security advisories must reference an official tracker (NVD, MITRE, vendor PSIRT). Briefings that fail verification are routed to human review and never auto-published.

AI assistance

Notifire uses large language models to summarise primary sources into our standard briefing format. Every briefing is generated by AI from primary-source material and gated by an automated quality check before publication. See our full AI disclosure for the specific models, prompts, and review checks involved.

Quality gates

• Title is 4–7 words and free of clickbait patterns.
• Short summary is 35–55 words; excerpt is 15–30 words.
• Body is 180–300 words across 2–3 paragraphs.
• SEO title is 30–65 characters; meta description is 70–160.
• Featured image and image alt text are present.
• Primary source URL is reachable and tagged with a trust score.
• Action checklist items, when present, are at least 3 words each.

Briefings that fail any hard gate are routed to human review and held out of publication until a Notifire editor accepts or rejects them.

Editorial independence

Notifire does not accept payment for editorial coverage. Sponsorships, if and when introduced, will be visibly labelled. No source, vendor, or advertiser has any influence over which briefings are selected, published, or held back.

Updates and freshness

When a story develops materially after publication, we update the briefing in place and bump its dateModified. Minor copy fixes are silent; substantive factual changes are appended as an editor's note at the bottom of the article. Briefings that become obsolete are unpublished, not deleted.

Corrections

We correct material errors quickly and visibly. To report an error, see our corrections policy for how to reach us and how we log fixes.

Contact the desk

Story tips, source corrections, and editorial questions: [email protected].