[Initiative] Velora

Velora is a coordination layer for AI-assisted newsrooms: a software platform that plugs into publishers’ existing stacks to orchestrate multiple AI agents—research, drafting, transcription, image selection, quote/source verification, originality scoring, and story ideation—so a tiny editorial team can operate at the speed of a much larger one while keeping humans in charge of judgment calls. It automates commodity tasks, traces every claim back to original sources to catch hallucinations already cascading through journalism, and uses metrics like an “originality score” to nudge editors away from low-value rewrites toward distinctive reporting, all sold as a licensed workflow (about £300/site/month) with Velora Cycling itself serving mainly as the live demo of what the stack can do.