A private tip desk for newsrooms
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Story intelligence.
Your next story is already in the tip line. Leed finds it, and keeps the source’s name sealed until they choose otherwise.
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Eleven days, one tip
From a procurement clerk hitting send to the brief on a reporter’s desk, every screen below is the same story lead.
Day one · intake
A clerk decides to talk
No form and no login. Leed asks one question at a time, the way a colleague would.
What happens to each oneWhat happened?
Four no-bid contracts went to firms that donated weeks earlier. I have the bid records.
Does any of this carry extra risk for you?
I work in the procurement office.
Day one · minutes later
It comes back as an editor’s brief
What’s claimed, how to verify it, and what it costs the source. Anything risky waits for a human.
Where the briefs go- What’s claimedFour no-bid contracts went to firms that donated weeks earlier.
- How to verifyBid records and campaign filings are both public.
- Risk to sourceThe sender works inside city procurement.
Day six · the pattern
By day six, it isn’t alone
A losing bidder and a records clerk noticed too. Nine tips are not nine anecdotes and the pattern shows before the story does.
Who is allowed to see itDay nine · the board
A reporter opens the cluster
Verified press see every lead and who sent it. Everyone else learns only that a pattern exists. That rule is enforced in the database, not the interface.
Before anyone makes contactSigned out of a press account, every line above reads “protected source”.
Day nine · consent
The clerk decides who gets through
The reporter asks. The request lands on the clerk’s own dashboard: accept or decline. Declining costs nothing and reveals nothing.
What runs overnightA reporter would like to reach you.
“I cover city hall. Can we talk about the bid records?”
They have never seen your name, and will not unless you accept.
Day eleven · Sherlock
It works the board before you sit down
Sherlock ranks what moved overnight and hands you one brief. He never contacts a source and never sees a name.
Add it to a pilotOpen City contracts and campaign donors first. It moved to Hot overnight on a ninth story, and the bid records are public today.
- PrioritySealed settlements at the school district, two new stories.
- WatchlistThe redistricting consultant’s invoices, forming.
A run, start to finish
What Sherlock does while you sleep
Waiting on your desk when you sit down.
The pilot
Three weeks on your subjects
Your tip line points at Leed
Reporters pick their subjects
You keep what it found
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