Trust.
Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)
TIMIO's legal structure is a PBC. Unlike most American companies, this gives us a legal obligation balance profit with a stated public mission.
TIMIO News PBC's stated mission is as follows:
"To build trustworthy AI that allows people to easily get a fair, balanced, and accurate understanding of news."
Leadership is obligated against maximizing engagement, outrage, or ad revenue at the expense of accuracy for shareholders.
Not charity, nor academia.
TIMIO is also not a charity or research group, and that's intentional.
As a Public Benefit Company, TIMIO must earn its survival by building products consumers actually use.
This creates a different kind of accountability:
If our reporting isn’t useful, people leave
If our tools don’t save time or add clarity, we fail
If we lose trust, the business doesn’t work
Our only path forward is to build something valuable enough for everyday people to use. This keeps us focused on practical, real-world solutions.
Verified Content
After generation, content is checked programmatically against its source. Any AI-generated content that doesn't match its source material is removed before you see it.
Currently this is done on URLs and quotations. We're working on some exciting ways to add verification to more sections of our news reports.
Steelman Philosophy
The core philosophy behind TIMIO is Steelmaning, showing different viewpoints at their strongest.
We aim to show opposing viewpoints in our reports, leading with their best arguments. Our goal is to show where people disagree and why. Which view is correct is left to our readers.
Steelmanning doesn’t mean bothsideism. Weak arguments fail when presented clearly. Strong ones stand on their own.
Future versions of TIMIO will weigh arguments with popularity, primary sources, source credibility, and source conflicts of interest.
There is no such thing as true neutral. But we believe showing what disagreeing parties believe, and why—in good faith— is as close as you can get.
