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The Lead Story · 2026

Cover more local stories.
Same staff.

Quadd.ai turns the documents that already cross your desk — court filings, honor rolls, fair results, board minutes, obituaries — into publish-ready copy in your paper's exact format. It also transcribes the council meeting on the walk back to the office, and reads your draft like a fresh editor before deadline. No templates to maintain. No reporters retyping numbers. No new system to roll out at the next staff meeting.

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  • Built by newspaper people
  • From $49/mo · most weeklies $99
  • No data used for training
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
A freshly-printed broadsheet copy of the Cottonwood County Citizen lying flat on a warm walnut desk, with the lead story 'School Levy Passes; Building Plans Begin' visible above a District Court Filings section. A coffee mug, fountain pen, and reading glasses surround the paper, and a small orange Post-it labeled 'Tuesday's Run' is stuck to the upper-right corner.
From the press · Cottonwood County Citizen

Same staff at the desk. More pages out the door.

Fig. 01 · Tuesday, in print.
By the Numbers
Q1 — 2026
Court records, time per filing
90min→3min

A typical court records export, parsed and formatted for the page faster than a coffee break — whichever system your county uses.

Council interview — captured to typed
60min→4min

Add two more minutes for a 300-word working draft. Record, transcribe, draft — the whole pipeline, done before you're back at your desk.

AP-style proofreading
1fresh editor

Reads the AP Stylebook for breakfast — and yours like it's their own paper. Headline ideas alongside. Accept or reject; nothing changes without you.

The departments

Three tools · One subscription
A scanned court document beside a freshly-printed newspaper page on a walnut desk, connected by an orange Post-it tab at the gutter.
Fig. 01 · Document in, article out.

Document Intelligence

Drop in any PDF, Word file, or scanned image. Quadd reads the structure — whether it's a court filing, a school honor roll, or last night's board minutes — and rebuilds it in the format your paper actually uses. Works on whichever court records system your county runs.

  • Court records · any county system
  • Honor rolls · fair results
  • Obits · legal notices
  • Board & council minutes
A Tascam digital recorder resting on an open spiral notebook of handwritten council-meeting notes, with a printed dialogue transcript and an orange highlight mark to the right.
Fig. 02 · Audio in, article out.

Audio & Interviews

Record at the city council meeting; walk back to the office with a clean transcript already in hand. Then ask Quadd to summarize the back-and-forth, compose a first-draft story, or paste your own prompt and get back formatted output in your publication's exact style.

  • Speaker-aware transcription
  • AI story drafts and summaries
  • Custom prompts in your house style
  • Searchable archive
A printed draft article covered in red-pen editorial marks and two alternative headlines, beside an open AP Stylebook with its iconic yellow-orange cover, a red editing pen, and an index card listing three handwritten headline ideas.
Fig. 03 · Draft in, polish out.

AP-Style Proofreading

An editor that knows the AP Stylebook and reads your draft like a fresh set of eyes. Suggestions are accept-or-reject — nothing changes without you. Headline ideas alongside, in case the deadline ate the good one.

  • AP Style enforcement
  • Accept · reject · ignore
  • Headline suggestions
  • House-style learning
I have saved over three hours/week just on the court records tool alone.

Jeremy Behnke

Cottonwood County Citizen · Circulation 2,000

The efficiency gains allow us to use our limited time doing things that matter to our readers. I honestly believe we have a better news product and more time to focus on producing trusted local news.

John Draper

Pipestone Publishing

I spent twenty-eight years putting community newspapers to bed. The afternoon I spent retyping the police report is the afternoon I never got back.
Trevor Slette · Co-founder · Windom, Minn.
From the Founders

We built Quadd for the paper we'd run.

Trevor spent twenty-eight years putting community newspapers to bed — first as a reporter, then as a publisher, always with the same arithmetic. The list of stories that mattered was always longer than the hours we had to write them.

Nate is a radiologist who got curious about whether the same models that read scans could read court filings. They can. The answer was hiding in plain sight: the documents that fill a community paper's pages are exactly the kind of structured information AI is good at understanding.

So we built Quadd. Not to replace anyone — we both still believe a small-town reporter is the most important reader your community has. But to give that reporter back the afternoon she usually loses to retyping the police report.

Trevor Slette · Nate Groebner · Co-founders · Windom, Minn.
An invitation

Try it for a week. Bring your own work.

Pick a plan and start your 7-day free trial — $0 today, cancel anytime before day 8. Seven days to put it through whatever your Tuesday print run throws at you.

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