# Verso

> Verso is an AI studio for media innovators who'd rather shape the future than get shaped by it.

Verso was founded by Patrick Swanson and Kaveh Waddell as JSK fellows at Stanford University. We build AI tools, run training programs, and provide strategy consulting for newsrooms and media organizations.

## Services

- [Tools & Products](https://verso.ink/#services): AI tools for newsrooms, journalists, and creators
- [Training & Workshops](https://verso.ink/#services): Hands-on AI training, hackathons, and coaching
- [Strategy & Leadership](https://verso.ink/#services): Board roles, executive sessions, keynotes, and AI frameworks

## Products

- [Re:verb](https://reverb.email): Podcast summary service that listens to every new episode and sends a quick summary
- [Roganbot](https://roganbot.verso.ink): AI-powered Joe Rogan Experience search and tracking tool
- Police Scanner Agent: Real-time police radio monitoring for local newsrooms

## Writing

- [Fact-checking with AI is starting to work](https://verso.ink/posts/big-if-true/) (2026-09-16): We're releasing Big If True, a free Claude skill that works through a text one claim at a time, verifies each one against sources, and shows its receipts.
- [We're building a tool to help newsrooms listen to emergency scanners](https://verso.ink/posts/psst-scanner-tool/) (2026-08-12): The Public Safety Scanner Tool, or PSST, sends automated alerts of urgent scanner traffic in real time and will be free for newsrooms.
- [We're at the beginning of something better](https://verso.ink/posts/beginning-of-something-better/) (2026-06-15): The case for optimism in media: It's never been a better time to go independent and start a newsroom. From an edited talk at the fjum AI Day in Vienna.
- [Call for Applications: NextGen AI Leaders Programme](https://verso.ink/posts/nextgen-ai-leaders/) (2026-03-11): We're co-leading a new program with Better Leaders Lab and WAN-IFRA to train the next generation of media leaders for the age of AI. Apply by March 15.
- [We let journalists have fun with AI. They started building solutions.](https://verso.ink/posts/academy/) (2025-06-17): Over the past year, we designed a new way to teach AI: blending tech skills with design thinking and improv. After 12 weeks in Vienna, we can report that it works.
- [We built an AI tool for our podcast obsession](https://verso.ink/posts/reverb/) (2025-04-30): re:verb helps us discover which podcast episodes are worth our time. It's fun, useful, and a glimpse into the multimodal future of AI. Try it out at reverb.email!
- [How we turn hundreds of research papers into a podcast every day](https://verso.ink/posts/verso-smart/) (2024-12-04): Our experiment offers a template for building useful editorial tools quickly.
- [Keeping up with Joe Rogan](https://verso.ink/posts/roganbot/) (2024-11-26): We're building an AI tool to better understand the Joe Rogan Experience, the world's biggest podcast, because we urgently need better tools to follow how ideas spread outside mainstream sources.
- [A playground is all you need](https://verso.ink/posts/playground-announcement/) (2024-09-09): Today, we're sharing Verso Playground, a browser extension that serves as an experimental AI toolbox for journalists and communications professionals.

## Links

- [Blog](https://verso.ink/blog)
- [Full text of every post](https://verso.ink/llms-full.txt)
- [RSS Feed](https://verso.ink/rss.xml)
- [Contact](mailto:team@verso.ink)