Working prototype — click the whole loop. Blue seams need your signature (a phone number, sending the letter). Type a bit of news on the Editor's Desk and watch it climb the ladder.
Union · Mason County · Hood Canal
The Beacon
News of Union & the head of Hood Canal
Vol. 1 · No. 1September 2026Fresh online · printed the first
Got news for the paper?
Just call and tell us. That's the whole thing.
(360) 555-0142
A friendly voice picks up, you say what's happening, and we write it up for you. No computer, no forms. Mail your photo in like always.
Take down a bit of news
Type it messy, the way a neighbor would say it on the phone. The Beacon writes it up clean — then you get the last word.
In the finished paper this is where the AI writes it up from a phone call and reads it back to the caller. Here it's the same steps, shown so you can watch the ladder work.
On the page now
This week's letter
Every approved item, grouped and composed into the email your neighbors read over coffee. The killer feature — this generation lives in their inbox.
subscribers stubbed
Sending is the second seam — it goes out through Resend (already wired in your stack) the moment you say go. Held until you do.
The loop — how the Beacon gets smarter
Every time you approve an item, the paper learns a little: who calls things in, what circles they run in, which events come around again. Next issue writes itself faster. This is the top of the ladder — a paper that improves itself.
Union's circles — the paper's map of who's into what