Verso
Verso is an AI studio building practical tools for newsrooms and media professionals, including Big If True, a free fact-checking plugin for Claude that verifies claims one at a time with sources. The company also offers podcast summarization tools, a police scanner agent, audience modeling, and AI training workshops.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Creator / Creative Economy
- Software Only
- Data & Analytics
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Newsrooms and media professionals face constant pressure to produce accurate work faster, yet lack AI tools tailored to their specific workflows. Fact-checking is time-consuming and error-prone, while monitoring sources like podcasts, police scanners, and audience responses requires significant manual effort, leaving journalists with less time for original reporting.
Solution
Verso builds AI tools designed specifically for media innovators, shipping fast and turning the latest research into working products. Its portfolio includes Re:verb, which summarizes podcast episodes; Roganbot, which extracts key moments from Joe Rogan episodes; a police scanner agent that monitors radio and flags newsworthy events; and audience modeling that tests messages against virtual focus groups based on real interview data. Big If True is a free, open-source fact-checking plugin for Claude that checks drafts one claim at a time, underlines findings, and provides verdicts like "Supported," "Couldn't verify," or "Needs review" with sources. Verso also offers workshops, hackathons, and strategy consulting to help teams adopt AI effectively.
Target Audience
Primary customers are newsrooms, journalists, editors, and media creators seeking practical AI tools for fact-checking, content monitoring, and audience insight, as well as media leadership teams needing strategy and training support.
Features
- Big If True plugin for Claude with claim-by-claim fact-checking, three verdict types (Supported, Couldn't verify, Needs review), and source links for each checked claim; installs as a plugin with automatic updates and works in Claude Cowork and Claude Code
- Plugin architecture verified to reduce incorrect flags and catch real errors compared to baseline Claude, tested against published articles with known errors and planted mistakes
- Roganbot automatically pulls key moments and quotes from every Joe Rogan episode, and Re:verb summarizes new episodes of favorite shows via email
- Police scanner agent monitors radio around the clock, flags newsworthy events in real time, and transcribes calls, currently piloting with Open Vallejo
- Audience modeling creates virtual focus groups from real interview data to test headlines, messages, or product ideas in minutes
- Training offerings include a half-day AI kickstart workshop and one-day hackathons where teams build working AI prototypes using tools like Claude Code