Publication policy

AI Content Policy

How Local Service Ledger uses AI assistance while keeping source evidence, local reporting, review status, and corrections transparent.

AI assists the workflow; it is not evidence

AI may help organize research, build an outline, prepare a draft, edit language, format structured content, and check consistency. Those uses do not turn an AI response into a factual source. Claims generated or suggested by a tool require support from an external, attributable source.

What automation cannot supply

Quotes must come from recorded or written source material. Local experiences, site visits, inspections, photographs, projects, prices, professional opinions, and calculations must be real and documented. Automation may not invent missing facts to complete an article.

No city-name substitution

We do not automate pages by replacing one city name with another. A market article needs its own reader problem, source set, original-value record, and editorial decision. If enough useful local evidence is unavailable, the article may be withheld.

Visible article disclosures

A draft or automated preview says: “AI-assisted draft. This article has not completed editorial review and is not approved for publication.” The reviewed disclosure appears only after an explicit human approval record says the article passed the required workflow. If an article's record says AI was not used, its disclosure uses corresponding editorial wording and does not claim AI assistance.

Checking and corrections

Before publication, the record is checked against cited sources, local boundaries, business relationships, similarity risks, and article-type requirements. AI-assisted content is subject to the same correction policy as other work. Errors are corrected transparently, regardless of how they entered the draft.