Your rolodex, finally usable on deadline.
Give TelePost a story you are already writing — a link, a forwarded email, something you heard in a meeting. It works out which voices the piece needs, finds who in your own contacts fits each one, and says plainly which voices you have nobody for. Then it calls them, and hands you the quotes.
Nothing here gets published
This is not a blogging tool wearing a press badge. You are writing somewhere else, on someone else's deadline, and what you want is comment you do not have time to chase. What comes out is quotes, transcripts and audio attached to the piece — not a post on a site nobody asked for.
What it actually does
- You bring an idea. A published story, a press release, a scrap of a note. A sentence is enough.
- It interviews you. Your phone rings and TelePost asks what the story is, what your angle is and what you still need. It writes the piece up from what you said — in your own voice, if you have cloned one.
- It works out who the story needs. Not names — roles. The right-of-way agent who can turn a route into a count of households. The school transport director who can say whether children who walked now need busing. The voices a reporter on deadline would not have stopped to think of.
- It searches your own contacts. Only yours. TelePost does not sell you a media database or introduce you to strangers — your relationships are the asset, and this makes them searchable by relevance to the story instead of by name.
- It tells you what you are missing. A role nobody in your book fills comes back as a gap, with the reason it mattered. That is the list worth taking to the next council meeting — and over time it is a map of where your network is thin.
- It calls them. Five minutes, ten at the outside, longer if they have more to say. You get every quote, the full transcript and the audio, with the best line marked.
How a source is treated
This is the part worth reading closely, because it is the part that decides whether your sources will take the next call.
- You record why you may call somebody, in your own words, before TelePost rings them. Not a checkbox — a note attached to the contact and to you.
- The call says what it is in the first breath: that it is an AI, calling for you, for your publication, that it is recorded, and that they can talk now, take a call back, or never be contacted again.
- "Never again" is permanent and platform-wide. Not a preference on your desk that the next reporter can import past.
- They can skip the machine. A source who would rather talk to a person can be put straight through to you instead.
- It asks how their name is spelled and checks it. A misspelled name in print is the one mistake a source never forgets.
What you get back
A desk of the stories you are working on. Open one and you see who answered, the line worth leading with from each of them, and behind that every quote, the whole transcript and the recording. Copy what you want into your piece — or have TelePost fold the quotes into the draft it already wrote from your own interview.
There is an API too, so it can feed whatever your newsroom already runs. It reads everything and starts stories; it deliberately cannot ring anybody, because placing a call is a decision a person makes.
Your contacts are yours
Bring them in from a CSV, your phone's vCard export, a LinkedIn connections archive, or a folder of Obsidian notes. Take them out again whenever you like, in full, without asking. This is your rolodex, not our asset, and a platform that holds a reporter's contacts hostage deserves the suspicion it gets.