About · Masthead
Role at Basis Desk
Basis Desk is an AI-native newsroom: stories are drafted by software from primary sources and published automatically once they pass machine verification. Julian Mercer is the human accountable for how that system works.
- Sets Basis Desk's editorial rules and maintains the list of primary sources the newsroom is allowed to use.
- Monitors the publishing pipeline and its verification scores every day.
- Reviews every story the system holds back (defamation risk, low verification score) before it can run — or kills it.
- Spot-checks and fact-checks published stories against their cited sources.
- Handles corrections and reader reports sent to corrections@basisdesk.news.
Bylines stay honest: articles read "Basis Desk Newsroom · AI-generated, source-verified". Julian Mercer does not write them and does not review each one before publication — see how we use AI and the corrections policy.
Research and publications
- Client-Triggered Claim Verification and Smart-Contract Risk Heuristics: Architecture of the Basis Desk Verify Benchmark
ScholarlyArticle · Basis Desk Research Desk · 2026 · BD-TR-2026-03 · PDF
- Cross-Venue Entity Resolution, Regulatory Filing Ingestion, and On-Chain Whale Flow Attribution at the Edge
ScholarlyArticle · Basis Desk Research Desk · 2026 · BD-TR-2026-02 · PDF
- Primary-Source Grounding and Automated Claim Verification in Real-Time Cryptocurrency Newsrooms
ScholarlyArticle · Basis Desk Research Desk · 2026 · BD-TR-2026-01 · PDF
- The Retail Yield Gap Report: 2026 — A Comparative Analysis of Total Return vs. Cash-Flow Maximization Strategies
Report · Zenodo · 2026 · 10.5281/zenodo.18680214
Full research portal & CC BY 4.0 datasets at basisdesk.news/research · ORCID.
Areas
Quantitative financePortfolio analyticsIncome ETFs and yieldCrypto marketsData verificationEditorial standards