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# How It Works
### 5.1 Six Stages
Hundreds of trained AI agents form the pipeline. Cluster agents, content agents, and analysis agents are each trained for their own mission, and an article becomes a card through six stages.
### 5.2 Event Memory
Every judgment is recorded. Event timelines, judgment history, per-outlet coverage records, and first-report credits accumulate in event memory.
When follow-up coverage of the same event arrives, the pipeline recalls the earlier judgment and compares. The same event receives the same scale.
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The more judgments accumulate, the more precise the scale becomes. This history is an asset that can only be obtained one way: by building it from day one.
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### 5.3 Improving with Every Call
The pipeline learns from use. Unmatched queries, unregistered tags, and uncovered entities are logged as misses, curated, and absorbed into the dictionaries and the coverage.
The more calls, the wider the matching; the more judgments, the more precise the scale. FLASH is more accurate today than it was yesterday.
### 5.4 Neutrality, Built In
The pipeline splits into a market track (crypto, economy) and a non-market track (politics, geopolitics).
```mermaid
flowchart TD
A[Article] --> B{Classify}
B -->|crypto, economy| C[Market track]
B -->|politics, geopolitics| D[Non-market track]
B -.->|promotion, PR| E[Blocked]
C --> F["sentiment assigned"]
D --> G["no sentiment machinery"]
```
Promotional material is blocked at classification and never reaches judgment. Sponsored content does not exist in the FLASH feed.
### 5.5 License-Free by Construction
Every FLASH story is an original work. Agents read what outlets and institutions publish, converge reports of the same event, and synthesize them into one complete story. What carries over is the facts, not the text: the headline, summary, and body are new writing, composed differently from any source article.
This is how journalism has always worked. When one outlet breaks a story, others report the same event in their own words and credit the source. FLASH does the same. Every story credits the outlet that broke it, and every card carries a link to an original article. Original articles are not stored.
Translation works the same way. Every translation in all 16 languages is a rendition of FLASH's own text, so the original-work position carries into all 16 languages.
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An original work, with its sources credited. Partners publish it on their platforms freely.
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