Harvy
Our flagship product: a source-grounded intelligence platform for research, monitoring, and verification.
How Harvy worksEvidence for a
clearer picture.
tir labs builds source-grounded research and monitoring tools—and supports the independent journalism that puts them to work.
Meet Harvy, our flagshipFlagship product / 01Harvy V2 / in development
Harvy
Source-grounded intelligence for research, monitoring, and verification.
Harvy is a web SaaS for source-grounded intelligence and operations. Its V2 architecture is designed to give Tower, Ops, Civic, and Newsk a shared ontology, identity, query language, permissions, and interface. Ingestion and live deployment are still in development.
Read the full Harvy debut01Newsk
02Tower
03Civic
04Ops
Our story / computational immunity
Journalism is
a public good.
Not a monopoly.
Democracy is up against a velocity gap: evidence is scattered across public records and data, while independent newsrooms rarely have the data-science teams or affordable tools to keep pace.
Our name nods to the Toll/interleukin-1 receptor, a biological recognition system that helps living things detect unseen threats. We carry that idea into civic life: computational immunity for the people investigating public harm.
That means intelligence infrastructure owned by the public interest—not another corporate chokepoint or surveillance layer.
01 / Intelligence
Find the signal.
Discover consequential evidence across fragmented public data.
02 / Evidence
Protect the record.
Build verifiable, tamper-evident paths from source to story.
03 / Production
Move at the speed of events.
Turn research and context into stronger reporting, sooner.
04 / Equity
Keep it within reach.
Open tools, without enterprise price tags or vendor lock-in.
One lab / two halvesBuild the tools.
Build the tools.
Use them for good.
Postdated
An independent newsroom putting journalism in practice: reporting on power, policy, and the systems shaping people’s lives.
Read PostdatedA growing body of workTools for the
Tools for the
public’s right to know.
From newsroom infrastructure to watchdogs and writing tools, each project puts practical power in the hands of independent journalists and the communities they serve.
01 / 07
Independent newsroom
Postdated
News from the people who live with the consequences. Postdated follows power, money, and policy from the ground up—centering working-class voices and tracing how systems make exploitation possible.
Open the Postdated page02 / 07
Machine-learning news intelligence
Acto
A newsroom radar that finds consequential material in the noise and puts the strongest leads in front of journalists—designed to help reporters break news up to 80% faster.
Open the Acto page03 / 07
Open-source newsroom infrastructure
NewsRoots
A modernization of WordPress Newspack on the Roots stack. NewsRoots brings the newsroom application, Bedrock, Sage-based theme, subscriptions, and QA work into one open-source home.
Open the NewsRoots page04 / 07
Ghost newsroom toolkit · in progress
Ghostpack
A self-hosted Ghost newsroom companion: an open-source counterpart to the tools publishers expect from Newspack, built around the Ghost ecosystem.
Open the Ghostpack page05 / 07
Automated congressional watchdog
CongressWatch
Automation in service of public accountability: keeping watch on Congress and helping surface the actions that deserve closer scrutiny.
Open the CongressWatch page06 / 07
Open source
Particles
An open-source project from the tir labs workshop. Made to be explored, improved, and put to work in the open.
Open the Particles page07 / 07
Open-source writing tools
Qrammerly
A multi-model proofreader that puts the writer in charge. Twelve language models check text in parallel; suggestions are ranked by consensus and reviewed one correction at a time.
Open the Qrammerly page