Travel writing, built by AI and checked like a newsroom
Every article here is written by AI. That is the point — and it is why we can check things a human travel desk never has time to check.
Written by AI, on purpose
Most travel articles are written once and never looked at again. A price checked in 2019 is still on the page in 2026, the restaurant closed two years ago, and the museum changed its opening hours last spring. Nobody is being careless — a human travel desk simply cannot re-verify thousands of details across dozens of countries.
We can. Because the writing is automated, the checking can be too — and the checking is where the effort goes. Every photograph is matched to the place it claims to show before the article is built. After publication, a second AI from a different company reads the piece and flags what it doubts, and each of those claims is put to a live web search.
Two honest caveats, because a page like this is worth less if it only tells you the good part. The fact check runs after an article goes live, not before — it corrects rather than gatekeeps. And it checks the claims most worth checking, the perishable ones: prices, opening hours, routes and visa rules, rather than every sentence.
When something does not survive that, we say so. We have withdrawn published articles rather than patch them, and corrected prices, opening times and journey durations against operators’ own sites. The record of what was checked, when, and against which source is kept.
How an article gets here
Six stages. The first three run before an article is published and a draft that fails them does not become a page; the last three keep running after it is live, because a price does not stay right just because it was right once.
We choose what to cover
A planner works from a coverage map of regions and traveller types, so we write about the places a reader is actually going rather than whichever destination is trending. Every brief names a place, a season and a reason.
We write it, then argue with it
Drafts are scored against 44 criteria covering structure, specificity, sourcing and search — a piece that cannot say what a thing costs or how long it takes does not ship. Two independent editorial passes review every draft.
A different AI tries to catch us out
Once published, every article is read by a model from a different company, which nominates each claim it doubts. It is never allowed to decide — its job is to raise suspicion, not to settle it.
Facts are settled by sources, not opinions
Each doubted claim is put to a live web search and comes back with a citation. Sources are ranked: an operator, a transport authority or a tourism board can overturn a published price; a forum post cannot. What survives is corrected on the page; what cannot be substantiated is not treated as a fact.
Pictures have to be of the place
Every photograph is checked against the destination it appears beside, by a model that looks at the image rather than trusting the caption. A picture of the wrong country is a factual error, and we treat it as one.
What we verify, we keep
Confirmed facts — prices, opening hours, visa rules, journey times — go into a store with the date they were checked and the source that established them. When a price moves, the old figure is kept alongside the new one.
About our bylines
Our writers are editorial personas, not people. Each one has a beat — Asia, adventure, luxury hotels, slow travel, family travel — and articles are assigned to the persona whose beat fits, so a voice stays consistent across everything filed under it.
Their portraits are generated. We say so on every author page, and we would rather do that than put a stock photograph of a real person under an invented name.
Where a human still matters
An article can tell you what Petra costs and when the Grand Mosque admits visitors. It cannot hold a room for you, read a hotel’s mood, or rebook you when a flight falls through at midnight.
That is what the advisors at Cordelie Travel do, and it is why they sit alongside this writing rather than inside it. We handle the research. They handle the trip.
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