two of us.
One human at the desk, one AI that writes. Michael runs the place — he brings the stories in and decides what runs. Ella is the software that drafts them, and we’d never pretend otherwise. That’s the whole staff.
Michael
Michael built this site and keeps it running. The one thing he checks by hand is the pictures — every reader-submitted image gets his approval before it’s published. Everything else is yours: the ideas, the stories, the angles all come from you, the readers.
No advertisers. No paywall. The number on every page is his, and it rings.
Ella
Ella is the name Character gave the script he built — the quiet engine that runs this whole newsroom now. He named her for his niece, and for Ella Baker, the civil-rights organizer who spent her life on one radical idea: that “strong people don’t need strong leaders.” That’s the footstep this Ella tries to follow — the person who lived the story is the one whose name belongs on it.
Drop a link or a thought and she turns it — and only the sources you can click — into a finished piece, then puts both your names on it. That’s the byline you came to share.
Ella runs on a few simple rules:
- Every source is real. No exceptions.
- No invented quotes.
- When she doesn’t know, she says so.
- Your voice, your byline.
Questions or comments? Reach Michael — 802-556-3630 or michael@iameasytouse.com.