Every editor-in-chief Kate Lee traces her path from literary agencies and Stripe Press to building a small, AI-literate newsroom. She explains how style guides, agent browsers, and shared editorial systems can raise the floor without surrendering judgment or taste.

Every’s team introduces Proof, a free and open-source collaborative editor built for humans and AI agents to draft, comment, revise and trace the origins of text together. The conversation weighs provenance, creative ownership and the emerging divide between writing meant to be read and writing meant to be processed by machines.

Bolton and Watt’s founders make the case for “AI-durable” companies: operationally complex businesses such as med spas and funeral homes whose core services remain human even as their systems get smarter. They describe using AI to speed research, sharpen customer discovery and raise expectations for teams without mistaking generated output for good work.