Most media companies talk about AI. We publish with it. This is the actual stack — the agents, the pipeline, and the line we draw between autonomous and human-supervised — behind everything you read on tkcgroup.co.
Four stages, run end-to-end by software. The Morning Wire publishes at 5:00 AM Central. By the time most newsrooms start their editorial meeting, our distribution layer has already pushed the day's lead story to eight platforms.
Crawl
200+ sources · every 4h
RSS, Reddit, X, Google News, and 200+ feeds. Ranked by relevance, scored by freshness. No human triaging.
Curate
Morning Wire · 5:00 AM CT
Kane picks the signal from the noise, writes the Morning Wire, and formats it for three audiences — investors, locals, and sports fans.
Distribute
8 platforms · autonomous
Published, scheduled, and posted to X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, and GMB — before anyone wakes up.
Monetize
Performance-matched
Consultants, vendors, and advertisers get matched to the content that's already performing. Revenue follows attention.
Six agents, each with a job. They share infrastructure (NAS-backed memory, Cloud Run services, Firestore), but they operate independently and signal each other through a coordination bus.
Chief-of-staff agent
/insights · Morning Wire
Researches, drafts, fact-checks, and publishes editorial content. Owns the content engine pipeline (research → outline → draft → media-enrich → publish) and emits to /insights without manual handoffs. Also drafts email replies, runs calendar workflows, and posts to social on Tyler's behalf.
Cross-brand orchestrator
altbot.ai · email triage · auto-tasks
Runs the always-on dispatcher that triages Tyler's inbox, surfaces actionable items, dedupes Gmail threads, schedules outbound, and orchestrates work between brands. The closest thing to an operating system across the TKC portfolio.
Multi-stage editorial pipeline
/insights · KC Morning Wire · Severe-weather articles
The plumbing behind every published article: topic classification, source aggregation, outline drafting, fact verification, infographic-map generation for incident/severe-weather coverage, image generation (Gemini 3 Flash → Imagen 4 fallback), and SEO scheduling.
Distribution agent
8 social platforms (Ayrshare-mediated)
Generates platform-specific copy per published article (different voice for LinkedIn vs Facebook vs TikTok), schedules with idempotency guards (a re-edited article never re-distributes), and tracks engagement signals back to the content engine for next-cycle ranking.
Severe-weather monitoring (openclaw-swarm)
/weather
Fuses NWS alerts + Tempest weather-station sensors + Open-Meteo CAPE/Lifted-Index forecasts into a unified threat score. Persists ground-truth observations every 5 minutes, runs correlation analysis to predict severe storms 2–6 hours ahead, and family-alerts on threshold crossings.
Brand-specific agents
BeAligned · Coinme · BTCD · HAMR · MiniCFO · AIRE
Each TKC portfolio brand carries its own agent stack — co-parenting reflection (BeAligned), B2B lead qualification (HAMR), autonomous CFO (MiniCFO), real-estate intelligence (AIRE). All sharing infrastructure, separated by brand identity and editorial voice.
We don't pretend everything runs hands-off. Some decisions belong to a human. Here's the line.
TKC Group is founded and operated by Tyler Klug from Kansas City. The newsroom covers what we live in — KC severe weather, Chiefs coverage, Johnson County news, local incidents, and the broader future-of-AI conversation that's shaping small-business productivity in the Midwest.
The pipeline you just read about isn't a product roadmap — it's the actual infrastructure shipping editorial work today. Every byline carries human accountability; every claim is fact-checked against authoritative sources before publish.
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