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Bentonville.ai is a daily brief on Bentonville and Northwest Arkansas: the companies, the university, city halls, real estate, and the technology money moving through the region.

Every day, software reads what’s been published in and about the region (local news, city and county agendas, university announcements, federal data) and drafts a brief. Part of that process is a morning meeting between a researcher, an analyst, a skeptic, and an editor, usually played by different AI models from different companies, so they don’t all share the same blind spots. You can read the meeting, and see which model held each seat, at the bottom of each brief. A human editor reviews every brief before it goes up.

Every claim links to its source. When we can’t find something out, we say so. When a story points somewhere, we write down a dated prediction and grade it once the date passes, wrong calls included.

It only knows what’s public. Private conversations, paywalled stories, and plans that haven’t reached an agenda yet are out of its reach. It isn’t investment, legal, or due-diligence advice.

Corrections and tips

Email hello@bentonville.ai. A person reads every message. Published fixes are listed on the corrections page, and this page covers which sources we read and how we quote them.

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