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605Buzz

605Buzz — the AI-native South Dakota discovery + civic-data + editorial platform.

Business filings. Meeting agendas. Farm auctions. HS sports scores. Obituaries. State fair. Institutional + social signals in South Dakota, aggregated with AI and verified by a human byline. Waitlist opens now; product launches roll out over the coming months as each vertical comes online.

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The 12 verticals we cover

One place for every institutional and social signal in the state.

  • Business intel

    Permits, licenses, new filings, closings.

  • Events

    Concerts, festivals, powwows, state fair.

  • Auctions

    Farm, livestock, machinery, land, estate.

  • Government

    Town halls, city council, county commission, school board.

  • Public safety

    Road closures, weather, crime blotters.

  • Sports

    SDSU / USD / Augustana / HS football, basketball, wrestling.

  • Real estate

    Property transfers, tax assessments, land sales.

  • Ag

    Livestock reports, commodities, USDA-SD field data.

  • Life events

    Obituaries, marriage records, birth announcements.

  • Tourism

    State parks, hunting/fishing licenses, Sturgis, Rushmore.

  • Legal

    Court dockets (civil + criminal), foreclosures, divorces.

  • News + culture

    Original reporting plus an aggregation index of SD publishers, podcasts, and chamber newsletters — each linked to its source outlet.

Reviewed, corrected in public

Every article carries an approval-tier stamp in its frontmatter — who reviewed, when, and what confirmation gesture they gave. Corrections land at the public corrections ledger with a diff and a timestamp. Retracted articles serve a 410 Gone tombstone pointing at the correction record. The public ledger is the trust artifact, not a cryptographic certificate.

How we handle trust → Corrections ledger →

Join the waitlist

One email when your first vertical goes live. No spam, no share.

We use your email to notify you when a vertical launches. We also record your submission timestamp, your chosen vertical of interest, a truncated IP prefix, and (if present) the origin of the site that referred you — see our privacy notice for the full retention policy and how to request erasure. No resale, no third-party sharing. Unsubscribe from launch emails anytime.

Frequently asked questions

When does 605Buzz launch?
Rolling launch across the coming months. Waitlist subscribers get access to each vertical as it comes online. Business intel is the first vertical targeted for launch; specific dates are aspirational and depend on source-licensing + build readiness.
Is 605Buzz an AI publisher or a newspaper?
Both. AI drafts under structured pipelines; every article carries a human byline before it publishes. The AI aggregates; the human decides. Details: docs/editorial-process-v0.md (public post-launch).
Where does the data come from?
Institutional + social sources across all 12 verticals. Every article cites its sources by ID and links to each source outlet; the working per-source registry is an internal artifact, not a public scraping schedule.
What if you get something wrong?
Corrections propagate promptly per our published corrections policy. Every correction lands at /corrections with a diff (what changed), a timestamp, and a link back to the original article. Retracted articles serve a 410 Gone tombstone that points at the correction record. The public ledger is the trust artifact.
Who's building this?
Solo-founder now. An Editor-in-Chief hire is targeted with an SD-native or SD-diaspora sourcing preference; full-team headcount grows as revenue + hiring readiness allow. Specific timing is aspirational and subject to change.