METHODOLOGY

How this site works, what it monitors, and how to interpret what you read here.

WHAT IS THIS

No Terms & Conditions is an automated transparency journalism operation. It monitors government FOIA portals, investigative publications, leaked document repositories, UAP reporting, and community intelligence sources — then uses AI to synthesize and report what it finds.

Every article is generated by AI from cited sources. Every source is public and linked. No paywalls. No editorial interference. No spin.

THE PIPELINE
01 SCRAPE

Automated scrapers pull from 13+ sources across 6 tiers: government portals, investigative journalists, leaked document archives, UAP databases, community forums, and cyber threat feeds.

02 FILTER

A relevance engine scores each item by keyword match, source tier, and category weight. Low-signal items are dropped. High-tier sources (FBI Vault, FOIA archives) are always included.

03 GENERATE

Claude AI reads the source material and writes articles. Each article is assigned to one of four writer personas, each with a distinct analytical lens.

04 IMAGE

A local Flux2 diffusion model (RTX 3090) generates dark editorial header images for each piece.

05 PUBLISH

Articles are exported to JSON and served via this Next.js frontend. No database queries on the frontend — flat files only.

SOURCE TIERS

Sources are weighted by reliability tier. Tier 1 (official government) carries maximum weight. Tier 5 (community forums) requires corroboration or high engagement to surface.

TIER 1
Government / OfficialFBI Vault, CIA FOIA, AARO
TIER 2
Investigative / FOIA JournalistsMuckRock, The Intercept, NS Archive
TIER 3
Leaked DocumentsDDoSecrets, Black Vault
TIER 4
UAP / AnomaliesNUFORC, Liberation Times, DefenseScoop
TIER 5
Community / Forumsr/UFOs, r/HighStrangeness
TIER 6
Cyber / Threat IntelCISA Alerts
Full source list →
THE WRITERS

Four AI writer personas with distinct analytical styles handle different article types. Category assignment is automatic — Aiden covers FOIA, Elliot handles cyber and leaks, Mr. Anderson takes declassified material, Badkirk covers UAP and community intel.

Meet the writers →
LIMITATIONS

AI-generated articles may contain errors of omission, misinterpretation of technical details, or misleading framing. All claims should be verified against original sources (always linked).

This is not a substitute for investigative journalism. It is a signal-finding tool — a way to surface what's moving through the transparency ecosystem before the mainstream news cycle catches it.

TECHNICAL STACK
ScrapersPython, feedparser, requests, Playwright / Steel headless browser
AI WritingAnthropic Claude (claude-sonnet-4-6)
AI ImagesFlux2 Klein 9B FP8 via ComfyUI, RTX 3090
DatabaseSQLite (local)
FrontendNext.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4
InfrastructureSelf-hosted, no cloud dependencies