Investigative Pitch Evaluatorv0.1.2

An investigations editor receives a 400-page document dump from a state agency and needs to decide within hours whether to assign reporting hours. She uses the skill to build a source-tier evidence map, score the lead against six dimensions, and produce a Greenlight/Develop/Park/Decline verdict with a written rationale for the budget meeting.

A freelancer has a tip about a municipal contractor double-billing school districts but no editor relationship at the target outlet. He uses the skill to convert the tip into an editor-ready pitch packet with an evidence-to-claim map, a public-interest case, and a right-of-reply plan before sending the email.

A local nonprofit investigative outlet receives an anonymous tip about a police department's use of seized asset funds. The intake editor runs the tip through the source-tier rubric and legal/ethics checklist to determine whether the anonymous source alone is load-bearing or whether document corroboration must be secured first.

A reporter must defend a stalled investigation to an editorial board skeptical of its public-interest value. She uses the skill's stage-(d) framing to produce a one-page defense with a rubric score, an accountability decision-maker name, and a why-now news peg.

A podcast production team is deciding which of five listener-submitted tips to develop into a season. The producer uses the pitch evaluator to score originality, evidence strength, and public-interest impact consistently across all five candidates before committing production budget.

Sold as a per-seat or per-newsroom annual license to investigative desks, freelance collectives, and nonprofit newsrooms that need a repeatable triage and pitch-evaluation workflow. The tool replaces ad-hoc editor judgment with a documented rubric that can be audited and shared across a team.

Individual freelancers pay per pitch packet or for a monthly submission allowance, and the platform optionally routes high-scoring pitches to partner editors who pay a small listing or placement fee. Combines creator-tools economics with a B2B editor-side lead-gen fee.

Media law firms, libel insurers, and university journalism programs license the legal/ethics checklist and evidence-map outputs as a documentation layer for pre-publication review. Positions the skill's outputs as an auditable record that a newsroom exercised due diligence on anonymous-source claims.