LIVE DEMO — LOCAL NEWS PUBLISHERS

The newsroom writes. The AI answers the everything-else.

A local publisher’s phone carries three businesses at once: subscribers with account questions, businesses buying ads, readers with tips. The AI answers every call and chat, 24/7: subscription and delivery questions from your published policies, ad inquiries qualified and booked, tips captured completely for the desk.

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Free personal demo in your inbox in ~2 minutes · no sales call · built for YOUR station

Subscriptions, ads and tips on one board — answered, routed and transcribed while the newsroom reports.

One day with the AI

Three moments from a typical news publishers front office — handled while your team does the human part.

7:15 AM · The missed delivery

A subscriber calls before work about a missed paper. The AI applies your published delivery policy, captures the address and issue, and routes it to circulation — politely, in the reader’s language.

1:30 PM · The obituary call

A funeral home asks about placing an obituary. The AI explains your published process, rates and deadlines exactly, and captures the placement details for your team.

10:05 PM · The tip after deadline

A reader calls about a council decision that smells wrong. The AI captures who, what, where and contact details completely, and routes it to the newsroom — with a transcript.

What it does for you

Subscriber service, absorbed

Delivery, account and access questions answered from your published policies — renewals and changes captured for your team.

Ad revenue, answered

Display, classified, obituary and sponsored inquiries answered from your published rate materials and booked with sales.

The tip line, always open

Every tip captured with full detail and routed by your rules — nothing newsworthy dies in voicemail.

Watch it carry all three phone lines

The demo handles the delivery complaint, the obituary placement and the late-night tip — configured for a local publisher. Your personal version arrives in ~2 minutes, built from your website: your offers, your rates, your desks.

Test your subscribers’ real questions live
Tips routed instantly, logged completely
Flat price — unlimited staff and lines

Asked in your callers’ own words

Real question types from this business — and what the AI does with each. Grounded in YOUR approved knowledge: no source, no claim.

“How much is a digital subscription, and is there a print bundle?”

Quotes your published offers exactly — never an invented discount — and completes the signup steps.

“I want to advertise my restaurant’s Sunday brunch.”

Answers from your published ad options, captures the business and dates, and books the sales call.

“I paused delivery for vacation — did it restart?”

Captures the account details and routes to circulation by your rules — individual accounts are never guessed at.

The sales line rings during the newscast. The advertiser inquiry lands in a shared inbox on Friday night. The listener call goes to a voicemail nobody checks. The Zanus AI front office ANSWERS — phone and chat, in the caller’s language, qualifies the advertiser, books the meeting into a real calendar, and never guesses beyond your approved knowledge.

Questions, answered

Can it discuss our reporting?

No — editorial questions route to your editors by your rules. The AI handles service, sales and capture; the journalism stays human.

Sources need confidentiality.

You control the knowledge and the routing — and for the strictest setups, the same system runs fully on-premises on servers you own.

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This demo is the AI that answers — phone, chat, quotes, bookings. The work INSIDE your news publisher — documents, tasks, procedures, automations — is Back Office AI, specialized for Broadcasting & Media. Most companies run both: one AI answering, one AI executing.

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